While I'm sure the Boston Ballet has hundreds of photos to promote its 2013 Nutckacker production, I can't imagine why they chose this one, in which the ballerina appears to have one leg. Now I am sure in their conciet, they believed that anyone seeing the photo would assume that this dancer is so perfectly aligned that her legs are complete together. But since one cannot see a hint of another thigh, another ankle or another foot, one can only imagine that this dancer has only one leg. You would think someone at the company could comment before they used this shot as this year's major publicity picture. Of course it could be a P.T. Barnum type promotion, "Come see the one-legged ballerina!" But I rather doubt that. It's just more proof that even the experts make huge errors in judgement.
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