![]() ![]() Some segments are better than others, but none can be called a failure. The same goes to a lesser extent for the other two pieces of ballet music on the program.This basic device - ignoring explicit instructions, but remaining true to the spirit - is carried through into every segment. This, one feels, is the kind of thing ballet music was TRULY designed for. ![]() Disney's amazing images express Tchaikovsky's sense of motion more than earthbound dancers ever could. Indeed he is more true to the spirit than the original ballet - for, let's face it: stage ballet is a degenerate and over-formalised art, which makes some of the world's most exciting music dull as wallpaper. But in ignoring the letter of the instructions Disney is perfectly true to the spirit. Sometimes it goes further: "Waltz of the Flowers" shows two entire changes of seasons, with leaves, fairies, seed pods, seeds, snowflakes - everything but flowers. The Chinese Dance is danced by mushrooms who look, but are not, Chinese the Arabian Dance by "Arabian" goldfish the Russian dance by "Russian" thistles and orchids. But Disney has thrown out the particular details. ![]() Tchaikovsky's ballet involves anthropomorphising inanimate things, plus the odd tiny animal. ![]()
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