This dance, inspired by three Grade 12 Canterbury singers' incredible performance of the hauntingly beautiful "Seal Lullaby," depicts a dancer's dream. Even in remote learning, whether in a four-foot by four-foot space, outside on a chilly spring morning, or in an empty parking garage, dancers dance. Lacking four square feet of space, they will dance in two, or one, or lacking even that, in dreams. It is through the marriage of technology and the imagination that a dancer's will to soar is expressed in the "Seal Lullaby'' with Glen Keane's animation serving as a prosthesis for the dance student's missing part: space.

Drawing on the 'Disney-esque' style of both the music and animation, Melissa's port de bras follows the movement style of traditional Disney animated heroines while she demonstrates runs on demi-pointe in a circular direction on a treacherously slippery floor; grand jeté with no room for a preparatory run; several fouetté turns a la seconde ending in double pirouette; and a solid, balanced posé to arabesque on demi-pointe.

Thank you to all the OCV dancers who showed courage expressing their art form and lifting our spirits. As a teacher whose own teacher continued to do ballet lessons in a secret underground studio in Holland during World War II, it was inspiring to witness dancers continue to leap over the boundaries of space, time, and for some, even faith.

To quote Fauna in Walt Disney's animated Sleeping Beauty,

"Oh, I just love happy endings."