Blog post for Monday 3/5/10
Last Saturday, my roommate and I got dressed up and headed to the Lincoln Center. We were going to see the New York City Ballet performance of Jewels. We sat in the fourth ring, as our tickets were only 20$, but even from up high in the fourth ring, the ballet was sensational, leaving us both with chills. The fourth ring allowed us a kind of cozy feeling, as we sat back and watched the curtains open on first the emerald, then the ruby, and lastly the diamond performance.
Jewels, a renowned ballet choreographed by George Balanchine, who was the co-founder of the New York City Ballet. Jewels is a three act, plot less ballet. The main concept of this ballet revolves around three different jewels: Emeralds, Rubies, and Diamonds. Each act has its own unique feeling and uses different composer's music to portray the different moods. The ballet portrays the three different feelings masterfully.
Each feeling reflects the way in which Balanchine felt about the stones he chose to use. The Diamond act, which is, in my opinion the most beautiful, shines in its clarity and technique. The ballerinas are beautiful and nimble, using their bodies to suit the music and feeling of the act. The emeralds, which start off the Jewels performance, are clean, pure, and innocent. The dance gets the audience ready for the ruby performance. Which is overall the most dramatic and moody feeling piece. The ruby piece, though the diamonds were the most clean and concise, were the best, I think, at portraying the overall feeling and meaning of Balanchine's intent.
Here is a video of San Francisco's Ballet performance of Jewels.
Olivia,
ReplyDeleteA couple of things. Some of your links are a bit weird: masterfully - prob want to say, here's what the Times had to say, or something like that. You really want the reader to understand where they're being led. Also, you link to Jewel on the third reference. You want to do that on first reference. I like the inclusion of the link to the performance.
Also, you need to think when you're blogging: why would someone want to read this? What information are you passing on? Is it relevant, revelatory, insightful? A review of a ballet is fine, but I think y9ou might want to try and go deeper into your subject material in the future. It's not enough for you to have been moved if we, the readers, don't really understand what was moving. Does that make sense?