Ballet of the American Theatre

This was the first ballet I had ever been to in my life and it honestly wasn’t all that great to me. I can completely appreciate it, but I didn’t think it was anything awesome.

The performances were very good in terms of execution and elegance, but I didn’t see anything that I haven’t seen before on TV. As I watched the first performance I was not at all interested in it, I sat there with my face in my palm, hoping for something great or amazing, but I was let down. I didn’t see any amazing moves that caused me to become engaged in the performance, I was bored. Though I could see how perfect their steps were and how polished their ballet was, they performed their techniques with the utmost precision and never missed a beat, which was good, but not enough for me.

The second performance was once again, not really entertaining to me. I watched as the story progressed and the performers danced across the beautiful set, still bored by what I was watching, yet I could appreciate the hard work they did in order to get their ballet to be so on point and precise. I couldn’t really follow the story which brought down the appeal of the ballet because I didn’t know what was going on and who loved who, it was quite a trip. In all honesty the best part of the second performance was seeing the awesome stage and its refined details, but otherwise it wasn’t anything special to me.

The final performance of the night, was my favorite, I thought this performance had more power and I saw some really spectacular techniques that impressed me, but overall it still wasn’t amazing. This performance was the best in my opinion because I saw people spin the air and land on other’s shoulders and continue to dance, it felt stronger to me and I will say that this performance was good. I liked the choice of clothing and the way the set was designed, it was darker and set a more ominous mood. Seeing the performers dance so powerfully was like a light fighting to escape the darkness and that added to this ballet for me.

As for why I didn’t see these performances as outstanding, I think it’s because of the types of performances I’ve been exposed to. I grew up with breakdancing, and I’ve seen people do crazy things like spinning on their heads, backflips onto their backs and spinning, and even people supporting their weight upside down while only on their elbow. I also do parkour and do things that I think are way cooler and more amazing that what they do. Growing up like this has raised my bar for what counts as amazing and on my scale, ballet doesn’t meet the mark for being great. To me it was fairly boring and I wouldn’t go to another ballet based on this experience. But to each his own.