https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUT5rEU6pqM
This is damn true if you watched these two women slay the stage on Sunday. This week we continued our focus on ballet but also had a discussion about the Super Bowl and the performance from Jlo and Shakira. I chose to focus on this because the drama that surrounds this topic is pointless. So many people are saying that the show was too sexual and something that they don't want their children and families to watch.
The standard of performance is so weird in society. People want these big extravagant acts to be put up on stage for the purpose of entertainment and when they see what they have been wanting all along there is always something wrong with it. Jlo and Shakira did just what people wanted and they made a set that showcased their talents and things specific to their cultures. Immediately people hopped onto social media to create a big deal about all of this. There is nothing wrong with people showing where they came from and the place that helped them get to where they are today.
I related this back to ballet in the sense that for so long the audience had such a say in what was seen on stage and throughout so many points of the evolution of this art they changed that ideal image on stage. For a while women were performing alone and then one day they decided it would be better if a man was there to support her in all she does. Women were capable of living up to that standard that was set for them but at the end of the day it just had to be changed.
