Chapter 43 Swan Lake

On this day, Xiaodoudou was taken to the Hibiya Auditorium to watch the ballet "Swan Lake", because Xiaodoudou's father wanted to play the violin solo in the dance drama, and another reason was that this dance drama was performed by a very good ballet troupe.It was the first time for Xiaodoudou to watch ballet. Princess Swan wore a sparkling little crown on her head, flying lightly in the air like a real swan (in Xiaodoudou's view, she really flew up).The prince fell in love with the swan princess, so no matter what other women confessed to him, he always danced to express "no".In the end, the two lovers finally danced together, and the music was extremely beautiful, which Xiaodoudou liked very much.After returning home, Xiaodoudou was still thinking about this dance drama and was very moved.Early the next morning, as soon as Xiaodoudou opened her eyes and her hair was still disheveled, she immediately ran to her mother who was busy in the kitchen and said:

"I've decided I'm not going to be a spy anymore, I'm not going to be a publicity artist, I'm not going to be a ticket seller at a station, that's all. I'm going to be a ballerina playing a swan!" Mother was not surprised at all, and said: "yes?" Although Xiaodoudou was watching ballet for the first time, she had often heard from the principal that there was a female dancer named Isadora Duncan in the United States, and she danced very well.Duncan, like Mr. Kobayashi, has been influenced by Dacroze.Of course, Xiao Doudou likes Duncan whom Mr. Xiao Lin likes very much. Even though she has never met Duncan, Xiao Doudou has a feeling of closeness to her.Therefore, in Xiaodoudou's view, wanting to become a dancer is not something difficult to understand.

Coincidentally, there happened to be a good opportunity.At that time, a friend of Mr. Xiaolin came to Ba Xueyuan to teach aerobics. This gentleman had a dance classroom next to the school.So Xiaodoudou's mother asked this gentleman to arrange for Xiaodoudou to go to the dance classroom to learn dance after school.Mom never said to Xiaodoudou, "What should I do?" When Xiaodoudou said, "What do I want to do", mother would say "Okay", and then didn't ask much, but she would take care of the procedures that the children couldn't do. Help children do well in the things they do.

Xiaodoudou looked forward to becoming a Swan Lake dancer one day earlier, so she went to the dance classroom to learn excitedly.However, that gentleman taught differently.In addition to the rhythmic gymnastics learned in Ba Xueyuan, there are also music on the piano or records, while walking around leisurely, saying things like "it's sunny on the mountain".The teacher will suddenly say "shape", and the students will create various poses by themselves and stand still there.When the teacher is "sculpting", he will also shout "Aha" with the students, make "the look of looking up at the sky", or sometimes put his hands on his head like a "painful person", squatting There was no movement on the ground.

But what Xiao Doudou dreams of is a sparkling little crown and a white fluffy dance skirt, not "sunny on the mountain" or "aha". One day, Xiaodoudou plucked up the courage and came to that gentleman.Although the husband is a man, the bangs of his hair are trimmed like a child's flower head, and they are a little curly.Xiaodoudou stretched out her arms and danced like a swan, asking her husband: "Don't we learn to dance like this?" Mr. has an extremely handsome face, with a straight nose, big and deep eyes.He replied: "I don't learn that here."

... After that, Xiaodoudou gradually stopped going to that gentleman's dance class.Although it's fun to walk around barefoot and make all kinds of poses you can imagine without wearing ballet shoes, but Doudou really wants to wear that shiny little crown. When parting, Mr. said: "The swan dance is of course very good, but the dances created by yourself are also very interesting. Can you try to like them?" This gentleman is actually Ishii Mo, the founder of Japanese free dance.The station of the Toyoko Line in this place is called "Jiyugaoka", which was named by Mr. Ishii.Of course, knowing this is something that Doudou will do after he grows up.

However, Mr. Ishii Mo, who was fifty years old at the time, was full of sincere hope to teach the young Doudou "the joy of free dancing".