Good points, Ballet fan, and thank you for posting.
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Seeing the Ultimate Interpretation and Never Going Back
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Helene
, Sep 01 2009 09:57 AM
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Posted 25 July 2012 - 12:29 AM
I'm sympathetic to all the various feelings expressed in this thread; but I'd like just to add the one thought which keeps me from encasing my best theatrical memories in lucite and leaving them on a shelf to gather dust.
How can we, any of us, no matter the breadth of our experience or the depth of our expertise, really know we've seen the ultimate performance of a particular role or work?
Surely there is always the hope that we may yet be astonished by someone who wasn't even born when so-and-so was simply to-die-for thirty years ago; or that even someone we've seen before may deepen her interpretation over time, may discover within herself a precious hint of the numinous.
Why else would we keep on watching anything at all? And if art isn't about hope, what is it about?
How can we, any of us, no matter the breadth of our experience or the depth of our expertise, really know we've seen the ultimate performance of a particular role or work?
Surely there is always the hope that we may yet be astonished by someone who wasn't even born when so-and-so was simply to-die-for thirty years ago; or that even someone we've seen before may deepen her interpretation over time, may discover within herself a precious hint of the numinous.
Why else would we keep on watching anything at all? And if art isn't about hope, what is it about?
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