Marius Petipa

Don Quixote The Ballet performance Don Quixote is based on the worldwide known novel ‘Don Quixote de la Mancha’ by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally performed by the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow and choreographed by Marius Petipa in the year of 1869 with the music of Ludwig Minkus. Now days there are numerous Ballets performing it all over the world. The Miami City Ballet has adopted this performance as part of their season content, giving the Spanish play a hint of Latin American taste with several

Sleeping Beauty is a classic movie that was transformed into a ballet play. Where a new princess is born to King Florestan XIV and his wife, the entire kingdom rejoices. At a ceremony, three good fairies bestow gifts of magic on the child. But an evil sorceress named Carabosse shows up, and curse on the princess - that she will die before sunset on her 16th birthday after pricking her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle. Only her true love can save her. This play took place in Detroit Opera House

For my final exam essay, I have selected to write about Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is an extremely popular piece of music that I feel most people have heard before. This piece is especially popular for Television commercials right now because of Christmas coming up, which is when The Nutcracker is usually performed. The original composer was P.I. Tchaikovsky, a Russian composer during the Romantic period. Tchaikovsky composed eleven operas, three ballets

than in Western Europe where opera was preferred. It was under this climate that Russian ballet led the way in classical dance with such famous stars as Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Foskine and the legendary Nijinsky, who all trained with the Frenchman Marius Petipa at the St Petersburg Imperial Ballet.

Emma Weber Instructor Miller Speech 96-111 April 7, 2015 The Evolution of Ballet Influential philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, stated that “the human body is the best picture of the human soul.” A great example of the human body portraying the soul is through the art of ballet. From the Cambridge Dictionary Online, ballet can be defined as “a type of dancing in which controlled movements of the body are designed to express the beauty of physical motion, often while telling a story, or a piece of

The Russian National Ballet was founded in 1989 by Sergei Radchenko, former star of the Bolshoi Ballet. Radchenko and his wife, who run the company together, decided to tour in smaller groups, to reach audiences in smaller cities around the globe and bring beautiful ballet to everyone. Founded when Russia was known as the USSR, the company was government owned, but allowed Sergei, an honored artist, to start and operate the company. Sergei and his wife, Elena found success with this company, and

The 19th Century During the Romantic Movement in the first half of the 19th century, early classical ballets such as La Sylphide, which became “a ballet that changed choreographic history and introduced a new era” (Brinson and Crisp 22), and Giselle were created. This movement which was concerned with the supernatural world of spirits and magic and often showed women as passive and fragile; influenced art, music and ballet. Woman as passive and fragile were reflected in the ballets of the time and

Ballet 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

American dancer Isadora Duncan once said, “The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace…“ (Needham, 2002, p. 199). Contrary to her belief, after more than 80 years later, today ballet has flourished and become a important part of Americaan dance culture. It is no longer a foreign image to see American girls in tutus and leotards taking ballet lessons at a young age. However, ballet was not

Today’s ballets are nothing like what they were at first. Ballet has changed over time. A great deal of Ballet dances, at Ballet’s beginning were based off of court dances. Court dances were social dances performed in court, usually between a man and woman. They are also known as ballroom dances. Ballet has grown from being a court dance for the nobles to a sophisticated complex art many can enjoy watching or dancing it. It is often believed that the beginnings of ballet started with Queen Catherine