{"id":8336,"date":"2024-04-18T22:20:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T12:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:16:25","slug":"la-bayadere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/2024\/04\/18\/la-bayadere\/","title":{"rendered":"La Bayadere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/la-bayadere.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/la-bayadere-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/la-bayadere-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/la-bayadere-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/la-bayadere-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/la-bayadere-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/la-bayadere.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m a ballet enthusiast now? I really enjoyed watching <em>Swan Lake <\/em>and <em>Echoes of Van Gogh<\/em> last year and was looking into this year&#8217;s lineup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La Bayadere, it turns out, has a very high degree of technicality and it was super impressive! WA Ballet&#8217;s interpretation is different from the original, and I enjoyed the plotline. I think I was holding my breath for most of it, especially during Act II, The Kingdom of the Shades, the arabesque train down a slope!!! Omg! All the ballerinas were trembling, it must have been so intense! I have so much respect for the strength of ballet dancers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time I also paid some attention to the orchestra too, I feel like part of the magic of ballet is also that the conductor is watching the ballet in order to make sure the orchestra is in sync. So cool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing quite like the intensity of watching live performances!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;m a ballet enthusiast now? I really enjoyed watching Swan Lake and Echoes of Van Gogh last year and was looking into this year&#8217;s lineup. La Bayadere, it turns out, has a very high degree of technicality and it was super impressive! WA Ballet&#8217;s interpretation is different from the original, and I enjoyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[119,976,1194,1457,2105],"class_list":["post-8336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-ballet","tag-i-love-watching-ballet","tag-la-bayadere","tag-orchestra-pits-are-great","tag-when-did-i-become-so-cultured-lol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8937,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions\/8937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}