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BALLET

BALLET. King Louis XIV (Baroque). Louis loved ballet! Dance Academy positions of the feet & arms standardized Dancers wore heels Dance was court ettiquette http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/divideos.html#vc022 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/divideos.html#vc023

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BALLET

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  1. BALLET

  2. King Louis XIV (Baroque) • Louis loved ballet! • Dance Academy • positions of the feet & arms standardized • Dancers wore heels • Dance was court ettiquette • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/divideos.html#vc022 • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/divideos.html#vc023 • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/divideos.html#vc025

  3. As time went by… • Early ballets were part of Opera • Actual WOMEN began to play women • Skirts shortened • Heels went away—flat slippers instead • Corsets banished; wore flowing skirts • Partnering began • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8__iRsxG_A • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6CWWFGd4f0

  4. ROMANTIC ERA • New subjects for ballet • beauty vs. ugliness • good vs. evil • emotion • Ethereal look • Pointe • Turnout • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnRTodDNRr4

  5. Russia Marius Petipa created 60 ballets evening length ballets of several acts with lots of stage effects http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcqymSuYMM Tchaikovsky worked with Petipa Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty The Nutcracker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z3vvmuCuDg Extravagant, jeweled costumes Pas de deux (Dance of Two) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6CWWFGd4f0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8__iRsxG_A

  6. Tchaikovsky Marius Petipa

  7. Sleeping Beauty Swan Lake

  8. Michel Fokine • Danced under Petipa • Urged more harmony between dance and other artistic elements • Created: • Scheherazade • The Firebird • Spector of the Rose • Petrouchka • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_RC7dJ_Ig

  9. BALLET RUSSES • Serge Diaghilev • Could gather artistic talent • (e.g. Fokine) • Collections of short programs and coordinated other art forms • Brought Russian ballet to world • Performed in Paris

  10. Karsavina, Diagilev,Fokineafter the first night of ballet"Petrushka" (Punch). 1929

  11. Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova • Many fell in love with ballet because they had seen Pavlova • Famous for “Dying Swan” • Nijinsky did “crazy” (risqué) things onstage • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1g7VAt-Nk • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE1FR-Dj5K4 Nijinsky in Le Dieu Bleu Anna Pavlova

  12. AMERICA • George Balanchine • founder of NYCB and School of American Ballet • seldom had a story line • very simple “pure dance” ballets • stretched classical technique • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXA6nyqN9t4 • His Nutcracker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSeAIhlmm7o • Modern: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IOBglx2X3I

  13. Mikhail Baryshnikov • Russian • Defected to USA in 1970s • Known for incredible athleticism, jumps & leaps • Starred in Sex & the City, White Nights • Pirouettes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wop6Joz0POI • Don Quixote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GksQygQnk4

  14. Ballet Exit Slip Look back at the characteristics of the three periods of ballet we studied today (Baroque, Romantic, and Modern)… Draw one picture for each period that represents a characteristic from the period and then explain how what you drew represents the characteristic. Next, explain how ballet during the Romantic period meets fits with the characteristics of Romanticism.

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