Comments on: Is seeing believing? Watch this

By: Teresa

Teresa — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:51:04 +0000

Wow!!! Having watched many ballet dancers perform and knowing how much strength it takes to do some of the milder poses - this was simply astonishing! I kept looking to see signs of strain… there were NONE - simply astounding. I don’t know if it’s art - but it is riveting!

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:46:37 +0000

You’re right. It simply defies belief. I can’t imagine whose performance is more incredible, his or hers.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:22:07 +0000

I was going to send that to you since I first saw it at Bookworm, but forgot about it.

this was simply astonishing! I kept looking to see signs of strain… there were NONE

The cost is that the Chinese start training them young. They have to hold, what people would call stress positions, for long periods of time as children and they are encouraged not to stop. That’s the traditional Chinese training method, old school you may say, full of discipline and physical pain.

Not sure how much she got of that, but you don’t get that way unless you train really hard really young. When your joints and bones and muscles are literally already growing to fill your body structure, before they lock in place.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:26:24 +0000

I see art as more of a field concerning beauty rather than that it must invoke some intellectual insight, for that I leave it to philosophy.

By: harry McHitlerburtonstein the Extremist

harry McHitlerburtonstein the Extremist — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:05:34 +0000

Their implied message: We can beat you up.

By: Maw

Maw — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:16:24 +0000

Amazing. Hard training is definitely required, but every good thing that’s worth achieving is worth the pain required. An amazing hybrid of Chinese acrobatic traditions with European classical dance. It’s definitely beautiful.

By: douglas

douglas — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:19:28 +0000

Definitely a combined effort of chinese acrobatics and ballet. I’d agree that it isn’t art, though I think acrobatics honest to itself can be artistic, but it seems like an interesting inroad to literally pick up the ‘ballerina’ and have her defy gravity (in part) literally. I also have to agree with Harry- his performance is not to be overlooked. Even if she only weighs 85 pounds, when she’s on point on his shoulder, that’s quite a concentrated load.

By: Parody or Reality: Ballet « Sake White

Parody or Reality: Ballet « Sake White — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:30:52 +0000

[…] or Reality: Ballet March 24, 2008 Posted by ymarsakar in Humour. trackback This is a ballet done by the Chinese to the tune of a Russian […]

By: Vanderleun

Vanderleun — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:41:35 +0000

Watched it again and I have to say that this time I saw that there was no ballet in it. No emotion, no evocation of a deeper feeling or spirit.

In the end, nothing more than the same old totalitarian acrobatics in a tutu.