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Article: Classical.(future of classical ballet)(Editorial)
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- Dance Magazine
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- January 1, 1997
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Is classical dance an endangered species? Given the relatively healthy state of ballet and other forms of dance in communities across America, is the immediate future of classical dance even an issue? Concern over this question has generated a symposium this month in Lausanne, Switzerland, called, "What is the future for classical dance?" It poses some interesting ideas worth exploring.
What do we mean when we talk about classical ballet? Strictly speaking, in Western dance, the classical period refers to the second half of the nineteenth century when such works a, Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and The Nut-cracker e created in Russia. The classical ...