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A R T S & CU LT U RE
Review: Watch her
KAROLINA WISNIEWSKI
Editor-in-Chief
If there are two words I cannot stand to see
in print, they are “sublime” and “Kafkaesque”.
There is nearly always a less pretentious way
to achieve descriptive accuracy, and I’ve come
to regard overreliance on those turns of phrase
to be little more than laziness hidden beneath
a thin veneer of pseudo-intellectualism - something I have little patience for in general. In light
of this, I struggled to find adjectives that could
replace these words in my review of the National
Ballet of Canada’s performance of Watch her, and
I’m only a little disappointed to say that I was
unsuccessful.
Though I had seen my share of ballets before
attending the March 1st performance of Watch
her, I had never gone to a modern ballet. As a
child, like most young dancers, I anxiously
awaited my yearly trip to The Nutcracker (and
was a little too old before I