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Thanks, Drew!

I'm not terribly fluent in ballet grammar yet, so I might have to take pointers from the more knowledgeable folks here. But whatever the language used to describe it, to me ballet is a kind of beauty unmatched by any other art form.

Also, some of my favorite ballets: The Rite of Spring (Nijinsky), The Rite of Spring (Possokhov), Glass Pieces (sorry, got it mixed up with another Glass composition), Borderlands (McGregor), Guide to Strange Places (Ashley Page).

I'm usually not one to abide by sacred cows, but seeing that Lorena Feijoo's signature performances were in classics like Don Quixote, I feel like I've been shortchanging myself. This season I actually got alerted to some flash sales which would've been the perfect time to give it a shot. Ah well, there's always next season.

Incidentally, I've also danced ballroom, swing, and hip hop.

Hi everyone! If you asked me 10 years ago what my opinion of ballet was, I'd say that it was stuffy and boring. But then I discovered Le Sacre du Printemps (both the ballet and the score) and have since gone to at least one show every season at SFB for about 5 years now. (I even tried ballet classes for a year -- alas, they did not take.)

My tastes are definitely centered around contemporary ballet (Wayne McGregor especially), and of the 20th century greats I'd take Jerome Robbins over Balanchine any day (Glassworks is amazing). Frankenstein is the only full-length story ballet that I've seen, which I quite liked, but at some point I want to try out a classic story ballet, and would certainly appreciate suggestions on which I should watch out for!

Finally, I've been blogging my impressions into the void, and definitely look forward to gabbing about it with other people.