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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've gotten a bunch of instagram ads for ballet yesterday and today, and one mentioned "tickets as low as $29" so obviously it IS having a positive effect.[/quote]

Chalamet has brought more attention to ballet and opera than they've had in years. They should be grateful.

Wish some rich people/foundations/organizations would now make a huge push and give out free tickets en masse to schools, etc., to get people by the truckload to see what they've been missing.[/quote]

I like ballet but find it really inaccessible.  The ballet sfficinados mostly sneer at the narrative stuff, especially nutcracker and the other old school stuff, but that is what is most accessible if you don’t know the intricacies of the dance.  I like a story and costumes.  
My favorite ballet ever was tj version of Alice in wonderland that the national ballet did about 15 years ago.  The set designs and the costumes and performance value was amazing and the dancers were really athletic.  I suspect the people who know ballet thought that show was pandering or sometime but it was SO MUCH FUN.  (There was a big where they shrink and they had child dancers dressed in the same costumes and downsized the background and it honestly took me a couple minutes to figure out how they were shrinking the dancers!). 
I often feel like the ballet folks don’t want it to be popular art—-which is fine I guess but then they shouldn’t complain when average people who like pop culture things say “Ballet is boring.”   [/quote]

Exactly. They don't really want to rub should with the unwashed masses who won't bother dressing up for a night out. I think they are perfectly fine with Chalamet recognizing that his fans and the ballet fans have almost no overlap. They are perfectly fine to keep it that way.[/quote]

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