Monday: rehearsal for Swan Lake. Saturday: wins a West Coast Swing championship. Nobody in her ballet company believed her — until they watched the video. 🩰🕺 #WestCoastSwing #ChantellePianetta #Ballet #SwingDance #CrossTraining
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In the world of professional ballet, improvisation is practically a foreign concept. Ballets are set. Positions are fixed. Every performance reproduces a choreographic text that might be a century old. The body is trained to repeat, to refine, to perfect — not to surrender to the unknown.
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Chantelle Pianetta spent years training and performing as a ballet soloist with professional companies in California. Then she discovered West Coast Swing — a dance built entirely on the principle that the choreography is created in real time between two strangers.
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