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| re: Kwestions about curtain calls At The Ballet | |
| Posted by: lonlad 09:00 am EST 02/09/18 | |
| In reply to: Kwestions about curtain calls At The Ballet - bmc 12:26 am EST 02/09/18 | |
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| "Kwestions" ??? Is this some new hipster argot? | |
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| re: Kwestions about curtain calls At The Ballet | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 11:38 am EST 02/09/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Kwestions about curtain calls At The Ballet - lonlad 09:00 am EST 02/09/18 | |
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| A 5 decade ballet goer, one gets used to the ballet curtain call traditions. The most egregious of which is that most companies, at the end of a ballet, will continue to take company and individual bows over and over and over as long as more than one person is applauding. I find it somehow endearing. | |
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| re: Kwestions about curtain calls At The Ballet | |
| Last Edit: bmc 12:18 pm EST 02/09/18 | |
| Posted by: bmc 12:17 pm EST 02/09/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Kwestions about curtain calls At The Ballet - NewtonUK 11:38 am EST 02/09/18 | |
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| The kwestions was just a desperate desire to be noticed.... The curtain calls were not 'milked'> I would happily have kept on applauding... One thing I noticed this ABT visit ,as well as the last one, was,more that at the opera(which is what I usually see at the Detroit Opera House) a large contingent of girls with their mothers parents grandmothers. I'm thinking that young girls love Ballet more than Opera; Also I read, somewhere, that Missy Copeland has a major Detroit Fan club/ | |
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| re: Kwestions about curtain calls At The Ballet | |
| Posted by: allineedisthegirl 01:07 pm EST 02/09/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Kwestions about curtain calls At The Ballet - bmc 12:17 pm EST 02/09/18 | |
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| It's not just that young girls love ballet more than opera. Many, many of them study ballet; it's one of the major pass-times for young girls; studying opera, not so much. Also dance classes are a group event, shared by friends, so logically they often go as a group to the ballet. Voice is a solitary study. db |
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| re: Kwestions about curtain calls At The Ballet | |
| Posted by: Zelgo 05:47 pm EST 02/10/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Kwestions about curtain calls At The Ballet - allineedisthegirl 01:07 pm EST 02/09/18 | |
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| Opera has become the realm of the blue-haired set. I really feel it's dying quickly, at least in the US. | |
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| re: Kwestions about curtain calls At The Ballet | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:16 am EST 02/11/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Kwestions about curtain calls At The Ballet - Zelgo 05:47 pm EST 02/10/18 | |
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| On one hand, I don't mean to dismiss your opinions outright. On the other hand, I've been hearing "opera is dying, theatre is dying, Broadway is dying," etc, most of my life. But they're NOT dead. They never have been. No matter how may times they have been declared as such. No use permitting some prophet of doom to wipe all the arts away...;-) |
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