paul croxson
Lexicographer
Joined: 13 Nov 2006
Posts: 849
Location: southsea
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 Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:57 am Post subject: Ballet and the Services. |
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Being married to a ballet dancer (ex) I probably react somewhat differently to most when Ron Berg writes in his memories of the arrival at langeleben of a ballet dancer.
I recall it well. Incredibly we were formally 'warned ' of his arrival as if he could be tainted with some terrible disease. Ron recalls too him practising his work in the washroom before the rest of us were up and about.
My Wife assures me that the top dancers are fitter than most Olyhmpic standard athletes and when one sees one carrying an 8 stone woman one handed across tha stage I am inclined to agree.
What was really the point was the presumption that he would have been 'Queer', 'gay'not having taken over.
Only an organisation as sick as the Military could make it compulsory to join and then make it illegal to be what you were born to be. One only has to read obitiuaries of several senior military men to realise that their grotesque behaviour was an effort to hide their own dodgy sexuality. I will start the list with Montgomery and Baden Powell.
I think it time that I apologised to the 'dancer' for any offence that I may have caused and to 'Lili' Palmer whom we all persecuted. He told me many years later that his life had been a "living Hell" whilst at Langeleben
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