We published a questionnaire to get a rough idea of how people already perceive ballet and also their thoughts and opinions on it. But also to get an idea of what these people already engage in culturally, to see if there could be potential for people to experience ballet the same way they would go to gigs, exhibitions etc.
The majority of these results showed appreciation for ballet with words such as artistic, skilful, elegant etc. but with the occasional person still seeing it as the stereotypical girls in tutus, swirling around on stage; this is something we will aim to dispel.
Comments this time were referring more to the fact that they see ballet as traditional (which means boring to some) and because ballet is seen as something different that doesn't always involve talking, people will often straight up dismiss the idea before giving it a try. This is why an appeal to other professions and relating them back to our target audience could work.
Again, the majority of the responders still consider ballet to be very much traditional and old fashioned, which often would be associated with tutus etc. A lot of ballet is contemporary, which is something that needs to be addressed to those who think otherwise.
These results are something I think that supports our idea so far of relating ballet to other professions with people associating athletes, musicians, dancers, composers etc to ballet.
Emotions are something we wanted to bring into it also because with something like ballet, I think a lot of raw emotion goes into it most importantly passion, love, joy etc. This is something I think people can relate to most, whether it be in their profession, or other professions they appreciate e.g. football, music gigs.
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