Dolores Lehtinen

THANK you for your reviews. I was trying to figure out how to tell others about this movie/series, but it created a lot of emotions and memories for me too. I just want everyone to know about this movie and to take time to watch the entire series. The translator did a great job making sure all of us English speaking people could understand all of it. I really appreciated that! I was told from a young age that ballet was in my blood. I was not able to take dance lessons until I was 11 year old. I started, and then only a few months later I had to quite due to a heart disease called Rheumatic fever. It was two years later before I could attempt finding my dream. I had some great opportunities included in my “ballet” life, including having a wonderful dance Master who had been a professional ballet dancer with the San Francisco Ballet. I lived in a small timber town; and why someone as gifted as he was, chose to move to this small town and start a ballet school I leave only to a miracle that allowed me to have the career I enjoyed for 30+ years of my life. My greatest love was to teach ballet. I had no desire to become professional. I had the opportunity to teach children and adults. A good number of my little ballerinas started classes with me at age four and were still with me through high school. This movie brought me back to those days of dance and said so much to my heart about what it was like to have such a dream and to have such opportunities in the world of ballet. I taught ballet starting as a teenager in the 60s and after graduation from high school; I spent time in New York studying at the School of American Ballet. My purpose was to experience the professional side of ballet in order to take my students to a professional level. My goal with all of my students was to teach them to believe in themselves, find their gift whether it was in ballet or any other profession; to enjoy classical music and to value all of the hard, physical work it takes to dance ballet. This movie was like reading my emotions and my love, desire and understanding of whom I was and who I became. I had the honor of meeting my favorite ballerina, Margot Fonteyn and her partner Rudolf Nureyev and to watch them taking class at SAB. Then to watch their performances while in New York. I am not sure this is what you were looking for in a review… but I would encourage everyone, ballet or classical music lover or NOT to enjoy the glimpse into this world of Ballet and to understand all of the messages it shared. I really could not have said it better!