Thursday, April 10, 2008

Ballet

I told you that I liked ballet. Well, I found one I don't like. 1982 version of Romeo and Juliet with Rudolph Nureyev is very bad. I couldn't watch it all. It was very offensive and erotic. Ballet that is old and classic is beautiful. I didn't know he made two versions. I will try to see the older one. This was the only ballet I've seen so far that made me uncomfortable. I don't care much for modern ballet. The Ballets Russes from years ago was outrageous, with crazy costumes, crazy stage sets, etc. I wouldn't like that. I like the real classic style ballet. It shouldn't be offensive. I saw Nureyev's version of Swan Lake and it was good. I don't think he could have performed an erotic ballet in Russia. I just wanted you to be aware that there are two kinds of ballet, the beautiful kind and the other kind.

1 comment:

Shari said...

to me ballet is supposed to be the attempt to rise above the baser things. true beauty in the dance. that stinks that they had to ruin it by bringing it down to the level of dirty dancing.