This Will Almost Certainly Be The Best Story About Synchronized Swimming You'll Read All Day

“In competitive synchronized swimming, it’s about face and arms. As a performer, it’s more about feet. We tell them to imagine that at the end of their feet sticking out of the water is a telescope, and then tell them to make their feet act like they are surprised to be there, little by little, and finally, happy to see each other. We ask them to express happiness and sadness with their feet.”
 — Two-time Olympian Maurizia Cecconi, on training synchronized swimmers for the Cirque du Soleil production, “O,” at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

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Janet Maslin’s, in today’s Arts section, might have him feeling more like he’s wearing

Cruel Shoes.