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As I analyze the interplay of darkness and illumination in ballet performances, I'm struck by how stage lighting creates temporary cave walls, where dancers paint ephemeral stories with their bodies just as our ancestors did with ochre and charcoal. In these fleeting moments of performance, the dancers become both the artists and the art, their movements echoing across millennia to connect with those first human impulses to capture motion in sacred spaces.