Is This Really What Art Has Come Down To?

[RATTER15]

https://www.facebook.com/Cashmo.Offiziell/videos/883194235027298/


What a bloody load of total nonsense!!!

[Sir Alec]

I don't see why art has to be intensely studied for a deeper meaning.
My instant reaction was to laugh at it. Since there's not enough laughter in the world, what is wrong with that?
My sister and I both have reasonably high IQ's. It made her roar laughing too, so I'm sure that my instinct isn't because I'm too thick, or not high-minded enough to 'understand' the piece.
To me, it just looks ridiculous and I enjoyed it as a 'comedy' piece.
Many many artists have been laughed at in their time, only for their work to be called masterpieces long after their deaths.
I don't think that this piece of f-art will ever be deemed a masterpiece.

[Khandro]

Maybe there is confusion here because of RATTER's provocative title in the OP question. If you consider dance to be an art form then it is. I don't think dancers care what you call it, they call it dance and it requires a fitness not paralleled in any other activities including most sports.

It is neither attempting to be funny nor serious, it is about movement of figures in space, and has a long tradition through the 20th cent. to the present day. The great German artist, Oscar Schlemmer created the Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet) a century ago. It premiered in Stuttgart, on 30 September 1922, with music composed by Paul Hindemith, after formative performances dating back to 1916. 'The ballet became the most widely performed avant-garde artistic dance and while Schlemmer was at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1929, the ballet toured, helping to spread the ethos of the Bauhaus using its amazing geometric costumes;

http://50yearsindance.com/2012/05/11/costumes-of-the-bauhaus-and-the-triadic-ballet-for-jacques-garzon/

The dance in question here uses a very minimum of props; a few pieces of tubes, but belongs to the same tradition.

Stuttgart (nearby) remains today a hub of modern dance and ballet after, following in the footsteps of Schlemmer, john Cranko did so much in developing an exciting dance scene here.

To call it "bloody load of total nonsense" says more about you than them.