Bad choreography and even worse music

I'm sitting here, fighting to get through a full length ballet I'm watching on Amazon Video. I'm more than a half hour into the ballet, and I have yet to hear anything resembling a theme, or a melody. The score is just a mess, a jumble of sounds, a feeble attempt at sophisticated music. Now, I'll be the first to admit that my taste in music may be a bit naive, but I know garbage when I hear it. This stuff makes Prokofiev (whose music I detest) sound like Rodgers and Hammerstein. I understand dissonance and unfinished chords and all that, but music, and choreography, has to have a point, it has to have a purpose. The music in this piece, and the choreography, have no point, no purpose. The steps, like the notes, are worthless. They have no meaning, they don't go anywhere, they tell me nothing. They don't reflect the music, they communicate nothing.

Good choreography should be obvious. You should think, of course that step goes there! No other step would work! That fits the music! Watching this, this, stuff, it's just a collection of steps. I can hear the choreographer in rehearsal saying, "Go over here, do some brisés, then a double cabriole. You do some arabesques, then bourees over there and fall down." There's no reason for any of it.

Does every step have to mean something, something specific? No, of course not. An audience would become overwhelmed by the information, and become mentally exhausted. If the steps, or the majority of them, mean nothing, however, the audience will catch on and get pissed.

The essence of any art form is communication. Whatever you're doing, even if there isn't a story, you have to communicate something to your audience. The only thing I'm getting from this is that no one said no to the choreographer or the composer. Or the costumer, for that matter.

I know the story the piece is based on, and I have no idea what's going on. Oh, there were some recognizable sections earlier, but, now... Oh, oh, now, you have the principal dancer doing some double tours, for no reason at all! Oh, here's a pas de deux for the leads. Do the steps mean anything? Do they tell me something about their relationship? No. Any halfway decent teacher could make up better stuff on the spot for a class!

Now, they're doing a parody of a famous adagio, but I'll bet the Trocadero did it much better. It's the only mildly interesting bit in the whole piece, so far, and only because it's a joke on another ballet. If you didn't know the ballet, it might be funny, but...

I can't believe it, this thing is getting worse! It's turned into some kind of, oh, I can't stand this.

I feel I have now seen the worst ballet, with the worst score, ever.

Please, please, if you are going to choreograph something, or write some music, have a purpose. Don't try and con your audience. Don't just throw steps together, don't just have your musicians see if they can play every note they've ever learned.

Communicate something.

See you in class.