Hmm, following on from my posting the Take Me To Church by Hozier video, this turned up on facebook. Never really been into ballet that much, but it is an interesting idea.
Maybe it's my aspie incomprehension of body language, but the average ballet is somehow no more meanginful and moving to me than the average gymnastic display
So with this one.
I start off thinking :aww the guy's dejected and depressed , so far so good. But hang on, he must have perked up a bit now cos he's giving us a gymnastic display. Oops no, can't hack it, depressed again,..but only for a second or two, cos its on with the show now. Oh, did I see some sort of imploring gesture just now? Ahh, I dunno, he's just pretending to be a helicopter now. Ah, he just rememberered he's upset. Yeah, i got it, you can go back to your prancing now. No, don't wait for my permission, I wouldn't....and so on until i got bored to tears about 3/4 of the way through and froze him.
Now, I'm almost sure that it's actually a whole lot more subtle and expressive than that, if ypu only have the right cognitive faculties. Isn't it?