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Swan Lake Four Years
1,251 wordsDancer and choreographer Anton Dolin has been called "one of the most colorful and vital figures in modern ballet. " As a member of internationally known ballet companies or as director of his own troupes, this British-born artist has toured Europe and America for the past twenty years. Anton Dolin, originally Patrick Healey-Kay, was born on July 27, 1904, in Slinfold, Sussex, England. He is one of the three sons of George Henry and Helen Maude (Healey) Kay. When he was ten years of age his pare...
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Form Of Dancing Swan Lake Ballet
567 wordsOct. 17 th 1999 The history of Dance is said to reflect the changes in the way people relate to their bodies, see the world, and experience the cycles of life. Cave paintings from 30, 000 - 10, 000 B. C. were found in Spain and France. These paintings contained drawings of figures with vivid movements. During the Ancient world dance was in civilizations of Rome, Greece, and Egypt. Through the Middle Ages the Christen Church's attitude toward Dance was two sided. One side rejected dance, they bel...
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Facial Expressions Left Foot
918 wordsLyrical and ballet are both extremely common yet incredibly different types of dance. They both differ from each other for numerous reasons. Before ballerinas begin their extensive class, the instructor warms the dancers muscles up at the barre. A barre is a long wooden horizontal rail attached to the wall and is approximately the height of the dancers rib cage. When the dancer is at the barre, they practice such combinations as plies, ton dues, declares, frappes, and grand bahamas, just to name...
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Acceptance Of Ballet In America Ballet In America Ballets
354 wordsThe Impact of the Ballets Russes on the Style and Acceptance of Ballet in America Introduction The Ballets Russes triumphantly entered the history of ballet. Although Diaghilev's The Ballets Russes was a subject of much controversy, its great impact on the history of ballet in general and the history of American ballet is difficult to underestimate. From the very beginning of ballet the viewer could enjoy ballet scenes only as a part of plays called Extravaganza. They were made in a form of sump...
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Moved To New York Miss Lee
2,277 wordsDance has been a part of human history since the earliest records of human life (Praagh 30). Cave paintings found in Spain and France from 30, 000 - 10, 000 BC had life-like drawings of dancing figures participating in rituals. They illustrated the prominence of dance in early human society. Later in the Renaissance Era a new attitude towards the body, the arts, and dance was originated. The courts of Italy and France became the center of new developments in dance, providing support to dancing m...
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Ballets Russes York City
1,299 wordsDANCING AND BALLET Dancing is the art of moving the body in time to music. Dancing is both an art and a form of recreation. Most people dance to have fun or to entertain others, but dance can also be used for communication. Dancers express feelings of joy without saying a word. Since prehistoric times people have danced, and there are lots of kinds of dancing. There is folk dancing and religious dancing, popular dancing and theatrical dancing, to name a few. Out of all dancing, theatrical is pro...
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Ballets Russes Twentieth Century
1,234 wordsHe fancied a Diaghilev Diaghilev He fancied a career in music, but was a terrible composer. He wanted to be a painter, but lacked vision and aptitude. He wanted to change the face of dance, but had no dance training whatsoever. By his own admission, this poor, misguided soul had no real gifts. He went on to become one of the most influential artistic figures of the twentieth century. Despite his claim to the contrary, Serge Diaghilev, founder of the famous Diaghilev Ballets Russes, had many gift...
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York City Ballet School Of American Ballet Balanchine
948 wordsGeorge Balanchine, or originally Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze, a Russian-born choreographer, is recognized as one of the foremost choreographers in the history of ballet. George was among a generation of dancers who spent the years of World War 1 at the Imperial school of ballet at the Mariinsky theatre. George was the son of a composer, and he also studied music from 1921 to 1924 at the Petrograd Conservatory in St. Petersburg. As a student Balanchine had already tried choreography. His fi...
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Louis Xiv Three Companies
1,435 wordsA History of Ballet in Canada Magnificence, extravagance, artificiality, a tiny society in which everyone knew every detail of everyone s life. The preceding sentence best described the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, and it was into that world that professional ballet was born. Louis was an accomplished dancer and appeared in many court ballets from the age of twelve until he was thirty-two. Though he continued to perform his favorite ballroom dances, various affairs, such as his sense of roy...
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Supernatural Livelihood Taglioni Wished Supernatural Livelihood Taglioni James
1,616 wordsLa Sylphide La Sylphide brought more than just another ballet into the world. It marks the beginning of a remarkable period of time the Romantics. Up until this time in history, ballets were relatively predictable and in no ways a challenge to the status quo. Often times they consisted of the pavane, social dances, and the like (Anderson 38). Of course, ballet had evolved, but it had by no means, been a challenge to society. La Sylphide began to alter this concept. The setting is France in 1832....
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