Thursday, December 2, 2021

 

Gift of a Dream...

This art form is one of fantasy and real life. The story of dreams, and the dancers of the Real. The two Dancers, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland, the most talented ballet dancers to ever perform in The Nutkcracker Ballet. They give the viewer the dreams of our youth, and the gifts of forever.

I watch this Video every year. The glorious music, the Christmas aura, the lovely visual effects, will last in the history of ballet as the best of the best. It matters not where you live, how young or old you might be, this perfection of the dance will enchant you and give you the gift of dreams...

Many years ago, when I lived in Orange County, I had the privilege of watching a rehearsal with Mikhail Baryshnikov at the Segerstrom Center of Performing Arts. It was the final dress rehearsal of the The Nutkracker Ballet. As I remember, in 1985, Orange County was a place where the cultural life for the Arts was just on the threshold of reality. The excitement was palatable, and the anticipation was so very electric in the air. We were going to be a place where real ballet was to happen.

Will it ever happen in Oceanside this eventful thing of dreams with the Dancers like Baryshnikov? It is a dream much like the vision of having a Museum of Art in Oceanside. That dream came true, can there be a place in our fair City for a Performing Center of Dream? There is a place called El Corazon, a park that could accommodated a Center for the Performing Arts...will our civic leaders be open to the dream? The Museum changed the Face of our Downtown. A performing Arts Center would change the Face of a Park called El Corazon, The Heart, Our Heart.

There are many kinds of Dreams, Children s dreams, Artist dreams, Teacher Dreams, Builders dreams, City Dreams. Our beautiful City on the Hill is a place with infinite possibilities, we have to share these dreams, and help make it happen.

As I watch the Nutcracker tonight, I will once again be the young dreamer of the many things possible...



Ruth Jameson

December 2, 2021