I have never been to a ballet, so this was a fun new experience for me. I read the story of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" a long time ago in my highs school freshman English class, and I couldn't remember much about it except that there were some lords and ladies and some faerie people. So when the ballet started, I was afraid it would be difficult for me to follow (and I hadn't thought to read the synopsis...). But I was happy to see that it was very easy to follow the drama and plot and there wasn't a single idea I couldn't follow.
As Shanga suggested us, I watched the dancers movements and how they place themselves and attempted to discern what the purpose of the specific movements were -- how the audience was supposed to react. One specific moment I focused on this idea was when the red man (sorry, I don't have a program with me and I cannot remember the names) was pursuing the blue lady and she was rejecting him. He would copy every move she made; when she threw her arms in the air, he would follow behind and throw his up in the same manner. It was clear that the function of this gestural emulation was to convey the feeling of him trying to get closer to her -- that he was striving to convince her to accept him.
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