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- ability to bounce like a ball
- ballon
- first famous ballerina to rise briefly to the tips of her toes; first one to wear Heart Shaped Bodice & Romantic Tutu
- Maria Taglione
- made character ballet; took US tour in 1840's (congress adjouned to watch her dance; Earthy, voluptuous, pagan, passionate
- Fanny Essler
- female performance skirt
- tutu
- father of classical ballet
- Marius Petipa
- owns 60 ballets; defined what classical ballet is
- Imperial Ballet
- chorus of background dancers; used as moving backdrop behind soloists
- Corps De Ballet
- step of two; traditional male/female duet
- Pas De Duex
- first or best ballerina
- prima ballerina
- title of first or best male soloist in a professional ballet co.
- Primier Danseur
- danseur lifts, holds, shows off ballerina
- adagio
- take turns doing their most difficult steps
- allegro
- female solo
- petite allegro
- beating of legs in one elevation
- entrachat
- "whip turn;" "turn on one foot;" "on a dime"
- fouette pirouette
- by marius petipa (chor) and Peter Tchaikovsky (composer); 1892
- The Nutcracker
- by petipa (chor) and tchaikovsky (comp); 1895; dance became removed from plot; Technical & Dry
- Swan Lake
- by petipa (chor) and tchaikovsky (comp); 1890; Imperial Ballet
- The Sleeping Beauty
- bare stage; usa
- apollo
- partners with balanchine for 40 years
- igor stravinsky
- american school of ballet; the best pre-professional training school in the world
- New York City Ballet "NYCB"
- Artistic Director under balanchine
- Peter Martins
- composer of petipa's ballets
- tchaikovsky
- Full Evening Abstract Ballet; created by balanchine
- Jewels
- repertory company; hire outside chor. on commission
- American Ballet Theatre (ABT)
- Dancer in ABT; Danced in NYC Ballet for ballanchine; ended up as artistic Director
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- ballet teacher; created "Push Comes to Shove" and other ballets, danced in her own ballets
- Twyla Tharp
- Starred Baryshnikov & Tharp
- Push Comes to Shove
- also called manhattan project; done in baryshnikov's white oaks plantation in florida; theatre of new, up and comping dancers
- white oaks project
- Ballet Russes was name of company; Brought Russian art and ballet to paris; director of Total Theatre
- Serge Diaghilev
- Best Ballet - Ballon - he became the chauce
- Vaslav Nijinsky
- Became first & most prolific choreographer for Ballet Russes
- Michel Fokine
- Ballets best performer; Separated the arts; created romantic ballets
- Jean Georges Noverre
- Plays a puppet for a girl; heart of a woman
- Petrouchka
- Played a gold slave; about violence & sex w/king's wife
- Cleopatre
- about violence & sex with king's wife
- Scheherazade
- All female; birds, insects, delicate creatures
- Dying Swan
- Means "Afternoon of a Fawn;" 7 water nymphs in veils, scandalous pelvic thrusts
- L'Apres - "Midi d'un Faune"
- Means "The Rite of Spring;" about cycle of life; virgin is sacrificed
- La Sacre du Printemps
- Life's missions was to take ballet all over the world; created Dying Swan
- Anna Pavlova
- Dancer for 20 years; became ballet director for NYCB; changed way of looking at dancing; dance for dances sake
- George Balanchine
- Dance Company created by Serge Diaghilev
- Ballet Russes
- Dance for Dance's Sake; emphasis on choreography; balanchine created it; set, costumes, props
- Appolon Musagete
- oldest company in world
- Paris Opera Ballet
- USA; bare stage
- Apollo
- ballet dance where a witch put a spell on a scarf inevitibly killing the character; died of broken heart
- La Sylphide
- Created "La Sylphide"
- Filippo Taglione