"I thought crooked nuts were so elegant. In the box of the Sydney Opera House, Yang Meng stretched out his head and looked left and right, he couldn't watch the ballet, he put all the fun on watching the girl.

"Look at it, this foreigner should sleep when he watches ballet. I thought they could really understand ballet. Look at that man, he's all out of trouble. , look at that and look at that, they're all snoring!" Yang Meng said to Xiao Peng with an excited face.

Xiao Peng glanced at him: "Can't you appreciate art quietly? I'm a lovelorn person now." Don't make such a fuss, can you?"

Yang Meng pouted: "You are still a lovelorn person, I can't see it." ”

"Then what should I do? Crying and crying to death or alive? Dude, you've seen too many brain fragments taken by your little fresh meat. Xiao Peng gave him a blank look.

"You stinky man with a hard heart!" Yang Meng pouted.

Xiao Peng didn't want to come here, but Yang Meng's words moved him: "You can't hurt others because they hurt you, don't you?" Even if you don't want to have any development with Minnie, then you have to tell her face to face, you can't let Minnie wait for you in vain, right?

Xiao Peng thought about it, Yang Meng was right, so he still came to see this ballet performance, uh, to be honest, Xiao Peng really couldn't understand the ballet, but it was really beautiful.

"Can't you just keep your mouth shut and enjoy art in peace?" Xiao Peng annoyed Yang Meng so much that his head hurt.

Yang Meng glanced at Xiao Peng: "Appreciating art? You seem to understand this ballet, don't you just stretch out your legs and hold your toes as a compass? Don't look down on me, do you really think I don't understand? This performance they perform is called "Swan Lake", and Lao Tzu also knows it!"

Xiao Peng was happy: "There is such a big Swan Lake written on the door, if you don't know, then it's weird!

When Yang Meng heard this, he said triumphantly: "The traditional "Swan Lake" refers to the classic Tchaikovsky version, but the Kangaroo National Ballet is not the Tchaikovsky version, but a new dance drama re-choreographed by the Kangaroo National Treasure choreographer Graham Murphy, which has amazed the dance world since its premiere in 2005, and has become a classic adaptation of Matthew Byrne's male version of "Swan Lake". Although the music still retains Tchaikovsky's version of 1877 and the technique of classical ballet, bold changes have been made to the storyline and visuals. While retaining the elegant and smooth artistic charm of the traditional "Swan Lake", Murphy replaced the traditional tights and tutu skirts with black tuxedos and long pure white court dress skirts in terms of clothing, borrowing modern fashion elements to produce different aesthetic effects, especially the long skirt at the wedding of Odetta in the opening play, the skirt is up to three meters long! ”

Looking at Xiao Peng's dumbfounded appearance, Yang Meng continued to say complacently: "Compared with the changes in the stage effects, the changes in the plot of this new "Swan Lake" are more thought-provoking, and he is controversial because he directly alludes to the tragic story of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in contemporary real life. The dance drama abandons the indispensable swan and prince in the fairytale archetype, and instead tells the story of a triangular relationship of love and betrayal that takes place in a modern court: a young woman, Odetta, becomes suspicious of the love of her newlywed husband, Prince Siegfried, and discovers that a baroness has captured her husband's heart. The Baroness designs to throw Odjeta into an insane asylum. After escaping, Odjeta became an uninvited guest at the Baroness's banquet. The baroness tried to play another trick, and Odjeta escaped in the darkness and disappeared into Swan Lake. Prince Siegfried was depressed for the rest of his life in his nostalgia for Odjeta. At that time, this drama coincided with Camilla's marriage into the royal family, and the plot was exactly the same as the triangular relationship between Prince Charles, Princess Diana and Camilla. ”

"Aside from these gossip elements, Murphy abandons the classical fairy tale 'beauty and sorrow' of the original Swan Lake, and replaces it with modern feelings full of love and betrayal, and the characters' emotions are more complex and real, and easy to resonate with the audience. It can be said that it is close to human nature, but it is also a little dark and weird, so it is different. The director of the troupe once reminded the audience before the premiere to 'bring a tissue to wipe away tears'. It is precisely because of its fashion and popularity that despite the fact that it has been ten years since its premiere, Swan Lake is still one of the most popular productions of Kangaroo Country Ballet. ”

"Wo, you're not the alien in Diànyǐng's "Man in Black", right? Kill my buddy and borrow his skin? This is definitely not what Yang Meng I know can say!" Xiao Peng's eyes widened as big as bells. This feeling is like two people who have been married for many years and have no children, but when they go to the hospital, good guys, it turns out that both of them are men!

Yang Meng laughed and took out a small brochure: "At the cocktail party before the show just now, a young man gave it to me, and it was clearly written. ”

Xiao Peng took the brochure and looked at it, it turned out to record the evaluation of this play by various drama critics. It is convenient for those who are new to ballet to quickly understand the charm of this play. This kangaroo country has done its best to promote ballet.

In the kangaroo country, the soil for the development of ballet is really good. It's not the same as watching other performances. When you go to see a diànyǐng, a musical and dance drama, you enter the venue at the point and wait for the start, but this is not the case with ballet, before the ballet starts, the hall is full of people in evening dresses, holding champagne and talking and laughing, for them, this performance is more like a party.

If you want to talk about this Kangaroo Country Ballet, it is really the leader of the Kangaroo Country Ballet circle, with more than 200 national tours every year, and there are tens of thousands of regular audiences in Sydney alone. Almost every show will be attended regularly. Every year, a package ticket is purchased to visit the show. If it weren't for Wahab, Xiao Peng would not have this luxury box at all, because except for a very small number of super luxury boxes that receive VIPs, most of the boxes are directly reserved for the whole year.

However, the fact that ballet can develop so well in Kangaroo Country is also related to their emphasis on cultivating young audiences, and all major theaters have student tickets, and an hour before the opening, the best remaining tickets will be given to students in the most dījià chūshòu, and every time an hour before the performance, you will see students waiting in line. In addition, after the performance, there is often a thank-you reception, where celebrities who come to watch the performance are invited to interact with the students and actors up close.

Of course, in addition to bringing the audience and the actors closer, this reception also has the most important thing: fundraising.

Unlike most ballet companies in China, which are mostly funded by the government, the ballet companies in Kangaroo Country are privately owned and corporatized, and they are self-reliant and self-responsible, so they must pay attention to marketing. Every year, relying on donations from all walks of life and the profit of a fixed audience, the operation level of Kangaroo Country Ballet is very outstanding among the world's ballet companies! That's why so many Chinese ballet dancers choose to develop here.

Xiao Peng now had an invitation in front of him to invite them to a thank-you reception, and when they entered the box, the invitation was placed on the table.

The two of them were not interested in this invitation, and those people didn't know who they were at all, but they just felt that they were coming to this box, so they sent an invitation card and fooled the two of them to pay for it. Is this taking the two of them as the main culprit?"

However, this ballet is indeed not something that Xiao Peng can appreciate, he can only feel that the dancers are indeed beautiful, but he really can't see it. Do you expect a person who has "The Most Dazzling National Style" every day to accept "Symphony of Destiny"? Yang Meng fell to the side and kept complaining: "Look at it, that guy is hard! There is a big lump in the crotch of his pants! Alas, this is not to blame him, look at his dance partner, obviously not wearing underwear." In other words, even if you wear underwear, it's useless, your chest is flat, and the front and back are the same boards. You can win in this way, it's too unfocused。。。。。。 ”

Xiao Peng really couldn't stand it: "Big brother, let's stop, okay? Do you know what the standard weight for ballet dancing is? It's height minus 120, and no matter how tall you are, you are not allowed to exceed 100 pounds, you are like Minnie's height, you can't exceed 100 pounds, how many taels of meat can you have on your body? Can they have breasts。。。。。。 ”

Yang Meng sighed: "This girl is dedicated to art." It's a washboard. ”

Xiao Peng continued: "Do you think it's enough to be thin? Ballet requires a lot of leg strength, so almost all of those dancers have a slender upper body and thick legs. ”

Yang Meng thought for a while: "Minnie can't see it, I don't think her legs are thick." ”

Xiao Peng explained: "That's because she's tall, even if she's thick, she can accept it." If she's shorter, you'll be able to tell. And she also has occupational diseases, you see, all ballet dancers are figure-eight. This is the result of long-term training. ”

Yang Meng took a breath: "I still want to have a girl let her learn ballet in the future." This Nima really didn't dare. ”

Xiao Peng shook his head: "If you want to cultivate a girl's aristocratic temperament, it is a good choice to let her learn ballet, but if you want to hope that your daughter will become an excellent ballet dancer one day and become famous through ballet, it will be too difficult." Then again, who wants to succeed without hard work, except for those who are born with a diamond spoon in their mouths?"

"You, I haven't seen you practice riding. Yang Meng came over directly.

"Ugh. Xiao Peng asked Yang Meng rhetorically: "Don't you think that you are very abnormal like the Hulk now?"

Yang Meng laughed: "What's wrong with this? I get up every morning and insist on exercising! After persevering for so many years, I naturally have gained something." ”

Xiao Peng pouted: "Do you think that just punching you every morning can be like a monster like you today?"

"Of course I can, and I have to be able to. I don't want my buddy to be caught slice for experiments. Yang Meng poured a glass of champagne and drank it all.

Xiao Pengleng was in place, who said that Yang Meng was stupid? He was more shrewd than anyone else!

What else did he want to say, Yang Meng pointed to the stage: "Dude, Minnie is on stage!"

(End of chapter)