Thursday, August 17, 2023

Leaping fungus

Saw some mushrooms popping up along the W&OD trail the other day. I liked the pattern they made, so of course I took a photo.

But I cannot see mushrooms on the hoof without thinking of the dancing ones in the Nutcracker Suite part of Fantasia. So I went to YouTube to watch them again and was startled by the racist trope. (It’s been decades since I last saw the film.)

However, it turns out that this particular segment is “The Chinese Dance”; here’s what it looks like as choreographed by the Mariinsky Ballet:

So I’ll stand down.

 

 

 

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