performative dissonance
Last night, the fiance took me to see Swan Lake. Beautiful production, with excellent dancers. And then, on the way home, I looked up the ballet's synopsis online, and discovered that it bore no resemblance whatsoever to the performance I'd just seen - except for the characters' names, and there being a lake full of swans.
Which, I guess you can do with ballet, since you don't need to deal with any lyrics.
It did make for a rather confusing Wikipedia experience for me, though. Kind of like looking up the BtVS season 2 finale and seeing this:
In Whedon's original draft, the battle at the airport was less prominent than it became in the finished episode. Also, originally Buffy attempted to follow Emily's plan, and failed - rather than dismissing the plan outright.
Confusing, no?
Wonderfully fun evening, despite Wikipedia lying to me. Very tired today. Must sleep some more.
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Which, I guess you can do with ballet, since you don't need to deal with any lyrics.
It did make for a rather confusing Wikipedia experience for me, though. Kind of like looking up the BtVS season 2 finale and seeing this:
In Whedon's original draft, the battle at the airport was less prominent than it became in the finished episode. Also, originally Buffy attempted to follow Emily's plan, and failed - rather than dismissing the plan outright.
Confusing, no?
Wonderfully fun evening, despite Wikipedia lying to me. Very tired today. Must sleep some more.
The conversation's happening over at Dreamwidth. Feel free to comment there using OpenID. (
comments so far)