It was absolutely stunning. Words can’t express how much I loved their performance. – Beckstar44
Absolute perfection! Beautiful, beautiful world class LOVED IT! – balletdoll
I have never seen the ballet before. I am a grown man, and I cried; it was so beautiful. - 411264
It’s Week Seven on So You Think You Can Dance and the nervous contestants stand side stage with wide eyes and clenched teeth. Two dancers will be sent home. The studio is heaving with pressure until, moments before the results are revealed, the tension is broken by the soaring strings and haunting clarinets of Bizet’s iconic score.
The Australian Ballet’s Robert Curran and Leanne Stojmenov enter the stage to perform the breathtaking pas de deux from Divergence. Robert effortlessly weaves Leanne around his body, through his legs, over his shoulders, before lifting her fully above his head. The same audience members who had been waving homemade signs and screaming uncontrollably for their favourite SYTYCD contestants were now cheering just as enthusiastically for Robert and Leanne mid-jeté.
While the dancehall-crunking-to-Missy-Elliot stuff they do on SYTYCD is a massive guilty pleasure of mine, that performance was just breathtaking. The way she spirals around his torso at the 1:20 mark = stunning.
Leanne is sheer perfection. A once in a lifetime experience and I am approaching 70
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