What's Your Favorite Ballet?

[maureen]

not even a little
it was too acrobatic and not really dance
i would have welcomed the stage pieces (other dancers?) running away in a circle
it was the most static dance piece i've ever seen

[haydnguy]

I watched Giselle again tonight. This time with my wife.

Here's a little clip from the performance we saw. Not the best representation in the world but it's the only one from that performance I could find.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xednZ_Ikoa0"]YouTube - Laëtitia Pujol in Giselle[/ame]


EDIT: I ask my wife what she wants to watch next time and she chose Coppelia.

[Alpha Centauri]

With Christmas around the corner now, I ought to mention the super staging of Nutcracker by Matthew Bourne. Classical dance fans will be in apoplectic fits, but everyone else thought it was a fabulous show which captured the magic - and most importantly, told the story in a way that the classic choreography doesn't do so well.

[ame="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3lPLurd2j9c"]Matthew Bourne - NUTCRACKER![/ame]

[haydnguy]

Yeah, their having a "traditional" nutcracker this weekend here but we can't go.

[Philidor]

Originally Posted by Reiner Torheit

Classical dance fans will be in apoplectic fits

Excellent...

[Alpha Centauri]

Originally Posted by Philidor

Excellent...

You should have read what they wrote about his all-male-cast SWAN LAKE... I was sure there was only one "m" in "brimstone"...

For those within reach of London, Bourne's EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (an officially-licensed deal with Tim Burton) is on at Sadlers Wells currently, and there are even discounted tix available on Lastminute.com... that would make those Scissorhands tickets a "snip", I suppose...

[haydnguy]

Originally Posted by Reiner Torheit

You should have read what they wrote about his all-male-cast SWAN LAKE...

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!

[haydnguy]

by Mr. H. Stone on Amazon

One nice thing about going to the ballet is that the audience is so beautiful. You can tell that everyone there goes regularly to the gym.

When you go to the opera they're all fat and ugly -- all the men look like Mr Toad in The Wind in the Willows, and the women look like Miss Piggy (present company excepted of course)

Is this your experience in The New World?

[Kuhlau]

That's hilarious, haydnguy!

The stereotyping would be even more complete if Mr Stone had gone further and made a remark about all the male dancers being gay.

FK

[Philidor]

I noticed the Proms this year were a mixed bag. Train spotters down the front in dirty T-shits, UKIP tweedsters with fussy mustaches the row behind them, then bespectacled music students clutching Eulenburg scores, but then a sprinkling of pretty girls from minor private schools smoking rollups. It was a good mix.