mildly irrelevant to original discussion starting question, but, mildly interesting to me are the different applause customs, depending ..... A mildly educated audience of classical music would not dare applaud until the conductor's baton comes down at the very end. Even then - I believe the greatest accolade is the occasional complete awed silence that will preceed roaring applause at the end of a truly exceptional performance. Unlike, say - jazz - where each soloist gets applause.
I'm not a particularly well versed dance audience member, but I do get bugged when there is applause, applause, applause after every "trick" as if we are viewing an athletic competition rather than a dance. And then, as I think about it, generally for modern dance, applause would wait for the end, so as not to break up the composition and spoil it.
So, is the dance world backwards to the music world???
(I seemed to be fixated on "mild." Time to mildly drift off to sleep, I guess).
