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Also, he was pretty much right. No offense to opera and ballet but they objectively have an incredibly niche audience now and the experience of becoming one of the best in those fields has to be worse and less satisfying for most people than becoming a movie star.
That's not what he was saying though. He didn't say they have niche audiences he said they're just doing it to "keep this thing alive." Like out of some form of obligation.
I do wish a lot of the money that went to opera would go to smaller theatres instead, but I don't think any art form is worse than another due to the size of the audience. If I thought that I'd love marvel slop and call of duty.
edit: I don't know a lot about opera or ballet, but I know a bit about theatre. In theatre there's still incredible new plays being made, so I'm sure there is also still great new ballet and opera being made. You're unlikely to get a lot of butts in seats in theatre unless you're setting up a widely known play, which is why most big theatres main programmes are shakesspeare and things from 60+ years ago. I assume it's the same reason why opera and ballet mainly does really old stuff - It's what sells tickets. I was once an extra in a Mozart opera, which was a lot of fun.
There absolutely is! I love going to the ballet with my wife, and people are totally making new shows. They are incorporating modern dance techniques, they are diversifying from European traditions.
In fact, one of the best ballet shows I've seen is Pisuwin, a Wolastoqiyik ballet scored by the Wolastoqiyik composer Jeremy Dutcher and directed/choreographed by champion dancer Possesom, and fusing classical ballet and Wabanaki grass dance to tell a traditional Wolastoqiyik story.
I adored it!
The amount of pressure and training and abuse girls have to go through to become professional ballet dancers shouldn't be acceptable for anything. It destroys your hips, knees, feet and fucks with your body image and eating habits like few other things. Maybe there are more modern schools with less abusive methods, but I doubt it. My ex was repeatedly told, she would never amount to anything because her butt was to big. As a dancer. At 13. Fuck ballet.
Misty Copeland just announced she got double hip replacements. She's 43.
My partner attended one of those. It was about dancing and self expression rather than about the performance itself, so she has a very healthy relationship to ballet. But for professional troupes? Nah those need to be torn down and built from the ground up.