Slapstick Ballet

I attended a performance of Prokofiev's Cinderalla by the Amercian Company Ballet.

First, the program. The story of Cinderalla is narrated in this jokey manner which is meant to be funny, but isn't. It's tedious in the extreme.

The actual ballet: I didn't find the music memorable at all. This is apparently the third choreographed version of the ballet. I hated it. The wicked stepsisters and their dates to the ball are presented as buffoons. They take dancing lessons but are terrible. By terrible I mean, they do a slapstick version of bad ballet dancing.

The audience laughed at their antics. But I didn't find it funny at all. You come to a ballet to see, beautiful, elegant dancing, not slapstick. Every now and then, for instance, at the ball, you would get actual ballet dancing, which was a pleasure. I loved the scenes in which the attendees of the ball are dancing in unison. Then the moment would be ruined by the slapstick bad dancing. Ugh!

Another point I don't understand is why the wicked stepsisters were presented as ridiculous. Wickedness is not the same as ridiculousness.