《舞碼：賣花女》


是多麼可愛的我，穿上舞鞋，旋轉飛舞，劃出飛揚的美麗弧度。

青春的我，青春的夢，盡是安娜‧巴芙洛娃的身影。


那幾乎是個已被遺忘的夢。

我成了柴可夫斯基落跑的天鵝，折了翅，跟不上曲調。


原來，『舞者』就是我小時候的夢想。


努力的學著舞， 努力的想忘了拉筋的痛，

努力的表演，努力的不去在意芭蕾舞鞋內結痂的腳底…


或許，有一天，我終會登上頂峰，那是一個美麗的夢想。

忘了夢遺落在何時？

忘了舞動的翅折斷在何處？

忘了天鵝湖跳躍的動作停格在何方？


卻忘不了，

第一次怯生生的上台，

第一次正式的芭蕾舞課，

第一次穿上表演芭蕾舞服裝的雀躍。


還有忘不了，那雙閃動著亮光的雙眼。

繞了數十年的時光，我記起那初始的悸動。


還能重新開始嗎？

還能重新繼續嗎？

我好想接續那個斷層的夢。


如果英國的John Lowe， 到了88歲還能繼續他的夢。

 
或許，我應該還不算太遲，我應該還是可以。

◎英國Aidan Mcgurran 有關John Lowe 的短聞
88-year-old Ballet Star         By Aidan Mcgurran 12/01/2008  

Superfit John Lowe is to star in a ballet - at the age of 88. 
John only took up the most demanding form of dance aged 79 
and has been picked for his role by a local ballet company. 

The grandfather of 11, who is also a gifted painter and pianist, 
said: "I first began to enjoy ballet when 
I was running a theatre in Somerset 40 years ago." 

To maintain his fitness he hangs from a trapeze each morning 
to increase his muscle power. 

Determined John finally took up ballet after his daughter Alison
became a professional dancer. 
He said: "There is nothing pansy about it. You must be very fit." 

The retired teacher, of Witchford, 
Cambs, will take the role of the woodcarver
 in Prokofiev's The Stoneflower this weekend being staged 
by Ely's Lantern Dance Theatre.

Helen Pettit, its artistic director, said:
 "His stretching and flexibility are amazing and he loves to jump and turn."