Ballet NYC - Histoy and Mission
The Histoy and Mission of the New Yok City Ballet
Edga Degas's painting, entitled Dance Class at the Opea, shows fou women dessed in beautiful, almost etheeal looking ballet desses, complete with sashes at the waist and pefect buns.
Some of the women ae waiting and othes ae pepaing fo what the viewe believes, will be a fantastic pogam. Degas was able to potay movement, passion, and the belief that the balleinas wee pepaing fo something in such a distinctive, yet pesuasive way, that the viewe can't help but be pulled into the painting. This is often the case with ballet, a fom of at, of dance, unpaalleled by othes, yet studied by many. The gace, discipline and pain that come with ballet ae not only studied, but should be admied as well. As a shot intoduction to ballet, this pape will focus on the New Yok…...
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American-born choreographers and dancers also added to the development of American ballet. "Choreographers such as Ruth Page, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins created dances to specifically American themes. American dancers who have gained fame in the 1900's include Maria Tallchief, Suzanne Farrell, Cynthia Gregory, Edward Villella, and Arthur Mitchell" (Ballet History, 2006).
Ballet became firmly established in Australia in the early 1900's soon after visits by the ballerinas Adeline Genee of Denmark and Anna Pavlova of Russia. Pavlova was the one in particular that inspired Misha Burlakov and Louise Lightfoot to found the first Australian Ballet Company. Many dancers who visited Australia while touring stayed on to form companies of their own. The best known include: Helene Kirsova, Edouard Borovansky, and the Austrian-born Gertrud Bodenwieser. The Australian Ballet opened in November 1962 for its first season. Among the most famous people linked with the company are Sir Robert Helpmann,…...
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By being able to do so -- by actually doing so -- he also changed the role of ballet in society and the role of classical male dancers in society. This change was certainly not an enormous one, but in the context of gender relations and the role of high art in society during his lifetime, it was startling (amsay, 1995).
Audiences in Nijinsky's era rejected the legitimacy of masculinity in ballet; that is, they reject the possibility that true masculinity could ever be evident in the bodies of male dancers. Travesty performances, in which gender was treated with as much scorn and derision as race was in black-face performances (which come somewhat later than the travesty performances, but only just) were a society-wide affirmation that only certain gender expressions were acceptable and that the ones performed on the stage of classical dance would be considered acceptable to the audience…...
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Ramsay, B. (1995). The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities. London: Routledge.
Garafola, L. (1989). Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. New York: Oxford University Press.
Garafola, L. (1999). "Reconfiguring the Sexes." The Ballets Russes and Its World. Lynn Garafola & Nancy Van Norman Baer. (Eds.) New Haven: Yale University Press.
Garafola, Lynn. "The Sexual Iconography of the Ballets Russes." Ballet Review 28.3(Fall 2000): 70-77.
Ballet Russe and Nijinsky influence the gendering of ballet? Consider both repertories and choreography.
Today, when the average individual thinks of dance, they quite often think of ballet. But if ballet itself is a cultural stereotype of what 'dance is,' the specific art form of ballet itself has a legion of cultural stereotypes attached to it. Legendary choreographic interpreters past and present have attempted to break such ballet cliches and stereotypes, with different degrees of success. But perhaps the greatest tradition breakers of ballet as an artistic form have come from the dances and dancers of the Ballet Ruse, such as Nijinsky.
Some of the stereotypes the Ballet Russe under the leadership of Nijinsky attempted to break were that ballet as a female art, conducted in a series of tightly constrained feminine steps, performed by dancers in highly recognizable dance costumes such as tutus, to conventional (then popular) strains of music.…...
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Ballet
George Balanchine and Serge Diaghilev were similar and yet different in various ways. For instance, both were prominent figures in the 20th century: they worked together in the Ballets Russes for five years in the latter half of the 1920s; Balanchine was the choreographer and ballet master, Diaghilev the promoter. Diaghilev had staged works, too, and is regarded as a pioneer in the field -- uniting new music and modernist styles and tactics with the traditional ballet forms to bring a new spectacle to the stage -- works like The Rite of Spring, for instance, which was so controversial that it caused a fight to break out in the theater on the evening of its first performance (Kelly 293). Balanchine, on the other hand, was devoted more towards the art of dance: he opened schools and worked in New York and in Hollywood. He lived for dance, it could be…...
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Fisher, Barbara. In Balanchine's Company. CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006.
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In the flower-drum dance, they performers used drums as they danced.
Most Chinese dances derived from "folks" or people who danced during celebrations in communities until the Han dynasty (WorkArtsWest 2005). In the Han era, a musical entertainment court would be established for the imperial court, documented and enhanced folk songs and dances. The political stability and economic prosperity that followed during the Tang dynasty allowed the growth and flourishing of poetry, music and dance between 618 and 907 AD. Dances in the Tang dynasty received past techniques from the Zhou, Qin, Han, Wei, Jin and Nanbei dynasties. Earlier in the rule of this dynasty, uddhism was introduced in China and trade broadened. As a consequence, social relationships expanded rapidly and dances were influenced by folk dances from other countries, like India, Rome, Persia, Korea, Cambodia, urma, Vietnam and other central Asian countries. It also merged with other fine art…...
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Serge Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
Perhaps one of the greatest influences on Russian ballet was Serge Diaghilev, the impresario of the Ballets Russes from 1909 until his death in 1929. The Ballets Russes made an incredible impact on the world of ballet, spreading like wildfire from France to London, and later to America, and encompassing such legends as Nijinsky, Massine and Balanchine, as well as many other leading European composers and artists of the period. Thanks to Diaghiliv and his regisseur Serge Grigoriev, we now have the beauty of such ballets as Les Sylphides, The Firebird and Petrushka.
Serge Diaghilev was born of Russian nobility in Perm, Russia, on March 19, 1872. In 1890 his family moved to Saint Petersburg, and at the university there, Diaghilev was supposed to study law, but he soon became enamored with the arts and realized that was where his future lie. Shortly after entering the…...
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The desire to possess a perfect body causes the loss of control on eating habits and the development of a preoccupation with appearances is the result. "Once youngsters become aware of how they look it can become quite a consuming interest." (Anorexia linked to child dancers)
The study to establish any connection between childhood dancing and adult eating habits was conducted on five hundred and forty six women in the age group seventeen to fifty five. Each of the participants was questioned on their possibility of dancing in childhood. They also answered questionnaires that were designed to measure disordered eating habits, body image and any signs of depression. Just over one third of the participants answered in the positive regarding dancing during childhood. The results displayed the fact that those that had danced in their childhood showed a greater tendency for bulimic behavior and were more worried about their weight…...
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Anshel, Mark H. (June 1, 2004) "Sources of disordered eating patterns between ballet dancers and non-dancers" Retrieved at on February 21, 2005http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-474742_ITM&referid=2090Accessed
Athletes: AAP outlines medical concerns for female athletes" Retrieved at Accessed on February 21, 2005http://www.caringonline.com/eatdis/topics/athletics.htm.
Dance is a way to express feelings and thoughts through movement. A recent matinee showing at the Ballet Hispanico demonstrated how culture and dance can merge to form a vehicle to communicate an instance, a feeling, and an experience. Founded by Tina Ramirez, a Venezuelan American choreographer and Dancer, Ballet Hispanico is a Manhattan based American dance company that presents dances reflective of Latino and Hispanic-American experiences since 1970. The company works with forty-five choreographers worldwide and has a repertoire of more than seventy-five works. Commissioning almost 80 works and having acquired eleven more, there is a distinct variety in the performances offered at the Ballet Hispanico.
The matinee showing that began April 5th, 2016, and ended April 10th, 2016 featured a performance called "CLUB HAVANA" that was choreographed by Pedro Rulz. Music was by several artists that included Perez Prado, Ruben Gonzalez, and Francisco Repilado. Showing all five days at…...
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"Summer Intensive -- Ballet Hispanico." Ballethispanico.org. N.p., 2016. Web. 12 Apr. 2016.
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Nutcracker allet by Tchaikovsky is in the fairy tale genre in the classical ballet type. The overall theme of Act One, Scene One of the ballet is to set the stage of the story: it is Christmas time and the Christmas tree is being decorated. The characters are happy and joyous and looking forward to their time together. The music is crisp and engaging. The characters move about and dance with a gentleness that makes everything seem small and familial and intimate and close. The basic dance steps that are seen are the en pointe, the pirouette, the port de bras, and the saute. Each is simple and conveys a feeling of honest exuberance and happiness, and this is all in keeping with and consistent with the theme and mood setting by this opening scene. The mime and pantomime movements are also there to be seen and help to indicate…...
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Goode, D. (2011). The Story of the Nutcracker Ballet. NY: Random House.
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omantic era began in the late eighteenth century as a reaction against the Age of Enlightenment and was a period of great change and emancipation. The movement started as an artistic and intellectual reaction against aristocratic social and political norms of the Enlightenment and against the scientific rationalization of nature. During the Enlightenment literature and art were primarily created for the elite, upper classes and educated, and the language incorporated in these works was highly poetic, completely different from that spoken by the masses. Artists of the omantic era accessed the ballads and folklore that was familiar to commoners, rather than from the literary works popular with the aristocracy. This shift in emphasis was most strongly manifested in the visual arts, music, and literature. This was the beginning of a period of artistic freedom, experimentation, and creativity. The movement stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art…...
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Mode Assessment: Case Study
Situation: allet Class
Where did you observe the class/children?
The children were practicing in a large dancing hall of a private ballet school when I had the chance to observe them. The walls were adorned with large mirrors while the students were practicing; this was the case for both, the regular sessions as well as for special events
What ages were the children you observed?
The ages of the group ranged from 4 to 10 years.
Were there adults present in the observations? (If so what was their role?)
The adults were present in the class room. The class, taken on a weekly basis, provides development for children in a social and creative environment. The presence of adults with children guides the young guns to develop coordination and motor skills and also create a relationship between the two by making them spend time together through dancing. The day began with an assembly session…...
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Fisher J. 2013 The Role of the Adult: Optimizing practitioners' time with children. Starting from the child: Teaching and Learning from 4-8. Fourth Edition. Buckingham: Open University Press, 72-93.
Balanchine to Petipa
George Balanchine was born in the year 1904. He was invited to come over the United States of America by Lincoln Kirstein, in the year 1933, and subsequently, Balanchine arrived in America in the month of October 1933. One of the very first things that Balanchine is reputed to have done after his arrival in the United States, was to found the 'School of American Ballet', which opened in the year 1934, with a class of twenty five students. It must be stated here that although Balanchine and Kirstein made several attempts through many years to start a Company, they did not succeed in their endeavor, but the School of American Ballet, however, has endured and remains intact, to this day. This was the Scholl through which Balanchine was able to present his very first ballet to the entire world, in America, which was named the 'Serenade'.…...
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Denis and Michael enthall used the space for productions and actor training. From 1963 -- 76 it was the temporary home of the National Theatre of Great ritain (see Royal National Theatre). riefly closed due to funding cuts, it reopened in 1983. Again threatened by lack of funds, it was purchased and preserved by a charitable trust in 1998. In 2003 Sir Elton John became the theater's president, a restoration drive was organized, and the formation a new Old Vic company was announced. Directed by the American actor Kevin Spacey, the group is intended showcase new theatrical talent (Old Vic, 2003).
Conclusion
During the 1920s and '30s Lilian aylis put on all of Shakespeare's plays, opera, and ballet. She and her troop did it all on a shoe string: ginger beer crates made up the scenery, and the casts were so poorly paid that Lilian often made dinner for them in…...
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Because her career did not end when she could no longer perform, she is a model for lifelong achievement and growth as well. She chose her career, not because she wanted to be famous, but because she loved dancing for its own sake. This is a message for any young person about to embark on a career. Don't choose a job on the basis of what it pays.
Like Suzanne Farrell, choose what you love to do most, rather than a job that promises money and/or fame.
Often what we love doing the most appears in some form in childhood. Farrell, for example, loved to play dress-up with her sisters and put on shows when she was child -- an activity that led eventually to the ballet and stage.
She started taking ballet lessons when she was a child, but because she had never been exposed to ballet, she had no idea…...
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