I never get tired of listening to Leonard Cohen's song 'Dancing to the end of Love', and viewing the various Youtube videos presenting it.
The song itself, Leonard's low voice and his warm smile, serve as a charming background to dancing couples, most of them approaching the end of love and...life. Sad, and yet so beautiful!
These couples dance "like there's nobody watching them" (famous quote), concentrated only in their dancing moves and partner. The physical dance is an outer expression of the inner feelings of love, kindness and sensitivity towards the partner.
Browsing through the video clips I came upon a pleasant surprise : my favorite male film actor, Al Pacino, in a scene from the movie that brought him the Oscar, 'Scent of a Woman'. Pacino, playing the role of a blind, medically retired army lieutenant, is dancing with the young woman of his choice, to the music of the above song. (By the way, I may be wrong, but as far as I remember, Dancing till the end of Love was not the original song in that movie).
Anyhow, both Leonard Cohen, the singer and song-writer, and Al Pacino the movie actor - are very charismatic, and a delight to our senses.
