#performing art

timothee chalamet dunking on ballet and opera for being “irrelevant” as if his literal own mother wasn’t a professional dancer for one of the biggest ballet companies ever... as a ballet dancer myself who’s been in the industry for over a decade we ARE a dying art form not because we’re “irrelevant” but because struggling artists exist everywhere. the studios are poor and theatre is at just as much of a risk. writers and painters and actors and dancers and singers and any other kind of artists need to have each others backs in a world where human connection is dying and ai slop is being pushed by big corps. this is your reminder to GO to the opera and GO to the ballet and take a trip to the theatre to watch a movie and give thanks to your fanfic writers and pay an artist for a commission because humans were born to create art and that is always valuable

I think the best thing about liking theatre is that when you get a little crazy about a character (in any way shape or form), you can wear their skin if you like. You can say their words and perform as them in front of an audience and for a play’s duration you have as much claim to that character as anyone else who’s ever performed them has. And it’s literally the best way you can honour them and keep them alive. Which is my biggest issues with movies and tv shows and all that is it’s seperate and only really ever one idea done with one set of people, and if the same idea keeps showing up it’s generally a bad thing. But with theatre and performing arts, you can do the same thing over and over with different people and it fucking rocks every time