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Ballet spectacular : a young ballet lover's guide and an insight into a magical world
An introduction to ballet features facts on the dance discipline's history, basic steps, costumes, and famous dancers, and includes details of iconic performances from the Royal Ballet.
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Ballet and opera in the age of Giselle
Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age ofGiselleat the Paris Opéra (from the 1830s through the 1840s), Smith offers an unprecedented look at the structural and thematic relationship between the two genres. She argues that a deeper understanding of both ballet and opera--and of nineteenth-century theater-going culture in general--may be gained by examining them within the same framework instead of following the usual practice of telling their histories separately. This handsomely illustrated book ultimately provides a new portrait of the Opéra during a period long celebrated for its box-office successes in both genres.
Smith begins by showing how gestures were encoded in the musical language that composers used in ballet and in opera. She moves on to a wide range of topics, including the relationship between the gestures of the singers and the movements of the dancers, and the distinction between dance that represents dancing (entertainment staged within the story of the opera) and dance that represents action. Smith maintains that ballet-pantomime and opera continued to rely on each other well into the nineteenth century, even as they thrived independently. The \"divorce\" between the two arts occurred little by little, and may be traced through unlikely sources: controversies in the press about the changing nature of ballet-pantomime music, shifting ideas about originality, complaints about the ridiculousness of pantomime, and a little-known rehearsal score forGiselle.
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Ballet for beginners : featuring the School of American Ballet
A cartoon ballerina named Prima Princessa hosts this introduction to the art form. Photographs feature the essential steps of becoming a professional, all taken at the School of American Ballet in New York City. Ballerinas demonstrate poses and steps for readers to replicate, as the text describes each technique.
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Ballet in the Court Theatre of Michał Kazimierz Ogiński
The article deals with the theatrical activities of Prince Michał Kazimierz Ogiński (1730–1800) focusing on ballet performances produced in his court in Slanim. Research centres on the ballet Philosophy of Women, the hand-written libretto of which belongs to the Manuscript Department of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. The author presents new information about other productions of Felice Moryni, the choreographer of The Philosophy of Women, and compares its libretto with the libretto of the ballet of the same title produced in Venice by the Italian dancer Anna Beneti. The dramatic scheme of the performance and its possible visual forms, which are linked to the aesthetics of late Baroque and Rococo, are discussed.
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The ballet lover's companion
\"This engaging book is an up-to-date guide to 140 of the most brilliant ballets seen on the stage today--from Swan Lake to The Firebird and Polyphonia. A separate entry for each ballet provides a wealth of facts and insights, including tips on what to look for during a performance\"--Back cover.
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Balanchine and Kirstein's American enterprise
George Balanchine is today one of the most celebrated figures in twentieth-century ballet and is closely identified with the two institutions he helped found in collaboration with Lincoln Kirstein: the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet. During the early years of their efforts in the 1930s, Balanchine and Kirstein’s enterprise underwent numerous changes and transformations. The complexity of their endeavors has been misrepresented in many existing accounts of their lives and careers, in part because their activities have not been assessed as a whole. This book chronicles Balanchine’s and Kirstein’s work between 1933 and 1940 in the spheres of ballet, opera, Broadway musicals, and Hollywood cinema. This new account shows the ways in which their collective and individual efforts influenced and affected one another and ultimately shaped the character of the institutions they would eventually found. The work of the short-lived organizations the American Ballet (1935–38) and Ballet Caravan (1936–40) brought together dozens of dancers and collaborators, and the activity of these companies was closely related to work of the School of American Ballet as well as Balanchine’s projects in Broadway musical theater and film.
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Today's ballet
\"Get to know the plie, arabesque, and other basic steps, and see how ballet has changed over the years. From Anna Pavlova to Mikhail Baryshnikov to Misty Copeland, discover the dancers who added their signature style to this graceful dance form. Go behind the curtain to see what it takes to become a prima ballerina and how a performance comes together\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Estudio comparativo del perfil fuerza-velocidad con diferentes posiciones de partida del salto vertical en danza
El objetivo del presente trabajo fue comparar las variables mecánicas del perfil fuerza-velocidad durante el salto partiendo de una posición en dehors frente a una posición en paralelo en estudiantes del grado universitario en Danza. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 22 bailarinas con 10,7±5,96 años de experiencia. Se realizó un test de salto vertical en el que cada participante ejecutó ocho saltos con incrementos progresivos de carga, alternando las posiciones de pies en dehors y en paralelo. Todos los saltos fueron grabados con un iPad a 240 Hz, y posteriormente analizados con la aplicación para iOS MyJump2. Se analizaron las variables: altura del salto, fuerza teórica máxima, velocidad teórica máxima, potencia máxima, perfil fuera-velocidad. Los resultados mostraron una diferencia entre la altura del salto partiendo de la posición en dehors frente a la posición de paralelo (en dehors: 18,8±3,44 vs paralelo: 20,3±3,57 cm; p=0,002). El análisis del perfil fuerza-velocidad mostró un déficit fuerza en ambas situaciones, siendo más acentuado cuando el salto se ejecutada desde una posición de partida en dehors (en dehors: 43,0±46,24 % vs paralelo: 70,9±21,21%; p=0,022). La individualización de los programas de entrenamiento centrados en reducir el desequilibrio de cada bailarina y en cada posición, podría ayudar a las bailarinas a mejorar la altura del salto y, por tanto, el rendimiento de la danza.
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Celestial bodies : how to look at ballet
\"As much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad--in Russia, Italy, and France. In [this book], dance critic Laura Jacobs makes the foreign familiar, providing [an] ... accessible introduction to the world of classical dance\"-- Provided by publisher.
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