Ballet/Gymnastics
Please add ballet and gymnastics hobbies. They are top of my wish list for hobbies. Ballet was one of my favourite hobbies to give Sims in Sims 2. I would love to have the Nutcracker ballet routine ag...
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"Elliandre;c-18051633" wrote:"GrimlyFiendish;c-18051571" wrote:
If we got a ballet pack I would also totally want the ability to do a performance of the Rite of Spring, can you imagine some of the game glitches hilarity that would ensue during this :D Spectators rioting optional of course, unless one feels like recreating the 1913 debut. :D
(but seriously, this would be a Ballet I'd love if they could include in a pack, along with Giselle, La Sylphide, and Swan Lake).
https://youtu.be/YOZmlYgYzG4?t=479
Omg what was THAT?! :scream: I've never seen this Russian ballet lol, parts of it were like a Strangerville Ballet ...
The Rite of Spring, composed by Igor Stravinsky & choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballet Russes company. It had its debut in 1913, and was so radical for the time that it literally caused a riot. The rich elite types in the upper stalls were shouting in disgust, the bohemian arty types in the lower area were trying to drown them out by yelling over the top of them, there was so much shouting, cat calling and arguing from the audience that it drowned out the orchestra, Nijinsky eventually had to resort to stomping out the rhythm so the dancers could at least feel some sort of beat through the stage floor, at one point they resorted to turning the house lights on and off to try and calm people down, the police eventually arrived and began making arrests, and two guys decided to agree to a duel the following day.
Stravinsky went on to have great success with the music for Rite of Spring as a solely orchestral piece (no ballet included), and the actual (original Nijinsky version) ballet itself wasn't performed again until the 1980s when work was done to try and reconstruct the original choreography.
