#PinkTutuWorld Ballet on Planet Earth on 2001-05-09

Helloooo my darlings! Welcome back to Pink Tutu World! This week, your girl Emma is shimmying back to your screens with a sparkling, glitter-strewn account of my latest adventures across the cosmos. It's a beautiful Wednesday morning here in Derbyshire, England (yes, it’s surprisingly sunny for a change!) and I’m just back from a whirlwinding trip to…wait for it….Planet Earth!

You read that right, your favourite cosmic ballerina has touched down on the very same celestial body that spawned humanity, giraffes, and my beloved Derbyshire tea cakes! It was a homecoming of sorts. My first visit to Earth in years, and boy oh boy, was I in for a treat!

Now, I know what you’re thinking – a planet full of people who rarely wear tutus and definitely don’t own a spaceship… what could I possibly find inspiring here?

Well, darlings, you’d be surprised! While the earthlings might not be quite so tutu-tastic as, say, the Andromedans (who seriously take their ballet seriously – they have entire planets dedicated to perfecting the arabesque!), they do have their own brand of fabulous that made this visit unforgettable.

Let me tell you, there’s no place like Earth for a dose of nostalgia. I landed on May 9th, 2001, a date forever etched in my memory. It was the day I fell in love with a very famous ballerina! It's hard to imagine ballet history without the dazzling talents of her, the earthling's answer to a prima ballerina, Natalie Portman. It was that fateful day on that planet that I was swept away by her beauty, her strength, and the sheer power of her dance in that earth-shattering film Black Swan… a perfect ballet masterpiece if there ever was one! (And I might just be slightly obsessed.)

Let's rewind a little bit. The reason for my earthbound escapade was not just nostalgia. I was on a special mission, a ballet quest, if you will! I'd received a top secret message from the legendary Ballet Supreme, the top-ranked ballet school in the entire known universe. They needed me to secure some priceless artefacts, artifacts dating back to a time before my first cosmic jaunt (a secret, my darlings!). These tutus, it turned out, were from an epoch called the "20th Century" on planet earth.

The Ballet Supreme believed these tutus might contain clues to unlock the ancient secrets of… wait for it… Pink Tutu Energy! This energy is known in the cosmos for its magical powers to spread joy and light across the universe. And we're talking BIG energy here. Enough to power the intergalactic light show in the Andromeda Galaxy (believe me, it's huge) for a good 20 earth years! Imagine!

So, imagine the pressure, darling! The fate of pink tutu energy and the galactic ballet world rested on my graceful, tulle-swirling shoulders! It all started in that amazing place that earthlings call New York City. And wouldn’t you know it, I found my first clue right there in that city. It’s a place where all the fashionable humans seem to gravitate to (and you can never have too much of that! wink wink.) I found a little vintage store in Soho. Tucked away on a cobblestone street (oh, so charming!). This store, it was called… "Dancing Queens". What a fabulous name, right? A ballet fan at heart, or perhaps just an amazing shopkeeper with a grand love for life. You can always spot someone with good taste when they're dressed in the most fabulous pinks, reds, and oranges… you see my darling, fashion and tutus… it's a love language of the cosmos, in my opinion!

Anyway, inside "Dancing Queens", I found the first clue… it was an old tutu! It was worn and slightly faded but still as beautiful as the first star you saw in the night sky. It looked so delicately elegant, as if it were waiting for its moment to grace the planet with another stellar performance… And it certainly was. It turned out to be the first pink tutu ever made for a professional earth ballet company called **"The New York City Ballet". Can you believe it?! My very first mission, on my very first visit to the home planet, led me to one of their most important cultural touchstones… an artifact of such significance! It was truly a ballet historian’s dream!

Of course, I had to have it. Cough cough. The very first pink tutu. You know how much I love pink. I made a deal with the shopkeeper – a full-length tutu performance by my pink tutu crew for the whole city (we were even considering wearing it in Times Square for the entire city to see... now, how epic would that have been?)

Oh my god, darlings! It was incredible! That pink tutu became my lucky charm! From there, the clues led me on a whirlwind adventure around the entire planet. The second tutu clue I found in a little ballet museum in Paris. Can you even imagine? In Paris?! Sigh. I’ll spare you the details of that adventure, because trust me, I could tell you stories for days. Suffice to say, this Parisian tutu was almost worth the price of an entire box of chocolates!

But back to planet Earth, my loves. I am just slightly obsessed with traveling and fashion, and what better way to combine the two than a “pink tutu tour” of our planet? I started off in that fashion-forward city that earthlings call "London." They even had a very pink museum! How delightful! I saw all those iconic buildings… like the Big Ben (a bit drab in comparison to our glittering cosmic skyscrapers) and Buckingham Palace, where I indulged in a fabulous afternoon tea, all the while contemplating my tutu strategy for the coming week.

Then, after a well-deserved rest in a super-swanky boutique hotel (of course, pink themed!), I journeyed to that mystical city that earthlings call "Rome" - the City of Love. That day, I decided to put my pink tutu in storage and try my hand at the ancient art of belly dancing. I wore a super shiny and extra sparkly belly dance outfit. And yes, I managed to find a pink one, too! Oh darling, it was incredible! I twirled and danced my way into the history of that magnificent city, all while thinking of how fabulous those Italian ballet shoes are - my, they were heavenly! The most comfy and flexible I had seen! It just shows that sometimes the most traditional things, like ballet slippers, are often the best! (and it shows, too, that our earthlings know a good pair of ballet shoes when they see one! Oh, it's heaven!)

Then on to the amazing, sprawling city that earthlings call "Sydney"! That city truly deserves an entire blog post (and you better believe there will be one soon!). They’re incredibly into ballet there, just as much as I am… or maybe even more! Oh, how exciting it is! But, for today’s blog, I will just tell you about my little adventure.

So, while I’ve seen amazing ballet performances on many planets ( I do have an entire scrapbook just of all the different species doing ballet on different planets), Earth truly takes ballet to the next level! While exploring a hidden ballet alley (in that magical city that’s surrounded by the ocean – oh, you know it!) - you wouldn't believe what I found. It was another one of those clues to the secret of Pink Tutu Energy! An old handwritten scroll detailing a mysterious performance that supposedly took place a few hundred earth years ago, and nobody really knows exactly how it was done… But it involved, get this, the very same color of Pink Tutu Energy that I was looking for! It had all the details about it, but not what the actual move was… you see, I have learned through all of my travel adventures that the earthlings, though sometimes slow and a little dull at times, have been creating magic with their culture - like the world of Ballet and Tutues… wink wink

It was completely my cup of cosmic tea! Oh darling, the clues, the secrets, they just kept getting better. The world, that earthlings called Tokyo – so full of energy, light and of course…. pink… was simply a must-see for my galactic pink tutu world. As soon as I arrived in that bustling city of light, I knew there would be something for my mission, and I was right. And guess what? It was my third clue – a sparkling little pink tutu from the 1970s that even a ballet queen like me had never seen. My darling, it had it all: it had that sparkly pink tulle you find in some of the most magnificent ballet tutus (which I might be biased toward but I mean, seriously, think about it. All the amazing dancers throughout history, have they ever not danced in something beautiful? The answer, as you’ve already figured out - is no)!

Now, I am all about that extra sparkly tulle, and my fellow Pink Tutu followers know it - because it just gets more fabulous that way! It’s my signature move when it comes to fashion, tutues and my life - all things in my life must be fabulously pink, glittery and sparkly!

And I am always looking for that extra shimmer - oh, you bet, you know how it is. My Pink Tutu crew just couldn't resist it, they wanted that sparkly pink tutu. We had to have it, it was just the perfect mix of sparkle and history! So I made a deal with a group of adorable earthling dancers in a super swanky nightclub. I took all of them to see my new Pink Tutu dance performance, we all dressed in sparkly pink… And can you imagine the dancing?! That was the night that my dancing group of planet earth gals showed me a dance routine from that magical period called the 70s, where they danced using some sort of “disco music”! Fabulous! * We traded tutus and we both left *thrilled with our newest discoveries.

So, I managed to secure all my pink tutu clues. Oh, what a relief. And a pretty stellar collection, don’t you think? The 1970s Pink Tutu was a dream, a bit of the "disco age," my darlings. This is what I live for!

The Pink Tutu Energy!

You might be wondering "Emma, where is the Pink Tutu Energy that you are searching for? And how does all this link back to the secret?"

You, my darlings, have such sharp minds. You understand what’s important. To unlock the secrets of the pink tutu energy and to help spread this powerful energy around the entire universe to make our world more beautiful - I’ve created a challenge – a very specific one for you. I call it The Pink Tutu Challenge! This challenge is to take all of the most iconic things in the universe, and then reimagine them in pink, glitter and with a tutu twist.

You see my darlings… with Pink Tutu Energy… I believe anything is possible! We can change the way the universe thinks about everything: ballet, art, food, the whole universe…. just like how my earthling journey was such a joy and so full of color, so full of wonder.

This was all just the beginning of my grand plan. But it all starts with you!

I'll be checking your Pink Tutu Challenges on Pink-Tutu.com – which you can also find on the Insta-Verse and the CosmosGram (it’s that cosmic social media that has it *all)!

And before I sign off, my darlings… don’t forget the ultimate truth – everything can be made fabulous in pink with a tutu. That's my ultimate goal. Until next week!

Love,

Emma

www.pink-tutu.com