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[michaeldgeorge]

"The first time I walked out and took a seat on the Met stage, with my pens and my paper balanced on my lap and the sharp pangs of those I had lost and all that I had abandoned reverberating within me, I didn’t know the first thing about drawing the human figure. I didn’t know anything about the dancers, the repertoire, the traditions or the way the chandeliers at The Met rise before every performance. But I did know about trying to make something lasting out of a sad story. It was here, watching the dancers of American Ballet Theatre with an empty page before me, I grew to trust the leap into the unknown."

http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/just-drawn-that-way/