#le corsaire completely distorts the original lord byron poem and makes gulnare want to marry her slaveowner
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reading synopses of famous ballets and woah. why r they all so misogynistic and racist and ahistorical
#paquita is literally based on the myth that roma steal children wtf#and they find out she's actually french nobility instead of roma + related to the french officer she saved so they can get married 🤢#le corsaire completely distorts the original lord byron poem and makes gulnare want to marry her slaveowner#i guess in recent versions they find that distasteful and make her into medora's selfless best friend instead#la bayadere is pure misogyny too. gamzatti is so jealous that her betrothed loves nikiya she's willing to kill her for it? wtf#giselle is a different flavor of misogyny... giselle dies due to heartbreak that her lover lied to her abt who he was#(he's actually a nobleman in disguise instead of presumably another peasant)#and ofc i mentioned before how the ballet within the ballet - diana & actaeon within don quixote - romanticizes the original myth#diana would not love the hunter she turns into a gazelle or whatever for the crime of looking at her#well at least coppelia's kinda fun with the whole ''u guys r so enamored by a fucking automaton'' thing lol#and then having to pretend to be the automaton. and then pretending to be an automaton come to life. love the layers
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