Comments | scourgeotheseas: Suckage at the Kennedy Center.

scourgeotheseas

Suckage at the Kennedy Center.

Jan 28, 2008 22:12

Hey, emzebel (and anyone else who cares)! We saw the Kirov Ballet doing La Bayadère, and it was NOT GOOD ( Read more... )

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emzebel January 29 2008, 15:30:26 UTC

Wow. That seriously sucks. Sorry it was such a sucky time. :(

scourgeotheseas January 30 2008, 02:31:06 UTC

But it was super nice to have lunch with you, and a walk around the Center. I'd really like to meet up again sometime soon.

La Bayadere webcowgirl January 29 2008, 19:49:38 UTC

I saw La Bayadere this summer, the Bolshoi version. I was able to overlook the cultural moronicness of the show, because it's all this 19th century "orientalism" thing where they didn't know anything about the East, really, and just thought of it all as one big jumble, but they were excited by it all and its newness and wanted to reflect it in their shows. Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shinto, it was all just one big pile of "them what is not Christian European folk." So when I see a 19th century show about an Eastern culture (The Mikado, Madame Butterfly, Turandot, Le Corsaire, Lakme), I just have a little laugh about their ignorance, and enjoy the art as it is - a fantasy about a culture they know nothing about any more than Shakespeare knew about fairies when he wrote "Midsummer Night's Dream."

I loved La Bayadere although I was having a hard time dealing with the fact it just wasn't any real Asian culture - I tried to make things match up and just had to finally give up and figure it was more likely drawing for Thailand than ( ... )

Re: La Bayadere scourgeotheseas January 30 2008, 02:34:35 UTC

I see your point, but this was just too painful to be believed. I did like the dance of the golden idol (but case in point, ours slipped twice while doing the "landing on the knee" bit), and we didn't have the distraction of little black kids running around.