She had what the Councillor knew, in the technical language of the ballet, as “ballon”, a lightness that is not only the negation of weight, but which actually seems to carry upwards and make for flight, and which is rarely found in thin dancers – as if the matter itself had here become lighter than air, so that the more there is of it the better it works.

She had what the Councillor knew, in the technical language of the ballet, as “ballon”, a lightness that is not only the negation of weight, but which actually seems to carry upwards and make for flight, and which is rarely found in thin dancers – as if the matter itself had here become lighter than air, so that the more there is of it the better it works.

– Karen Blixen –

Seven Gothic Tales

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