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Classical ballet mime gestures rely on strict vocabularies
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When the lead dancer violently points at her ring finger and swoons, she is not just wildly improvising emotion. Classical ballet utilizes a rigid, deeply standardized vocabulary of mime gestures to convey complex plot points entirely without words. If you do not know the very specific dictionary of hand waving, the tragic love story just looks like a weird traffic signal.
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