Idrienne's View on the Ballet

Today after a tiring but fun day of debating in our conferences, we went to watch a ballet in the Hermitage. The Hermitage is a large place unique in design and culture, and home to arguably one of the best Queens who ever lived: Queen Catherine the Great. This ballet was magnificent, not only because it was a collage of excerpts from famous pieces know around the world such as The Nutcracker, excerpts from The Black Swan and much more, but because it was performed in a palace’s theatre where the architecture and decorations brought even more life and beauty into the ballet. This was a wonderful experience; we were able to enter one of the greatest palaces ever, which many people in their whole life span will never get a chance to see. This theatre was so unique and different from all the other rooms in the palace; the other rooms were yes unique in a way, because different things happened in different rooms, however they all had the same over arching theme which set them alike. In contrast, the theatre was different, it had to show freedom of expression, as well as elegance and control and this theatre unparticular did exactly that. All of these wonderful aspects contributed to the beauty of not only the room, but what was going on inside of it which is the reason why this ballet was son special.