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Académie Royale de Danse
The Académie Royale de Danse, founded by letters patent on the initiative of King Louis XIV of France in March 1661, was the first dance institution established in the Western world.
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Acting
Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode.
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Adam Darius
Adam Darius (10 May 1930 – 3 December 2017) was an American dancer, mime artist, writer and choreographer.
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Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
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Agrippina Vaganova
Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova (Агриппина Яковлевна Ваганова; 26 June 1879 – 5 November 1951) was a Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method – the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old Imperial Ballet School (today the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet) under the Premier Maître de Ballet Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century, though mostly throughout the 1880s and 1890s.
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Albert Roussel
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer.
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Alonzo King
Alonzo King, born in Georgia to civil-rights activists Slater King and Valencia King Nelson, is an American dancer and choreographer based in San Francisco, CA.
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Alonzo King LINES Ballet
The Alonzo King LINES Ballet (AKLB) is an American contemporary ballet company based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City.
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Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlovna (Matveyevna) Pavlova (Анна Павловна (Матвеевна) Павлова; – January 23, 1931) was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries.
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Antoine Bournonville
Antoine Bournonville (19 May 1760 – 11 January 1843) was a French ballet dancer a choreographer, active in the Royal Swedish Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet and eventually ballet master in the latter.
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Apollo (ballet)
Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as Apollo musagetes, Apolo Musageta, and Apollo, Leader of the Muses) is a neoclassical ballet in two tableaux composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky.
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Arthur Mitchell (dancer)
Arthur Mitchell (born March 27, 1934) is an African-American dancer and choreographer who created a training school and the first African-American classical ballet company, Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH).
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August Bournonville
August Bournonville (21 August 1805 – 30 November 1879) was a Danish ballet master and choreographer.
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Balanchine method
Balanchine method is a commonly used alternative name for Balanchine technique, a ballet performance style invented by George Balanchine (1904-1983) during his long career as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher.
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Ballet blanc
In ballet, a ballet blanc ("white ballet") is a scene in which the ballerina and the female corps de ballet all wear white dresses or tutus.
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Ballet company
A ballet company is a type of dance troupe which performs classical ballet, neoclassical ballet, and/or contemporary ballet in the European tradition, plus managerial and support staff.
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Ballet dancer
A ballet dancer (ballerina fem., ballerino masc.) is a person who practices the art of classical ballet.
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Ballet master
Ballet Master (also Balletmaster, Ballet Mistress, Premier Maître de ballet or Premier Maître de ballet en Chef) is the term used for an employee of a ballet company who is responsible for the level of competence of the dancers in their company.
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Ballet technique
Ballet technique is the foundational principles of body movement and form used in ballet.
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Ballets de cour
Ballet de cour (court ballet) is the name given to ballets performed in the 16th and 17th centuries at courts.
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Ballets Russes
The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company based in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America.
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Ballon (ballet)
Ballon is the appearance of being lightweight and light-footed while jumping.
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Bournonville method
The Bournonville method is a ballet technique and training system devised by the Danish ballet master August Bournonville.
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British ballet
British ballet is most recognised for two leading methods, those of the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Academy of Dance.
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Catherine de' Medici
Catherine de Medici (Italian: Caterina de Medici,; French: Catherine de Médicis,; 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589), daughter of Lorenzo II de' Medici and Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, was an Italian noblewoman who was queen of France from 1547 until 1559, by marriage to King Henry II.
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César Franck
César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life.
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Cecchetti method
The Cecchetti method is variously defined as a style of classical ballet and as a ballet training method devised by the Italian ballet master Enrico Cecchetti (1850–1928).
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Choreography (dance)
In dance, choreography is the act of designing dance.
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Classical ballet
Classical ballet is any of the traditional, formal styles of ballet that exclusively employ classical ballet technique.
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Classical music
Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.
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Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Complexions Contemporary Ballet is a contemporary ballet company founded in 1994 by Co-Artistic Directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson based in New York City comprising about 14 classical and contemporary dancers.
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Concert dance
Concert dance (also known as performance dance or theatre dance in the United Kingdom) is dance performed for an audience.
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Contemporary ballet
Contemporary ballet is a genre of dance that incorporates elements of classical ballet and modern dance.
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Coppélia
Coppélia (sometimes subtitled: The Girl With The Enamel Eyes) is a comic ballet originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter.
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Dance and health
Dance is an enjoyable health promoting physical activity which many people worldwide incorporate into their lifestyles today.
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Deuce Coupe
Deuce Coupe is a ballet by choreographer Twyla Tharp, set to music by the Beach Boys, for the Joffrey Ballet.
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Diminutive
A diminutive is a word that has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment.
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Enrico Cecchetti
Enrico Cecchetti (21 June 1850 in Rome – 13 November 1928 in Milan) was an Italian ballet dancer, mime, and founder of the Cecchetti method.
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Episodes (ballet)
Episodes is a two-part ballet made by Martha Graham and George Balanchine to Anton von Webern's Symphony, Op.
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Erik Bruhn
Erik Belton Evers Bruhn (3 October 1928 – 1 April 1986) was a Danish danseur, choreographer, artistic director, actor, and author.
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Fanny Elssler
Fanny Elssler (born Franziska Elßler; 23 June 1810 - 27 November 1884) was an Austrian ballerina of the Romantic Period.
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Frederick Ashton
Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton (17 September 190418 August 1988) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer.
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French ballet
In the French courts during the 17th Century, ballet first begins to flourish with the help of several important men: King Louis XIV, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Pierre Beauchamps, and Molière.
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Galina Ulanova
Galína Sergéyevna Ulánova (Гали́на Серге́евна Ула́нова, 21 March 1998) was a Russian ballet dancer.
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Gelsey Kirkland
Gelsey Kirkland (born December 29, 1952) is an American ballerina.
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George Balanchine
George Balanchine (born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; January 22, 1904April 30, 1983) was a choreographer.
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Gerald Arpino
Gerald Arpino (January 14, 1923 – October 29, 2008) was an American dancer and choreographer.
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Giselle
Giselle (French: Giselle, ou les Wilis) is a romantic ballet in two acts.
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Glen Tetley
Glen Tetley (February 3, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio – January 26, 2007 in Florida) was an American ballet and modern dancer as well as a choreographer who mixed ballet and modern dance to create a new way of looking at dance, and is best known for his piece Pierrot Lunaire.
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Glossary of ballet
Because ballet became formalized in France, a significant part of ballet terminology is in the French language.
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Greek language
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
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Hiplet (dance style)
Hiplet is a newly recognized dance style that fuses ballet with hip hop.
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Impressing the Czar
Impressing the Czar is a four-act, award-winning, postmodern Judith Mackrell, The Guardian, 7 November 2008 ballet choreographed by William Forsythe to music by Thom Willems, Leslie Stuck, Eva Crossman-Hecht, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Italian ballet
Italian ballet is the training methods and aesthetic qualities seen in classical ballet in Italy.
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Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance (Rinascimento) was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy during the 14th century (Trecento) and lasted until the 17th century (Seicento), marking the transition between Medieval and Modern Europe.
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully (born Giovanni Battista Lulli,; 28 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, instrumentalist, and dancer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France.
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Jean-Georges Noverre
Jean-Georges Noverre (29 April 1727 19 October 1810) was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century.
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Jiří Kylián
Jiří Kylián (born 21 March 1947) is a Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer.
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Jules Perrot
Jules-Joseph Perrot (18 August 1810 – 29 August 1892) was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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La Sylphide
La Sylphide (The Sylph; Sylfiden) is a romantic ballet in two acts.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Lev Ivanov
Lev Ivanovich Ivanov (Лев Ива́нович Ива́нов; 2 March 1834, Moscow – 24 December 1901, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer and later, Second Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet.
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List of ballets by title
The following is a list of ballets with entries in English Wikipedia.
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List of Cambridge Companions to Music
The Cambridge Companions to Music form a book series published by Cambridge University Press.
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Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
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Margot Fonteyn
Dame Margot Fonteyn, DBE (18 May 191921 February 1991), stage name of Margaret Evelyn de Arias was an English ballerina.
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Maria Tallchief
Elizabeth Marie "Betty" TallChief (Osage family name: Ki He Kah Stah Tsa; January 24, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American ballerina.
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Marie Taglioni
Marie Taglioni, Comtesse Gilbert de Voisins (23 April 1804 – 22 April 1884) was a Swedish ballet dancer of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of European dance.
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Mariinsky Ballet
The Mariinsky Ballet is the resident classical ballet company of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Marius Petipa
Marius Ivanovich Petipa (Russian: Ма́риус Ива́нович Петипа́), born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (11 March 1818) was a French and Russian ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer.
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Martha Graham
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer.
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Matthew Bourne
Sir Matthew Christopher Bourne OBE (born 13 January 1960) is an English choreographer.
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Maya Plisetskaya
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Ма́йя Миха́йловна Плисе́цкая; 20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015) was a Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress, who held in post-Soviet times Spanish and Lithuanian citizenship.
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Miami City Ballet
Miami City Ballet is an American ballet company based in Miami Beach, Florida, led by artistic director Lourdes Lopez.
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Michel Fokine
Michael Fokine (a French transliteration Michel Fokine; English transliteration Mikhail Fokin; Михаи́л Миха́йлович Фо́кин, Mikhaíl Mikháylovich Fokín) (– 22 August 1942) was a groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (p; Mihails Barišņikovs; born January 27, 1948), nicknamed "Misha" (Russian diminutive of the name "Mikhail"), is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor.
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Mime artist
A mime or mime artist (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor") is a person who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.
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Modern dance
Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance, primarily arising out of Germany and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Music
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
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Nacho Duato
Juan Ignacio Duato Bárcia, also known as Nacho Duato (born 8 January 1957 in Valencia) is a Spanish modern ballet dancer and choreographer.
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Natalia Makarova
Natalia Romanovna Makarova (Ната́лия Рома́новна Мака́рова, born 21 November 1940) is a Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina and choreographer.
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Nederlands Dans Theater
Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT; literal translation Dutch Dance Theatre) is a Dutch contemporary dance company.
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Neoclassical ballet
Neoclassical ballet is the style of 20th-century classical ballet exemplified by the works of George Balanchine.
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Neoclassicism (music)
Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the interwar period, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint.
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New Adventures
New Adventures is a British dance company, specialising in contemporary dance.
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New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.
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Paris Opera
The Paris Opera (French) is the primary opera company of France.
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Paris Opera Ballet
The Paris Opera Ballet (French: "Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris") is an integral part of the Paris Opera and the oldest national ballet company.
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Paul Taylor (choreographer)
Paul Taylor (born July 29, 1930) is an American choreographer.
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Pierre Beauchamp
Pierre Beauchamp (also Beauchamps, called "Charles" or Charles-Louis Beauchamp) (30 October 1631 – February 1705) was a French choreographer, dancer and composer, and the probable inventor of Beauchamp-Feuillet notation.
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Pointe shoe
A pointe shoe is a type of shoe worn by ballet dancers when performing pointe work.
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Pointe technique
Pointe technique is the part of classical ballet technique that concerns pointe work, in which a ballet dancer supports all body weight on the tips of fully extended feet within pointe shoes.
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Post-structuralism
Post-structuralism is associated with the works of a series of mid-20th-century French, continental philosophers and critical theorists who came to be known internationally in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Proscenium
A proscenium (προσκήνιον) is the metaphorical vertical plane of space in a theatre, usually surrounded on the top and sides by a physical proscenium arch (whether or not truly "arched") and on the bottom by the stage floor itself, which serves as the frame into which the audience observes from a more or less unified angle the events taking place upon the stage during a theatrical performance.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English.
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Robert Joffrey
Robert Joffrey (December 24, 1930 – March 25, 1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets.
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Romantic ballet
The Romantic ballet is defined primarily by an era in ballet in which the ideas of Romanticism in art and literature influenced the creation of ballets.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Rosella Hightower
Rosella Hightower (January 10, 1920 – November 4, 2008) was an American ballerina who achieved fame in both the United States and Europe.
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Royal Academy of Dance
The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is a UK-based examination board specialising in dance education and training, with an emphasis on classical ballet.
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Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (Рудольф Хәмит улы Нуриев Rudolf Xämid ulı Nuriyev, p; 17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet ballet and contemporary dancer and choreographer.
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Russian ballet
Russian ballet (Ballet russe) is a form of ballet characteristic of or originating from Russia.
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School of American Ballet
The School of American Ballet (SAB) is an American classical ballet school and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.
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Sergei Diaghilev
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavɫovʲɪtɕ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.
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Spanish National Dance Company
The Spanish National Dance Company, (Compañía Nacional de Danza), was founded in 1979, originally as under the name of Ballet Nacional de España Clásico.
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Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell (born August 16, 1945) is an American ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Farrell began her ballet training at the age of eight.
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Swan Lake (1895)
The 1917 Petipa/Ivanov/Drigo revival of Swan Lake is a famous version of the ballet Swan Lake, (ru. Лебединое Озеро), (fr. Le Lac des Cygnes).
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Symphonic Variations (ballet)
Symphonic Variations is a one-act ballet by Frederick Ashton set to the eponymous music (M. 46) of César Franck.
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The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.
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The Forsythe Company
The Forsythe Company is a dance ensemble of eighteen dancers based in Dresden, Germany.
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The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker (Щелкунчик, Балет-феерия / Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya; Casse-Noisette, ballet-féerie) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (op. 71).
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Tutu (clothing)
The modern tutu is a dress worn as a costume in a ballet performance, often with attached bodice.
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Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City.
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Vaganova method
The Vaganova method is a ballet technique and training system devised by the Russian dancer and pedagogue Agrippina Vaganova (1879–1951).
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Western stereotype of the male ballet dancer
Since the early 19th century, the western world has adopted a view of male ballet dancers, or danseurs as weak, effeminate or homosexual.
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William Forsythe (choreographer)
William Forsythe (born December 30, 1949 in New York City) is an American dancer and choreographer resident in Frankfurt am Main in Hessen.
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Work of art
A work of art, artwork, art piece, piece of art or art object is an aesthetic physical item or artistic creation.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballet
