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    Ballet Vs Ballet

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    completely in tune with just you‚ no outside stimulators. Everyone’s reality release is different‚ mine happens to be ballet. For some it may be running miles and miles or scrawling a pen over paper‚ but for me‚ its the placing of my body in different shapes in time with the music. Ballet allows me to find freedom in movement unlike any other art form. While art‚ specifically ballet‚ can be portrayed as emotion based‚ its foundation has a very academic approach. With just a glance‚ patterns fill the

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    Dance History Review

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    1. How did the Ballet Russe under the Russian director‚ Diaghilev‚ break from the ballet traditions of Russian ballet in the early 20th century? What were the existing ballet traditions at the end of the 19th century in Russia and what new innovations were made in ballet by BR? 2. Give four reasons why the Parisian audience in 1913 rioted during the premier performance of Le Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring). Give choreographer‚ composer of music‚ and the content of the ballet. 3. Three Europeans

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    Enrico Cecchetti

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    Enrico Cecchetti: the Man that Revolutionized the World of Ballet “Aim at softness and ease in your performance of a dance. Endeavor that all shall be harmonious. However hard you work at your lessons or at rehearsals‚ let none of this effort be visible in your performance. There must be no sign of concentration‚ exertion‚ or tension. All must be free and natural. For the true art is that which conceals the labor that produced it (Enrico Cecchetti)”. Born in a dressing room of a Roman theatre Enrico

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    Ballet

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    * Ballet is a specific academic dance form and technique which is taught in ballet schoolsaccording to specific methods. There are many ballet schools around the world that specializein various styles of ballet and different techniques offered. Works of dance choreographedusing this technique are called ballets‚ and usually include dance‚ mime‚ acting‚ and music(usually orchestral but occasionally vocal). Ballet is best known for its unique features andtechniques‚ such as pointe work‚ turn-out of

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    From Ballet to Modern Dance Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish decent of the 20th Century. He was born on March 12‚ 1889 and died on April 8‚ 1950. He is commonly known to be the best male ballet dancer of his time. He was introduced to dance early on by his parents‚ who were also dancers. His sister‚ Bronislava Nijinska was also a dancer and worked with Vaslav Nijinsky throughout his career. Although he began dancing at a very young age and often played the lead

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    The Rite of Spring

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    started his dance career after he joined the Imperial Ballet School in 1900‚ in which he studied under Enrico Cecchetti and Nicholas Legat. He took many lead roles until his dance career took a turning point‚ and met Sergei Diaghilev. He danced with famous Anna Pavlova‚ as a lead in the Ballets Russes in Paris‚ and also starred in Fokine’s pieces "Le Pavillon d’Armide‚" "Cleopatra‚" and "The Feast." He then went on to choreograph his own ballets‚ such as "L’Aprés-Midi d’un Faune" (The Afternoon of

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    Imperial School of Ballet in 1900 and was later the lead dancer of the Ballet Russes. He eventually choreographed many works‚ one of them being Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) in 1913. He “exceeded the limits of traditional ballet” and the Rite was an example of this. In 1919 he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent the rest of his life in and out of hospitals until he died in London on April 8‚ 1950. The Rite of Spring was performed by Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes on May 29th‚

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    History of Modern Dance

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    Dance (Реферат) Выполнила ученица 11 ГЯК класса Гофман Ксения Руководитель Кабанова О. Н. Пермь 2011 Contents Оглавление Introduction 3 Short history of Dance 4 Ballet in France: 16th - 17th century AD 6 18th and 19th centuries: from court dancing to Romanticism 8 Early 20th century: from ballet to contemporary dance 10 The Beginnings of Modern Dance 11 Early Dancers in the United States 11 German Contributions 12 The Second Generation in America 14 Later Dancers

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    The Life and Times of George Balanchine   The founder and Ballet Master of the New York City Ballet. The father of American ballet. The best choreographer of the twentieth century. George Balanchine carries all these impressive titles and more‚ yet still‚ almost no one today knows his name. He was the unseen puppeteer of the NYCB‚ the man who was admired but unknown. Those lucky dancers he trained went on to become the biggest ballet stars of their time‚ and his beautiful dances were and are still

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    Modern dance is the term used for the 20th-century theatrical dance movement. The movement was started by American dancer Isadora Duncan in a rebellion against ballet‚ which she felt was too constricting. Duncan based her dance technique and style on the Greeks. She identified with their ideals of human form and beauty. Although her way of dance was originally met with strong opposition‚ her ideas later came into wide favor. In the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKtQWU2ifOs time 26 to 35

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