Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
waltzing in Swing Time (1936)

I Love to Waltz to honor Martha Graham whose Acrobats of God performance at Cornell inspired me to dance to emulate Fred Astaire swirling Ginger so smoothly & gracefully around the room to feel the joy of a child circling on a carousel horse merrily-go-round to be Rumi's whirling dervish dancing Sufi spins in tune with the universe to celebrate the proton bonding with the electron for fourteen billion years whose dancing created the hydrogen atom and sunshine giving us warmth, light, & life.         — Peter Y. Chou             Mountain View, 3-31-2013 Donna Frankel's Dance 04 Final Exam (3-22-2013) asked "What is your favorite dance? and Why?" Above poem "I Love to Waltz" was my response, on Easter Sunday while walking up Palm Drive.