This is a performance shot of me from 2013. Al Green Theatre, Toronto. #BellyDancer #Dancer

People look on ballet dancers as almost superhuman, otherworldly, much like a certain companion species of ours, so perhaps the darling in Pierre Carrier-Belleuse's "Young Ballerina Holding A Black Cat" has good reason to be drawn to her little friend...

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