Why do I want to write a ballet?

[breakinglight11]

Phoebe, you can't write a ballet.

Why would you want to write a ballet? I mean, yeah, you love ballet, and have a strong tendency of when you see an example of an art done well it usually makes you want to run home and MAKE YOUR OWN VERSION JUST AS AWESOME AS THAT ONE, but seriously. You are a writer, and writing only has the most passing involvement in the creation of a ballet! Usually somebody strings together some vague semblance of a plot and a handful of recognizable characters to facilitate the soloists that is barely discernible if you haven't read the program and completely drops out in favor of "And now they celebrate!" or "And now they mourn!" for the entirety of the third act. Thats why they usually just steal from Shakespeare or fairy tales anyway, so nobody has to write much. And the point of a ballet is to see the dancing and hear the music. The people who really make ballets are the composer and the choreographer, neither of which you have the skill to be, so why do you want to make a thing that even if you made it would be missing so many fundamental pieces that it'd be like you didn't make anything at all? And it's not like you don't have a thousand things you shouldn't be writing instead.

And you especially don't want to write the ballet you're thinking of. Because you'd probably need a composer who was familiar with African traditional music and a huge corp of dancers who were trained in both African dance and classical ballet. I doubt they'd be easy for you to sign on. And it's probably impossible to dance like that when you need big animal masks and headdresses and stuff and people would probably just ask why you felt the need to write Lion King fan fiction in ballet form.

Why am I cursed with ideas I can do nothing with?

(Still. I would totally go see a ballet like that.)



...think they could do ballet in those getups?