This DCist has tried to push dance on you people before, and since we apparently never learn from our mistakes, we are doomed to push dance on you again. Yes, this week you have a chance to see some unusual and beautiful forms of dancing, and we recommend that you take advantage of it. We frankly don’t understand the aversion of some people to ballet: what is not enjoyable about watching beautiful people with toned bodies moving about gracefully in diaphanous costumes? True, it’s not exactly like what they do at Camelot, but it’s the same basic premise, just with cultural value.

WATCHING OTHER PEOPLE DANCE:
>> The big event this week is the much-expected appearance of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center Opera House. They will perform a mostly forgotten choreography of the story of Don Quixote, one of our favorite classic books, which happens to be 400 years old this year. Working with music composed especially for him by Nicolas Nabokov, legendary dancer and choreographer George Balanchine created this ballet in 1965 for a 19-year-old dancer in his company. Her name was Roberta Sue Ficker and she had come to New York from Cincinnati. She later changed her name to Suzanne Farrell, and in that memorable and somewhat controversial premiere she was Dulcinea to Balanchine’s Don Quixote. The importance of this revival is seen in the fact that you can find more information in some big preview articles from the New York Times (Toni Bentley, Because Mr. B. Told Me So, June 12), the Washington Times (Jean Battey Lewis, Ideal ‘Quixote,’ possible dream, June 18), and finally the Washington Post (Sarah Kaufman, An Impossible (Or at Least Difficult) Dream, June 19). Seven performances are scheduled from this Wednesday (June 22 at 7:30 p.m.) to this Sunday (June 26 at 7:30 p.m.), at which you could experience a piece of cultural history. Tickets: $29 to 84.