Swan Lake

Swan Lake was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Despite the face that I wasn't completely sure of the plot, the end brought me to tears. The plot seemed pretty open for interpretation anyway. The relationships were what were made incredibly clear. In fact, I found that the relationships were all I really needed to understand to get something out of it. Everything else seemed up in the air, and I was okay with it, and maybe even liked it better that way. It had this dreamlike quality where you're unsure what's really happening and what's only happening in the prince's mind.
I realized, when the show started, that I should have done some research on it beforehand because I'd expected it to be like the original version of swan lake except with men as swans. I loved the interpretation of it; it just took me a while to figure out that it wasn't going to be Swan Lake. It was even self referential at the beginning in the funny scene where they're at the ballet. I thought that was really well done because it was hilarious and it also tells you that this isn't going to be what you expected which, if you didn't do your research like me, was the traditional story (minus women plus men).
As someone who's lived with a low level of coordination and little control over her body, I could really appreciate the dancing. The choreography was spectacular. I was watching and thinking that it is actually a miracle that someone could come up with these dances. They went so well with the music and fit the action so well. I've never seen a ballet before this; a lot of times it seemed to verge more on modern dance which was really cool; the whole show was very modern, especially considering it was a rendition of something written over a hundred years ago.
What carried through from what I know about the original Swan Lake is the idea of forbidden love. That was one of my favorite parts of this show. From my understanding of it, nobody had a problem with the love between a man and a man; what was looked down upon was the love between a man and a swan. This was really interesting to me, and before I say anything else about it, I want to talk about it in class and see who else had this interpretation and what everyone thinks about it.