context1: In this production it was extremely well crafted from somewhat standard material. The interpretation by the two principals had an air of <strong>confidence</strong>, and with their excellent dancing it would be not look out of place on any of the world’s great opera house stages. Leung grew in <strong>self</strong>-assurance and skill throughout the ballet from her initial entrance in Act I, and performed this final duet with radiance.
context2: Well, once I got rid of religion, then my spiritual <strong>self</strong>, my identity, my fears, my strengths, my <strong>confidence</strong>, everything, everything, became much more realistic. No longer was I relating to heavens and hells, goods and evils and spooky stories and mortal and venial [sic] sins. I became what I am - an animal, a human animal.