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Brooke

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  1. I almost hate to add my point here because I'm afraid of the repercussions...........dare I say that some Balanchine ballets do not have stories to this group? Concerto Barocco, for example....... no story, you've got your first violin and your second violin backed up by the rest of the orchestra (8 corps. girls)........no story, just a physical representation of the music...... that's what is so brilliant about a lot of Balanchine's works - there is no "story" - it's music in motion...... As for soul...no one who has seen the melancholic variation of Four Temperaments done well can say that Balanchine doesn't give the dancers an opportunity to put themselves into his works........ I think the story ballets are easier for the general public to accept - it's cut and dry - you know how you're supposed to feel at the end of Swan Lake - "oh how terrible, two lovers forever separated by circumstance.....tragic"....... Abstract is defined in Webster's dictionary as " not concrete; that which does not reproduce the recognizable".......isn't that the point of art? To make you think.........make you question why a performance evoked certain feelings in you? To ask yourself why you feel moved even though nobody told you to feel that way?.............. just some thoughts........
  2. also...look for a new movie coming out in the theaters this summer - it was filmed last year in New York and stars some current dancers from ABT and NYCB........should be interesting.......
  3. Yes Jeannie - that's what I was talking about - i've seen Miami City Ballet perform at several of their venues, and it seems that in some cities where parking and traffic leaving a performance (West Palm Beach) is heavy, the audience members leave as soon as the curtain drops on the end of the ballet! Would it kill them to stay and show their appreciation and get home 15 minutes later? I appreciate the four hour drive and all of that, but what about the 6 hour rehersal days the dancers are putting in? They're not doing it for the money you know!!!
  4. Has anyone else noticed that a good number of the audience gets up to leave before the bows are over? Does anyone else think it is incredibly rude to head for the car while the dancers are still taking their bows?What is wrong with these people?!!!?
  5. Depends on the choreography! I was asked to do Flower Festival a couple of years ago in France - I had performed it here a few times and it was SO much easier on the raked stage!! You barely have to jump to pointe the bottom foot! There is a series of turns in the female variation that require your weight to be forward - no problem on a raked stage! You'll notice that most of the'old' choreography requires men to do great leaping variations from upstage to down, and then walk back upstage to do it again.......much easier to jump going downhill than up! Although it took a few tries to find my balance in pirouetttes, I would much rather do Flower Festival on the raked stage it was choreographed for! Balanchine on the other hand...........
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