i'll write more later. coppelia was amazing and i also wondered..."maybe this is actually just the funnest ballet ever made." i was talking to my mom a few days later and she said something like, one of her friends once took a bunch of people to see it and one of them said he didn't get it, so she told him not to go to any other ballet performances, in a "it doesn't get better than this" way
this time was three separate, and more abstract, pieces. and they all totally ruled. we're getting season tickets for next year...