Ballet
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- DavidFelt
Went to the ballet last night for the first time ever, i was a bit doubtfull before hand but I REALLY enjoyed it, it was really really good.
Just wondering if anyone else has ever been??? What your opinions are on it?
Lets have a bit of culture on NT!
- vespa0
haha a bit of culture on nt, you'll be lucky! unless it's the culture growing on some bloke's crusty pants you won't get much of a discussion!
good idea tho, i haven't been for a long time.
i did ballet for 11 years, but my brother got to do martial arts and i was always jealous, grr.
- kelpie0
I work for the Ballet some times, but have never gone. Some of the stuff they've been doing up here has sounded pretty cool though, Aphex soundtracks etc, but I always miss the freebies.
Shocking amount of cash they get from't government though, bloody artsy fartsy spongers...
- stem0
Maybe that's the problem with the ballet - the fact that their money is handed to them.
Maybe if they didn't have it so easy, maybe they would work at finding a new (less cultured) audeince.
Did anyone see the programme where the balet girl learn't how to be a fly girl?
Adapt or Die!
- vespa0
i disagree stem. why should ballet adapt into yet another mtv influenced form of CultureLite™?
There are plenty of forms of dance that have adapted from ballet, contemporary dance is incredibly strong but it doesn't mean classical should be killed.
There's still a place in the world for classical music, isn't there? not everyone listens to it, but it's important that we can learn from it.
- kelpie0
Big up the ballet, they're good peeps. It's teh opera I hate, wankers every one of them.
- stem0
Yes, 'culture' is important...
And the last thing we want is a total mtv influenced form of CultureLite™?
Classical music however, has an audience which is willing to pay out of it's own pocket which ensures it's survival and doesn't have to ask for handouts.
- ********0
Ballet is cool, but don't ever date a ballet dancer. Sure they're hot, but they're nuts. Really.
- paraselene0
i go to the ballet whenever i'm back in new york. and i go to the opera in san francisco. and the theatre here. that's wacko jacko how i seem to have this innate categorisation process whereby i think you do certain things in certain cities. kinda gross, really.
- stem0
vespa - Iguess it's a bit like this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/pro…
Yes it's good if these buildings can be saved, but who foots the bill?
A 'use' has to be found the make them into a sustainable business to enable the building to survive on it's own merits.
- ********0
i go to the ballet whenever i'm back in new york. and i go to the opera in san francisco. and the theatre here. that's wacko jacko how i seem to have this innate categorisation process whereby i think you do certain things in certain cities. kinda gross, really.
paraselene
(May 12 05, 03:51)I get that way with kebabs, only ever eat them in Zürich... not that it has much to do with Ballet, or indeed any other dance (well unlessyou eat 5 of them in one evening, then you dance a funny way the next day )
- stem0
MX_OnD - is that doner or shish?
- paraselene0
for my money mx is a doner man, non?
- ********0
Dönner macht schöner.
- paraselene0
ha! see what i'm like? a goddamn divination rod, me.
- ********0
*ducks as para turns round rod in hand...
- paraselene0
*grimace
round rod in hand?
are you trying to start something?
and in the ballet thread, no less?
tsk.
- kelpie0
Ballet is cool, but don't ever date a ballet dancer. Sure they're hot, but they're nuts. Really.
TheTick
(May 12 05, 03:48)You can tell us the story, please don't hold back.
- jeneraa0
SF Opera rocks! :^)
I got to hang out with the ballet dancers from next door at the last one I went to.
The ballet boys are HOT.
- ********0
ha! see what i'm like? a goddamn divination rod, me.
paraselene
(May 12 05, 04:04)*ducks as para turns round rod in hand...
MX_OnD
(May 12 05, 04:05)Alright granted my orhtography left it slightly ambiguous...
shoulda been
*ducks as para turns round, rod in hand...
MX_OnD
(May 12 05, 04:05)me start something??
The fucken cheek of it!!
- kelpie0
our sales guy once got so trashed at a launch party he ended up receiving a lap dance from one of the male dancers.
Clearly he is yet to live that one down.
dirty feckers.