Spacing in neoclassical ballet is usually more modern or complex than in classical ballet.
Developments in ballet composition were also advanced by composers such as Christoph Gluck.
Finally, Beowulf tears Grendel's arm from his body and Grendel flees home, bleeding to death.
Beyond her talents as a ballerina, Pavlova had the theatrical gifts to fulfill Fokine's vision of ballet as drama.
By synthesizing Italian and French dance styles, Jean-Baptiste Lully created a legacy that would define the future of ballet.
Re-stagings of beloved ballets, as well as innovative modern dance, testify to the flexibility and vitality of the art.
Ballet was further shaped by the French ballet de cour, which consisted of social dances performed by the nobility in tandem with music, speech, verse, song, decor, and costume.
Nearly everything in ballet is described by a French word or phrase.
Ballet originated in the Renaissance court as an outgrowth of court pageantry in Italy, Aristocratic weddings were lavish celebrations.
Barbara Karinska, a Russian emigrant and a skilled seamstress, collaborated with Balanchine to elevate the art of costume design from a secondary role to an integral part of a ballet performance.
Today, partly thanks to Balanchine, ballet is one of the most renowned dance styles in the world.
A prolific worker, Balanchine re-choreographed classics such as Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty as well as staging scores of new ballets.
The eighteenth century saw major advances in the technical standards of ballet, and during this period it came to be regarded as a serious dramatic art form on par with opera.
The athleticism and virtuosity of modern ballet has won international recognition.
The most controversial work of the Ballet Russe was Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which shocked audiences with its theme of human sacrifice.
After the “golden age” of Petipa, Russian ballet entered a period of stagnation, until choreographer Michel Fokine revitalized the art.
The rise of Romanticism, a reaction in the arts against Enlightenment rationalism and growing industrialization, led choreographers to compose romantic ballets that were light and airy.
After 1850, interest in ballet began to wane in Paris and grow in Denmark and, most notably, Russia, thanks to masters such as August Bournonville, Jules Perrot, Arthur Saint-Lйon, Enrico Cecchetti, and Marius Petipa.
Believing that the ballet of the time offered little more than prettiness and athleticism, Fokine demanded drama, expression, and historical authenticity in addition to technical virtuosity.
The French word in turn has its origins in Italian balletto, a diminutive of ballo (dance).
The Korean National Ballet (founded in 1962), and more recently Universal Ballet of Seoul, have contributed to the popularization of ballet in Korea.
Russian companies, particularly after World War II toured all over the world, revitalizing ballet in the west and elevating it as an art embraced by the general public.
Dancers and choreographers constantly seek to explore new technical and dramatic frontiers, and international tours of dance companies and elite schools of dance confirm the continuing global appeal of contemporary ballet.
Contemporary ballet is a form of dance influenced by both classical ballet and modern dance.
Supported by multilateral financial institutions, Jamaica has, since the early 1980s, sought to implement structural reforms aimed at fostering private sector activity and increasing the role of market forces in resource allocation.
To perform the more demanding routines, a ballet dancer must appear to defy gravity while working within its constraints.
A distinctive feature of ballet is the outward rotation of the thighs from the hip.
The Imperial Ballet, known after the Bolshevik revolution as the Kirov Ballet (named after the Leningrad party boss, Sergei Kirov), also rose in world prominence.
The stories revolved around uncanny, folkloric spirits, such as in La Sylphide, one of the oldest romantic ballets still danced today.
The earliest references to the five core positions of ballet appear in the writings of Pierre Beauchamp, a court dancer and was also a choreographer.
Ballet techniques are generally grouped by the area in which they originated, such as the high extensions and dynamic turns of Russian ballet.
At the same time, the ballet slipper was invented to support pointe work.
Neoclassical ballet describes a dance style that uses traditional ballet vocabulary but is generally more expansive than the classical structure allowed.
The appellation Sun King, by which the French monarch is still commonly referred, originated from Louis XIV's role in Lully's Ballet de la Nuit (1653).
Ballet, especially classical ballet, puts great emphasis on the method and execution of movement.
Tharp also worked with the Joffrey Ballet company, founded in 1957 by Robert Joffrey.
Balanchine also brought modern dancers like Paul Taylor into his company, the New York City Ballet, as in the 1959 Balanchine ballet, Episodes.
Professional librettists began crafting the stories in ballets, and teachers like Carlo Blasis codified ballet technique in the basic form that is still used today.
The Ballet Russe created a sensation in Western Europe because of the great vitality of Russian ballet compared with French dance at the time.
What was left was the dance itself, sophisticated but sleekly modern, retaining the pointe shoe aesthetic, but eschewing the involved drama and mime of the full length story ballet.
The target of a sonar, such as a submarine, has two main characteristics that influence the performance of the sonar.
The word ballet itself comes from French, and was incorporated into English during the seventeenth century.
The Joffrey Ballet continued to perform numerous contemporary pieces, many choreographed by co-founder Gerald Arpino.
Traditionally "classical" companies, such as the Kirov Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet, also regularly perform contemporary works.
Following his appointment as artistic director of the American Ballet Theatre in 1980, Baryshnikov worked with various modern choreographers, most notably Twyla Tharp.
Together, they adapted an Italian theater style, the commedia dell'arte, into their work for a French audience, creating the comйdie-ballet.
Louis XIV established the Acadйmie Royale de la Danse (which evolved into the company known today as the Paris Opera Ballet) in 1661.
Early ballet was participatory, with the audience joining the dance towards the end.
Incorporating aspects of Italian ballet, French ballet gained prominence and influenced the dance genre internationally.
Ballet is best known for its sophisticated techniques, such as pointe work, turn-out of the legs, and high extensions; its graceful, flowing, precise movements; and its ethereal qualities.
The choreographer Sergei Diaghilev brought ballet full-circle back to Paris in 1909, when he opened his Ballet Russe, residing first in the Thйвtre Mogador and Thйвtre du Chвtelet, Paris; and then in Monte Carlo.
Today, there are many explicitly contemporary ballet companies and choreographers.
Jean-Baptiste Lully, an Italian composer serving in the French court, played a significant role in establishing the general direction in which ballet would follow for the next century.
The neoclassical style of twentieth century ballet was best exemplified by the works of George Balanchine.
Tim Scholl, author of From Petipa to Balanchine, considers Balanchine's Apollo (1928) to be the first neoclassical ballet, a return to form in response to Serge Diaghilev's abstract ballets.
An early ballet, if not the first, produced and shown was Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx's Ballet Comique de la Reine (1581) and was a ballet comique (ballet drama).
In ballet, a soloist is a dancer in a ballet company above the corps de ballet but below principal dancer. Dancers at this level perform the majority of the solo and minor roles in a ballet, such as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet or one of the Fairies in The Sleeping Beauty.
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