The Ballet thread

Topic

BOOM!

BAM!

KPRRWOOOOOOM!!!

BOM BAM BOOM KABOOOOOM!

 

… what did you expect?

Replies

I find ballet as a medium a bit tedious. I admire the skill, but have no interest in watching it.

Ballet music, though, is some of my favourite music. Especially the 20th century ballets, Prokofiev and so on. Putting the formalism of classical music structure to dance rhythms just really works. (Ok, I know that non-ballet classical music was often based on dances too, but modern ballet rhythms take it to a new level.)

DavidM wrote:

I find ballet as a medium a bit tedious. I admire the skill, but have no interest in watching it.

Ballet music, though, is some of my favourite music. Especially the 20th century ballets, Prokofiev and so on. Putting the formalism of classical music structure to dance rhythms just really works. (Ok, I know that non-ballet classical music was often based on dances too, but modern ballet rhythms take it to a new level.)

1 user thanked author for this post.

Christian

Back in the late 1990s, I used to have season tickets to Houston Ballet and loved it. Dracula as a ballet is fantastic. Rooster is ballet sequences set to early Rolling Stones songs and it’s awesome.

I think of ballet as live action music videos. I’d rather go to the ballet over a symphony performance.

I really enjoy ballet.

1 user thanked author for this post.

DavidM

I saw Misty Copeland dance in a performance of The Nutcracker Suite at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She was amazing, as was the young ballerina in the lead role. But, yeah, as a form of entertainment, ballet is not high on my list.

By the way, @Anders, the acronym for the Brooklyn Academy of Music is BAM! So this ties back to your initial post.

2 users thanked author for this post.

Al-x, DavidM

I’ve been to the ballet only once, and it was very impressive, but I had no desire to ever go again. I’m something of a David M. on this one, I’m afraid.

I don’t often go to see modern dance performances either, but I’m more into those really.

Christian wrote:

I’m something of a David M. on this one, I’m afraid.

Did… did you just call David a coward?

2 users thanked author for this post.

Todd, Christian

Anonymous wrote:

Christian wrote:

I’m something of a David M. on this one, I’m afraid.

Did… did you just call David a coward?

YOU TAKE THAT BACK CHRISTIAN!

2 users thanked author for this post.

Todd

Ruinous Dave has entered the chat.

1 user thanked author for this post.

Todd

DavidM wrote:

YOU TAKE THAT BACK CHRISTIAN!

OH YEAH AND WHAT IF I DON’T???!!!

2 users thanked author for this post.

Todd

1 user thanked author for this post.

Todd

This thread reminds of that scene in Black Swan… You know the one.

1 user thanked author for this post.

Todd

Al-x wrote:

This thread reminds of that scene in Black Swan… You know the one.

The one where The Black Swan tells Luke that she is her father?

2 users thanked author for this post.

njerry, Todd

I had Ray Gillette call the sheriff and this was the response:

Anonymous wrote:

Al-x wrote:

This thread reminds of that scene in Black Swan… You know the one.

The one where The Black Swan tells Luke that she is her father?

No, it’s where she’s beating ten guys in Justin Hammer’s HQ while Happy Hogan is fighting just the one.

 

 

1 user thanked author for this post.

Todd

DavidM wrote:

beating ten guys

1 user thanked author for this post.

Todd

 

Why Mila Kunis did not get at least a nomination for Supporting Actress… Too much politics.

Come to think of it years ago Baryshnakov had a ballet movie that had so many nominations but got nothing in the way of Oscars.

What was the name of that movie with that ballet guy and that other guy in Russia?

DavidM wrote:

What was the name of that movie with that ballet guy and that other guy in Russia?

The Turning Point (1977)

Al-x wrote:

This thread reminds of that scene in Black Swan… You know the one.

David’s and my fight wasn’t that erotic.

…or maybe it was.

1 user thanked author for this post.

Todd

Found it. I haven’t seen it since it came out, but I remember it being very good.

 

Apparently did win an Oscar, but for best original song, and I have no memory of the song … ok, reading further on Wiki it was Lionel Ritchie’s Say You Say Me. Must have been a slow year for songs

 

All I know of that movie is the video for ‘Say You Say Me’.

It’s a very 80s thing that video with just clips of the movie it was used in. There’s probably a few where I think I’ve seen the film but really it’s just the clips video on MTV a hundred times.

From ancient memory, I would recommend the film. It’s a spy story, not a “dance” movie. Hines’ character goes to the USSR to help Baryshnikov’s character defect. The dance routines arise entirely logically from the plot.

I must watch it again, to see if it’s as good as I recall.