I also participated in the Scavenger Hunt last Thursday. During the hunt, I came across The Boxer, a sculpture by SAIC Alum Richmond Barthe. Barthe modeled The Boxer after Kid Chocolate, a Cuban featherweight in the Thirties. He supposedly was impressed by the boxer's delicacy and recalled the boxer moving 'like a ballet dancer.'
Frederick Wiseman, director of Boxing Gym, a documentary set to open this week at the Siskel Film Center, also describes many of the boxers in his film as delicate and ballet-like. On the surface, boxing seems so rough and masculine while ballet is feminine and graceful. Now I'm realizing boxing is much more of a dance than I had previously thought.
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