Ballet
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Publicado: 19 de septiembre de 2012
Mariana Macouzet Vázquez
Luis Enrique Ocaña
Ballet
ballet (băl´ā, bălā´) [Ital. ballare=to dance], classic, formalized solo or ensemble dancing of a highly controlled,dramatic nature performed to music.
The first ballet that combined movement, music, decor, and special effects was presented in France at the court of Catherine de' Medici in 1581,later ballet became a court pastime and a royal obsession. Louis XIV, who studied with ballet master Pierre Beauchamps for 20 years, founded the Royal Ballet Academy.
With theincreased influence of the Italian school of ballet, movement became elevated and less horizontal, and the five classic positions of the feet, which form the base for the dancer'sstance and movement, were established by Pierre Beauchamps.
The renaissance in romantic ballet began in Russia after 1875; the Russian Imperial School of Ballet had been founded in1738 and russian dancing has been maintained at the highest level of excellence till today. Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, which brought fame to Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya, and V.M. Gordeyev, and the Kirov Ballet, whose dancers have included Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, are the two foremost Russian companies and are rankedamong the finest in the world; In the other hand United States, Lincoln Kirstein and Edward Warburg founded the American Ballet company in 1934 and the other major American company,the American Ballet Theatre (formerly the Ballet Theatre), was founded in 1939. In 1930 Marie Rambert founded the Ballet Club, the first permanent ballet school and company inEngland and a year later Ninette de Valois established what became the Sadler's Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet).
Bibliography:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/ballet.aspx
Luis Enrique Ocaña
Ballet
ballet (băl´ā, bălā´) [Ital. ballare=to dance], classic, formalized solo or ensemble dancing of a highly controlled,dramatic nature performed to music.
The first ballet that combined movement, music, decor, and special effects was presented in France at the court of Catherine de' Medici in 1581,later ballet became a court pastime and a royal obsession. Louis XIV, who studied with ballet master Pierre Beauchamps for 20 years, founded the Royal Ballet Academy.
With theincreased influence of the Italian school of ballet, movement became elevated and less horizontal, and the five classic positions of the feet, which form the base for the dancer'sstance and movement, were established by Pierre Beauchamps.
The renaissance in romantic ballet began in Russia after 1875; the Russian Imperial School of Ballet had been founded in1738 and russian dancing has been maintained at the highest level of excellence till today. Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, which brought fame to Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya, and V.M. Gordeyev, and the Kirov Ballet, whose dancers have included Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, are the two foremost Russian companies and are rankedamong the finest in the world; In the other hand United States, Lincoln Kirstein and Edward Warburg founded the American Ballet company in 1934 and the other major American company,the American Ballet Theatre (formerly the Ballet Theatre), was founded in 1939. In 1930 Marie Rambert founded the Ballet Club, the first permanent ballet school and company inEngland and a year later Ninette de Valois established what became the Sadler's Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet).
Bibliography:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/ballet.aspx
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