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Léonide Massine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer Ballet to music by Chopin, Schumann, Rimsky-Korsakow and Shostakovich: Nijinsky; George "Bay" Middleton, English horseman Ballet to music by Franz Liszt: Mayerling; Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, English nobleman John McCabe: Edward II
A Collection of Ball-dances Perform'd at Court; all compos'd by Mr. Isaac, and writ down in characters, by John Weaver, dancing-master (1706). John Weaver (baptised 21 July 1673 – 24 September 1760) is widely regarded as the father of English ballet and of English pantomime.
The etymology of the word "ballet" reflects its history. The word ballet comes from French and was borrowed into English around the 17th century. The French word in turn has its origins in Italian balletto, a diminutive of ballo (dance). Ballet ultimately traces back to Italian ballare, meaning "to dance". [2]
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He proclaimed in his text that ballet should unfold through dramatic movement, and the movement should express the relationship between the characters. Noverre named this type of ballet, ballet d’action or pantomime ballet (International Dictionary of Ballet 1032). From 1757 to 1760, he produced thirteen new works with composer François ...
Scene from Les Sylphides. The following is a list of ballets with entries in English Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by ballet title, with the name of the composer (or the composer whose music the ballet is set to) and the year of the first performance.
Folk traditions have been incorporated into what is known as ballet for centuries but it was not until Aleksandr Shirayev, Assistant to Marius Petipa, that character dance became a unique and codified art-form that takes its rightful place as an integral part of classical ballet. Character dances are usually performed in shoes or boots, with a ...
Sandra Noll Hammond (born 21 December 1935) is a dancer, teacher, dance historian, and educator. Internationally recognized for her studies of the development of ballet technique and training from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, [1] she is the author of two books on ballet technique and of numerous published articles, lectures, and papers presented at dance workshops and ...