On Beauty

Yesterday beauty prevailed as the finalists in the exquisite Dancing Classrooms Philly took the stage at the Merriam Theater. They wore scarves for skirts and sequins on their faces, glittered shoes and borrowed suits, flowers in their hair, red lips, gentlemanly expressions, and when the music played they danced.

Some of them take home gold medals, some of them silver or bronze, and maybe they will wear them about their necks for a day or slip them inside a jewelry box or over the knob of a door, or perhaps there is already a medal hanging from the bough of a dancer's Christmas tree. But we all know that this was never about winning or losing. It was always about the embrace. About the way we touch one another.