Spring performance of the Smuin Ballet (Saturday, May 25, 2013)

Today I went to the spring performance of the Smuin Ballet Company. I liked it a lot more than the Cinderella Ballet because we actually had seats where we could see the performer's faces! Instead of sitting three stories up in the very back row, we sat in the fifth row, right smack in the middle. I preferred the second act to the first act. It was really cool. All of the girls were wearing yellow leotards and the guys were wearing blue pants. The set looked like a yellow box with no top or bottom and one of the sides cut off (the one towards the audience, so that we could see of course). The shades of yellow on the walls would change as the lights projected differently onto them. It created a transient mood/theme for the dances. I also liked seeing that the ballerinas did not all look exactly the same. They were different heights with different body-types, and it was refreshing as compared to the ballets I have watched where all of the dancers have the same exact body.