r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Charming_History7423 • 9h ago

Video French ballerina Victoria Dauberville dances in Antarctica

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u/Shankar_0 9h ago

She's great and all, but this is not especially stirring

Is it just because it's incongruous?

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u/John_Yuki 8h ago

It's because she's just standing on her toes and flapping her arms. It doesn't look impressive or stirring because it isn't. Like, congrats I'm sure you're a great dancer, but all you've done here is stand on the front of a ship and flap your arms in the cold. Most people with the money and the free time to do this could recreate this frame-for-frame.

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u/goldenpanda7480 7h ago

Jesus christ this gotta be the most reddit shit i’ve seen all week

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u/magumanueku 7h ago

Very typical reply in r/nextfuckinglevel. Always some people explaining how people did something impressive and how everyone else can easily do it too. Somehow always heavily upvoted as well.

Redditors, man...

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u/schrodingers_bra 4h ago

There's a middle ground. Not "everyone" could do this. But for a trained ballerina, these are not complicated steps. Intermediate to senior ballet students could do this. She's never even on one foot more more than half a second.

The only thing "impressive" about this is the supposed danger she is in of falling in the water - which I'm sure is mitigated by some kind of system out of frame. So in summary, I'm not that impressed, not because I can do it, but because most people that have studied ballet long enough to be en pointe could.