Saturday, May 31, 2014

Elegant Ballroom Street Dancers

Elegant Ballroom Street Dancers
on a midnight street in Trieste, Italy
on June 1, 2014 at 12:15 am, sketched on June 1, 2014
6" x 4", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.
Strathmore cold press archival watercolor paper
unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
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Elegant Sensuous Street Dancers
by Bruce McMillan,© 2014 

On a summer night with summer warmth 
after afternoon raindrops have washed
the town clean, the streets of Trieste are
full with happy people, all ages
long into the night; it's a party.
On one black macadam street autos 
are replaced with midnight dancers, such
elegant and sensuous ballroom
dancers, couples twirling and circling
a small hill of their lady dancer's
purses. Round and around they go as
beautiful dance music cascades down
from the Radio Punto Zero
building. The crowd encircling the
dancers is enthralled and envious
of their smooth fluid movement and their
open passion while the music plays,
lulling the crowd into a dance of
the mind with these passionate couples.

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