Boys in Whites in Formation, Antique British RPPC ken goldstrom School dance

School dance

was just too charming to pass by

and satisfyingly heavy--handy

1st half 19th c

I don't think these are very old

Boys in Whites in Formation, Antique British RPPC ken goldstrom School danceQuite a formation! I especially love the sort of X created at the bottom by one boy in a back bend and the other with body suspended in an arch from the beams above him. Seemed quite celebratory when I found it, a expression of the power and creativity of a collective to form something larger, but now, looking at the coach or instructor standing there at center behind them, it feels a bit Triumph of the Will esque, and so, perhaps even more resonant,