Ballet, I knew, never gets easier; if anything, it gets harder, for as you advance as a dancer, you develop both higher standards for what counts as excellence and an enhanced ability to evaluate your skills, finding flaws that previously went unnoticed. Just as in Plato’s dialogue the Apology, where Socrates is wise because he knows he is ignorant, it is the capacity to recognize where there is room for improvement that allows expert dancers to reach great heights.
