Although I enjoy watching people dance (yes, I've been counting down to the So You Think You Can Dance season premiere next week), I hadn't ever been interested in paying to see a live ballet. Until I heard that the Delaware Dance Alliance was performing a Pirates of the Caribbean ballet! Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl is one of my family's favorite movies so I pillaged some coins from my bank account and took my parents to see it at the Schwartz Center in Dover for Mother's Day last weekend. The artistic director did a fantastic job of conveying the story through movement instead of words. The choreography was beautiful. Several of the dancers had combat training, and their skills showed during the exciting sword fights. I was also impressed with how younger dancers were incorporated into the production - some played a pack of sea gulls out on the ocean, and others as the gold coins in the Isla del Muerta cave. My favorite was the cute little ...