Walk: T Joe's
Distance: 2.4 miles
So, Ciwt couldn't help but wonder what the opera lovers in the SF Ballet audience yesterday were thinking during its new dance version of the beloved Carmen.
The music is almost entirely new (but catchy and pretty hip). Carmen is not a cigarette factory worker; she's a waitress. And she's in Cuba, not Spain. She's married in this dance. And, oh, she comes to realize that she is a lesbian after all.
Ciwt and the season ticket holders sitting around her are a pretty open-minded (though mostly mature) group, and none of us got into this Carmen. If the dance was 'modernized' for the younger audience, judging from the tepid applause at the end, it didn't sound like they got into either. Ditto our local dance reviwer.
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