Ballet

Ballet /ˈbæl/ (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread, highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary based on French terminology. It has been globally influential and has defined the foundational techniques used in many other dance genres. Becoming a ballet dancer requires years of training. Ballet has been taught in various schools around the world, which have historically incorporated their own cultures to evolve the art.

Ballet may also refer to a ballet dance work, which consists of the choreography and music for a ballet production. A well-known example of this is The Nutcracker, a two-act ballet that was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a music score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Ballets are choreographed and performed by trained artists. Many classical ballets are performed with classical music accompaniment and use elaborate costumes and staging, though there are exceptions to this. Most notably, American choreographer George Balanchine is known for his plotless neoclassical ballets which are often performed in simple leotards and tights without scenery.

Ballet (film)

Ballet is a 1995 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman. It portrays rehearsals, choreography, performances, business transactions, and other day-to-day life of the American Ballet Theatre. Much of the footage dates from the 1992 season. It also includes scenes from the company's European tour, namely in Greece and Copenhagen.

Appearances are made by Susan Jaffe, Julie Kent, Julio Bocca, Angel Corella, Amanda McKerrow, Alessandra Ferri and others. Various ballet masters and choreographers also appear, including Kevin McKenzie, ABT's artistic director, Ulysses Dove, Irina Kolpakova, Natalia Makarova and Agnes de Mille. Business transactions by then-director Jane Hermann are also included.

The film is currently released to the public by Wiseman's distribution company, Zipporah Films

References

  • Zipporah Films
  • Ballet at the Internet Movie Database

  • Ballet (music)

    Ballet as a music form progressed from simply a complement to dance, to a concrete compositional form that often had as much value as the dance that went along with it. The dance form, originating in France during the 17th century, began as a theatrical dance. It was not until the 19th century that ballet gained status as a “classical” form. In ballet, the terms ‘classical’ and ‘romantic’ are chronologically reversed from musical usage. Thus, the 19th century classical period in ballet coincided with the 19th century Romantic era in Music. Ballet music composers from the 17th–19th centuries, including the likes of Jean-Baptiste Lully and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, were predominantly in France and Russia. Yet with the increased international notoriety seen in Tchaikovsky’s lifetime, ballet music composition and ballet in general spread across the western world.

    History

    Until about the second half of the 19th century the role of music in ballet was secondary, with the main emphasis on dance, while music was simply a compilation of danceable tunes. Writing "ballet music" used to be a job for musical craftsmen, rather than for masters. For example, critics of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky mentioned his writing of ballet music as something demeaning.

    Ballet (disambiguation)

    Ballet is a formalized kind of performance dance.

    Ballet may also refer to:

  • Ballet company, a group of dancers who perform ballet
  • Ballet dancer, individual performer
  • Ballet (film), a 1995 documentary by Frederick Wiseman about the American Ballet Theater
  • Music

  • Ballet (music), a form of musical composition that corresponds to the dance form
  • Le ballet (Celine Dion song) 1996
  • "Le ballet", song by Patrick Juvet 1979
  • Places

  • Balat (disambiguation)
  • See also

  • Ballet terms
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Ballet

    by: Ram-zet

    Under this dead and faded sun
    Forzen
    I disappear and turn to stone
    Wake me now
    Like a secret mission inside my brain
    Falling underneath
    The sign of contortion
    Bleeding little creatures
    dancing on my head
    Singing songs of the beautiful dead
    Now I slowly drive my poem
    Into her corrupted thoughts
    The only future she knows
    Strapped by the unchangeable rage
    Could hart's secret beauty
    I call unto you
    I try so hard not to laugh
    As I lay my arms around her
    I always knew it would be
    A dance of demise and forever amity
    Disgusted faces in my mirror
    Telling me to stab my own soul
    I turn to watch the body behind me
    But I notice she's already gone
    Let me see your dead lands
    I call unto your light
    This light is blinds me
    Still I climb higher than this
    To feed the dark
    It rips me open
    It blinds me
    Back from the journey outside
    I need the walls to protect me
    And as a goddess enters my pride
    I'll give her what she wants.....
    Underthis dead and faded sun
    Frozen
    I disappear and turn to stone
    Wake me now




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