Agree, beautifully spoken, Yasmine. Any tradition that involves kindness, compassion, and giving should be preserved forever. And tradition in the performing arts must be preserved too, valued right alongside the bold experiments that create new vistas for performing artists and their audiences. On that note, I was in a hip hop dance studio not long ago, rehearsing for shows. Though I generally find the energy and ambience there annoying, one day I noticed some young teens watching a Debbie Reynolds dance number from one of her movies. I was very happy to see that they were enthralled by what they were watching, and very happy that the studio management provided the video for them to watch. Debbie, Gene, Fred, Cyd, even Misha now, are also part of the great dance tradition, along with traditional form ME dance, that must always be preserved.
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