On March 2017 I took this photo, and the others will be posted soon. When I looked at my laptop screen, I already knew about a title for this series: “Fun”. These photos were stored for a while, then I posted on my social media and now I decided to post here, on the blog. But, I thought about a new title for it and I baptize this series as “Wacky Ballet” and I will explain why. The first feeling that I had was that the kids were having fun in the rain and it was shaped by the time, and the “fun” got air of daring and subversion. I remember that while I was taking these photos some astonished grownups, sheltered from the rain, were looking in a rejection way. However, the “dancers” were immune from any “critical” view, developing themselves in slippery steps, challenging the eyes and the water, running and spinning in the wild storm, screams of joys that merged with the thunders. Now, this photo makes me think a huge human adventure of immemorial periods, a challenge for force of nature seeking of survival, a satisfaction, an adventure and happiness in a “Wacky Ballet”. Brazil suffers from a lot of difficulties that transcend generations. And here we are, always in a future that never come, sometimes closer, sometimes farther, but never here. But maybe this redeem us: the capacity of creating utopian situations after all, or, using what Cervantes in “Don Quixote” said: “Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”.
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