Thank you so much for your kind words. It's fun that it felt like a portrait, that was essentially exactly what I wanted it to be. I tried to capture the vastness of the experience I had when I first saw Ravel's Boléro being performed. The main dancer left me anxious in a way that was so pleasant that I felt empty when it had ended. Even ages later I can hear the music from that performance almost like a hallucination whenever I remember it.

I think I failed though. Now in hindsight I think that I'm not mature enough in my writing to truly capture it yet.