Date: Monday, 15 December 2008 11:13 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
The sole exception, eh? *sigh*

I love ballet, but I suppose, only *some* ballets. Never could bear the Nutcracker, nor for that matter Manon. But, I don't entirely agree that it's only beautiful when you ignore the strained positions etc; I think that does depend on the production and the dancers. I saw Darcey Bussell once and she was utterly unreal - no sign of strain at all - fluid, precise, amazingly graceful. Similarly, not all ballets are full of weird stuff. I like abstract ballets (Balanchine etc) and some of the more classical ones - Romeo & Juliet never fails to make me cry, although I am not a fan of the actual story - but I get very easily irritated when there's too much of the weird gender politics, or for that matter weird choreography that makes no sense.

Overstatement, well yes, but no worse than opera...

scroob
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