{"id":462654,"date":"2026-03-07T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462654\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:51:08","slug":"timothee-chalamet-triggers-backlash-over-ballet-and-opera-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462654\/","title":{"rendered":"Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet triggers backlash over ballet and opera remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ballet community also spoke out, with choreographer Martin Chaix arguing that the art is &#8220;very much alive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If anything, in a world where AI is reshaping cinema faster than most realise, the unmediated human presence of ballet and opera becomes more essential, not less. I hope he finds his way into a theatre.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The English National Ballet insisted the art is &#8220;not only alive and well, but thriving&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Over 200,000 people joined our performances, experiencing the power of ballet,&#8221; it added in an Instagram post. &#8220;Our social content saw over 65m impressions and we connected with thousands of people of all ages and walks of life through creative learning and participation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While, American ballet choreographer Kam Saunders &#8211; who has worked as a dancer on Taylor Swift&#8217;s Eras Tour &#8211; simply wrote: &#8220;Yikes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ballet community also spoke out, with choreographer Martin Chaix arguing that the art is &#8220;very much alive&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-462654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}