Sallie is an accomplished ballerina, and she was giving a stellar performance as Odette in Swan Lake. She performs Pas de valse, some Pirouettes, then a grand jeté (a stunning leap with splits in the air) and lands on the stage still in splits. Something seems to be wrong. Sallie is making frantic gestures to the stagehands. After she whispers something in a stagehand’s ear, two stagehands push and tug and slide Sallie to the edge of the stage… …where she is able to break the suction.
Sallie is an accomplished ballerina, and she was giving a stellar performance as Odette in Swan Lake. She performs Pas de valse, some Pirouettes, then a grand jeté (a stunning leap with splits in the air) and lands on the stage still in splits.
Something seems to be wrong. Sallie is making frantic gestures to the stagehands. After she whispers something in a stagehand’s ear, two stagehands push and tug and slide Sallie to the edge of the stage…
…where she is able to break the suction.