The ballerina is not that of the technically perfect 32 fouettès on the toe. Today many dancers have very high level skills. Indeed more than you can imagine compared to the past. But I often notice that the soul is missing, the expressive gesture that comes from the heart. “This is an excerpt from the letter that Carla Fracci had sent, a few days before her death, to some friends and colleagues, unable to attend an event, which Paola Jorio, friend and director of the Ballet School of Dance in Rome, read today in Piazza del Pantheon, on the anniversary of the Hiroshima tragedy, in memory of the great étoile who had accepted to be the godmother of the event. And the divine Fracci continued: “I don’t want to be remembered as a dance icon, I prefer to say that I am a strong, determined woman who has always worked honestly, with great professionalism. For many evenings I have been Juliet, Giselle, Aurora, Chèri, Isadora and many other heroines of romantic ballet – he added – Each time a different role, but after each show I was simply Carla, a normal woman. I’ve never felt like a real star. You don’t live on tiptoe but with your feet on the ground “.
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