Classical Ballet

Myriam Perea Soto 2ºBach.BC

Outline

What is ballet? Some History

› Origins› Professional dancers

Dancers and their training› Characteristics› Ballet Lessons› Dressing up

Ballet dancers technique› Basic Positions› Centre work

Famous dancers and companies

Ballet stories and videos

What is ballet?

Form of dancing Many unnatural

movements Women on tips of

their toes Men lift women Work team

Some history

Origins

Origins: Italy(Reinassance) Fancy entertaiments Not proffesional dancers Masks and costumes Catherine de Medicis (queen

of France) Ballet Comique de la Reine King Louis XIV founded Royal

Academy of dancing.

Proffesional dancers No more masks Plots and characters with their bodies Pointe shoes Russian Imperial Ballet of St Petersbourg La Sylphide (1832) New fashion Marius Petipa Russian Revolution(inmigration)

Dancers and their training

Characteristics

6-8 years old Proffesional

before 20, retire by 45

Flexible,slim body Mental

characteristics (rythm,understanding)

Express moods

Ballet lessons

Daily class,before performance

Estructure› Bare (Strengthem and strech)› Centre work› Fast steps› Jumps for boys› Pointe work for girls

Going on pointe

Feet strong Strained kneejoints or back If feet not strong you wear flat shoes

Dressing up

Two types of tutu Class:maillot,tights,flat shoe,pointe shoe

Ballet dancers technique

Basic Positions

Every step begins or ends with one of these positions

Centre work

Famous dancers and companies

The Royal Ballet Royal Opera House Covent Garden Ninette de Valois founded in 1931 Frederik Ashton Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Alicia Markova Tamara Rojo

The Bolshoi Ballet

Bolshoi Theatre Moscow Founded in 1776 Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya, Vaslav Nijinsky.

Ballet de l´Opera de Paris

Founded in 1661 Louis XIV, Jean Baptiste Lully Marie Taglioni, Sylvie Guillem.

Ballet Stories

Giselle(1841) Choreography: Coralli and Perrot Music: Adam Giselle loves Count Albrecht. Her mother wants her to marry

Hilarion,woodcutter. Hilarion discovers Albrecht´s fiancé Giselle kills herself.

Don Quixote (1869)

Choreography: Petipa Music: Minkus Kitri is engaged with Gamache, Don Quixote falls

in love with Kitri. Kitri loves Basilio They marry and run away.

Romeo and Juliet (1965)

Choreographer: McMillan Music: Prokofiev Based on Shakespeare´s

play Two lovers whose families

are in a terrible fight.

Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1JOJCiLVEM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0X24z4xjVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw1OAP0BqTU&feature=related