1951. The Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet from London stops in Montreal during their 1951/52 USA and Canada tour. On this occasion Ruth Sorel performs her choreography “Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa” in the ballroom of the Hotel Sheraton Mount-Royal. She wears a hennin – the cone shaped hat with a long veil worn in the middle ages by women of the nobility. She opens her arms to the sides and begins a sequence of six turns. She is turning around her own axis to her right side but simultaneously travels counter clockwise, describing yet another circle in the room. After the sixth turn she stops, facing the upstage left diagonal. The fabric of her long dress is still swinging in a circular motion, while her body pauses for a second. Then she shifts her weight forward onto her right foot and reaches out and up with her arms in the sagittal plane. When she reaches the highest point she sinks down onto her knees, first clasping her hands, then crossing her arms in front of her chest, her head tilted to the right side, an expression on her face that could be full of gratitude or devotion or sorrow.