Article: ballet

Article: ballet
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music;      700+ words ...ballet. Entertainment in which dancers, by use of mime, etc., perform to mus. to tell a story or to express a mood. The ballet was largely developed in the courts of Fr. and It. during...x2013;1715), where Lully was in charge of the mus. The ballets of this period were danced by the court itself and were...

Article: Attitudes.(Michael Fokine, father of the modern ballet, coreographer)
Dance Magazine;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......dancer Charles Weidman (1901-1975) and, from classical ballet, Walter Core (1910-1979) were both very interesting...rough deal from posterity as those heroes of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Michel Fokine and Leonide Massine. Both were...Jean-Georges Noverre, who was incontestably the father of modern ...

Article: Ballet
Encyclopedia of Russian History;      700+ words ...BALLET The origins of the Russian ballet, like those of most other Western art forms, can be traced to eighteenth-centu...school, whose descendant is the present-day Academy of Russian Ballet, was headed by a series of European dancing masters, the first...

Article: Harvey Hysell: the quiet hero of classical ballet.(Great Starts)(American Teacher Series)(A Tribute to Teachers Who Have Produced Outstanding Results)(Cover Story)
Dance Magazine;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......ever there was a quiet hero of classical ballet, it is Harvey Hysell. He has been called...citywide Big Easy awards for classical ballet, including one for Lifetime achievement...of character and stretch classes, only ballet and pointe are taught during Ballet Hysell...

Article: Beyond ballet: two devoted ballet students explain their transitions to modern dance.
Dance Magazine;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...I only thought I'd be a ballet dancer, says Sara Lepere. I had never even considered anything...choreography, was just as physically and artistically challenging as ballet. In ballet, people always say that ballet is the best, that there are other...

Article: BOSTON BALLET.(Review)
Dance Magazine;  January 1, 2000 ;     484 words ...BOSTON BALLET WANG THEATRE BOSTON, MASS. OCTOBER 14-24...wonder that the opening program of Boston Ballet's thirty-sixth season attracted attention...Christopher Wheeldon, the hot twenty-six-year-old ballet performer and choreographer, premiered...

Article: CAPE TOWN'S.(ballet dancers of Cape Town, South Africa)(Brief Article)
Dance Magazine;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Damane share more than their passion for ballet. Besides being cousins, both grew up in...they share a dream of becoming principal ballet dancers in South Africa. Making their...shrug their shoulders, smile, and say, Ballet is my life. Tchaikovsky and arabesques...

Article: Pimp my pirouette: Atlanta Ballet premieres production with Big Boi
AP Worldstream;  April 4, 2008 ;     700 words ......past few months, dancers in the Atlanta Ballet have been pimping out the pirouette, breaking...Big Boi and the graceful traditions of ballet. I just thought it would be ... cool...and Andre 3000 _ probably didn't have ballet in mind when they wrote tracks like Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik...

Article: Dancing Diana.(Ballet about Princess Diana)
Dance Magazine;  August 1, 2003 ;     579 words ......Few people would have guessed that there would also be a ballet, but Danish audiences are currently enjoying the antics...the members of the House of Windsor in a new full-length ballet by Peter Schaufuss. Negotiations are underway to take...sensitive subject and which he would characterize as a modern ...

Article: ROYAL BALLET.(Brief Article)(Review)
Dance Magazine;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...ROYAL BALLET SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE LONDON, ENGLAND JULY 6-31, 1999...Dance Magazine) A short bus trip away from the Bolshoi Ballet's summer season at the London Coliseum, the Royal Ballet was returning to its roots at Sadler's Wells, but to...

Article: CINDERELLA - and the fellas.(Entertainment)(Eugene Ballet rolls a bit of slapstick into the classic story, with male dancers as the ugly stepsisters)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  February 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Fred Crafts The Register-Guard For Eugene Ballet artistic director and choreographer Toni...those two clumsy Ugly Stepsisters in her ballet ``Cinderella'' are danced by a couple...know how much humor to project into a ballet like `Cinderella,' ' Pimble says. Ballet...

Article: Boston, Tchaikovsky, and birthdays. (Boston Ballet celebrates its 30th anniversary produces a Tchaikovsky Festival in honor of the 100th anniversary of the composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's death) (Column)
Dance Magazine;  January 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......was, in fact, far more intersted in opera than in ballet, but for all that his music dances as much as it signs...the symphonies. However, it is with his three major ballet scores, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping...of Igor Stravinsky--has left a deeper impression on ballet, particularly when ...

Article: The multiple choices of Melissa Hough: ballet? Jazz? Tap? Hip-hop? How about all of the above?(teenage dancer currently apprenticing with Boston Ballet II)(Interview)
Dance Magazine;  September 1, 2003 ;     491 words ...If you could apprentice with a ballet company, perform in a Broadway show, or...18-year-old Maryland native excels in ballet, jazz, lyrical, hip-hop, and tap, and...2002 from the former Kirov Academy of Ballet (now the Universal Ballet Academy) in...

Article: HOUSTON BALLET AND BOSTON BALLET.(Review)
Dance Magazine;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...HOUSTON BALLET AND BOSTON BALLET BROWN THEATER, HOUSTON MARCH 4-14, 1999 SHUBERT THEATRE, BOSTON...moment its two chief contenders are Stanton Welch of The Australian Ballet and Christopher Wheeldon of New York City Ballet (via Britain's...