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	Romantic ballet - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Romantic period in ballet occurred in the early to mid 1800s, and roughly corresponds to Romanticism movements in art and literature.
		Romantic ballets were usually set in two acts: the first representing daylight and civilization, the second taking place at night in the spiritual realm, and ending in tragedy.
		Romantic ballets owed much to the new developments in theater effects, particularly gas lighting (Limelight).
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Romantic_ballet (435 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For many people the Romantic ballet epitomises the make believe world of swana and sylphs and fairies and their opposites like the witches, goblins and demons who play a vital part in bringing them together or destroying them as ballets are made of.
		The most important change in ballet during this era was the exploitation of dancing on toes by the female dancer, to especially designed padded shoes or dancing on points as we call it today.
		London was awed by the aura of the romantic ballet and along with France, it reached a culminating point in the 1840s.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/11/27/fea09.html (1439 words)

	All about ballet pointe shoes but were afraid to ask
		Marie Taglioni (23 April 1804 — 24 April 1884) was a famous Italian ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the European history of dance.
		Ballet declined progressively after 1850 with the ballet d’action giving way entirely to divertissements; finally the great stars had retired, and the sets, costumes, and choreography had become stereotyped and uninteresting.
		In the first stages of construction, the ballet pointe shoes are fashioned inside-out, as most shoes were in the nineteenth century, before being "turned" for the finishing touches right-side out.
	www.ballet-feetfirst.com /ballet_pointe_shoes.html (1035 words)

	Giselle
		Ballet, although a latecomer to the style was mysterious and magical for its lack of the spoken word and proved to be an ideal vehicle for the Romantic pursuit of the unattainable.
		The ballet was conceived by the influential French poet, author, critic and possibly the greatest champion of the Romantic ballet, Théophile Gautier.
		What secures its place as the apex of romantic ballet is that in place of the usual happy ending, in which virtue is rewarded, a tragic death followed by a ghostly resurrection is substituted.
	www.balletmet.org /Notes/Giselle.html (4379 words)

	Ballet Shoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ballets were now performed on stage and although contemporary society was ill at ease with female performers gradually came the emergence of the star dancer, which was usually a danseuse.
		As ballet entered the nineteenth century it was in a state of transition, known as the pre-romantic phase.
		Her influence on the Russian ballet was profound and the Russian school of dance began teaching ballet classes in the Italian method of training.
	podiatry.curtin.edu.au /ballet.html (6430 words)

	The History of Ballet
		Ballet in Russia is often forceful and showy, and French ballet is generally pretty and decorative.
		Ballet historians consider one of Beaujoyeulx's entertainments, the Ballet Comique de la Reine, to be the first ballet.
		Ballet became firmly established in Australia in the early 1900's after visits by the ballerinas Adeline Genee of Denmark and Anna Pavlova of Russia.
	www.dance4it.com /ballethistory.htm (6384 words)

	Ballet History
		Ballet began in the European courts of the 16th and 17th centuries.
		When ballet began to be performed in theaters, at first as part of opera, professional dancers took the place of courtiers.
		The ballet called The Loves of Mars and Venus (the Roman gods of war and love) was performed in London in 1717.
	www.geocities.com /balletgrls/bhistory.html (1243 words)

	Dancing Online, History of Ballet
		The court ballet reached its peak during the reign (1643-1715) of Louis XIV, whose title the Sun King was derived from a role he danced in a ballet.
		Many of the ballets presented at his court were created by the Italian-French composer Jean Baptiste Lully and the French choreographer Pierre Beauchamp, who is said to have defined the five positions of the feet.
		The romantic ballet was not restricted, however, to the subject of otherworldly beings.
	www.ccs.neu.edu /home/yiannis/dance/history.html (2202 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Ballet
		Though it may encompass incredible technicality and difficulty, a ballet's audience is only aware of its ability to personify or evoke emotion – from rage to jealousy to love – simply though the movements and the lines of the dancers' bodies.
		Ballet originates as the court entertainment of Renaissance Italy, where the ruling aristocracy patronizes the arts and compete with each other by holding elaborate, costly parties featuring dance performances by their subjects.
		The star, his daughter Marie Taglioni, changes ballet fashion by dancing the role of the fairy-like being dressed in a lightweight, white, calf-length skirt and a top that bares her neck, arms and shoulders.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/ballet (1534 words)

	Ballet
		Ballet is best known for its virtuoso techniques such as pointe work, grand pas de deux and high leg extensions.
		A development of the Romantic ballet period pointe work was developed by Marie Taglioni who danced the full length of the La Sylphide en pointe in 1832.
		Ballet pas de deux (step / dance for two) is a duet in which ballet steps are performed together.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/b/ba/ballet.html (602 words)

	BALLET BOOKSTORE - History of ballet
		Although the techniques of classical ballet were invented by French and Italian masters two hundred years ago, the Russian Ballet refined these techiques, thus enhancing its already superb performances.
		She argues that a deeper understanding of both ballet and opera--and of nineteenth-century theater-going culture in general--may be gained by examining them within the same framework instead of following the usual practice of telling their histories separately.
		The wide variety of perspectives, from social history to feminism, from psychoanalysis to musicology, serves to illuminate the modernity of Romantic ballet in terms of vocabulary, representation of gender, and iconography.
	www.balletbookstore.com /history.htm (1215 words)

	Ballet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ballet is the name given to a dance form and technique.
		Ballet is best known for its virtuoso techniques such as pointe work grand de deux and high leg extensions.
		The first Ballet per se is considered to be Balthasar de Ballet Comique de la Royne (1581) and was a ballet comique (ballet 1851 also saw the publication of Fabritio Caroso 's Il Ballarino a technical manual on ballet dancing helped to establish Italy as a major centre of ballet
	www.freeglossary.com /Ballet (758 words)

	Ballet Performances Videos and DVDs 5
		The synergy of their partnership was electrifying, and their impact on the world of ballet remains unmatched.
		The romantic ballet, Giselle, first seen in 1841, was the finest of the ballets staged in Paris during the age of Romanticism.
		Supreme among the romantic ballets, Giselle is a beautiful and heartrending love story.
	www.iefit.com /ballet/ballet-performances-5.htm (946 words)

	Romantic ballet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is said that she was the very first to perform on the tips of her toes, but as an older litograph shows the ballerina Amalia Brugnoli showing dance en pointe this is hard to justify.
		In the second acts of Romantic ballets, representing the spiritual realm, the corps de ballet appeared onstage in Romantic tutus, giving the name to the term "white act" or "ballet-blanc".
		the style of the romatic ballet was changed due to the fact that marie taglioni had very long arms and to show that they werent as long and lanky as they were her father, chreographer fillipo tagilioni curved her arms more to make them look shoarter and more gracefull.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romantic_ballet (512 words)

	Metropolitan Classical Ballet Season Premiere
		The ballet premiered on June 1993, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
		Lavrovsky created the ballet for Alexander Vetrov when he [Vetrov] was the lead male principal dancer with the Bolshoi.
		The ballet is a revival of a work originally performed with live music by the Dixie Chicks in 1994 under the title All the Right Women, when Laura Lynch Tull was the lead singer of the group.
	www.mcballet.org /nextperformance.html (350 words)

	Giselle: a Romantic Ballet - Ballet Academic Studio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The variety of situations, some of them supernatural, and the flow of emotions, typical of the Romantics, are difficult to interpret convincingly, even for the greatest dancers.
		This sense of reality is essential for the most representative ballet of the Romantic period, Giselle.
		Certainly the best loved Romantic ballet, Giselle is popular for the music composed by Adolphe Adam (1803 - 1856), and the expressive and ethereal choreography of Jean Corelli (1779 - 1858) and Jules Joseph Perrot (1810 - 1892).
	www.danceit.org /Giselleing.html (385 words)

	Ballet-Dance Magazine - Matthew Bourne's Highland Fling: A Romantic Wee Ballet - Sadler's Wells, London
		The ballet is a reworking of an earlier version, enlarged for a bigger company, and it was based on the story of “La Sylphide,” using the same music, by Hermann Lovenskjold, as Bournonville’s version in 1836.
		He has changed the ballet’s original title, in order not to confuse audiences that might otherwise think they are going to see classical ballet.
		Her choreography clearly contrasts with that given to the rest of the mortals; she is airy, adopts Romantic poses from time to time and does not follow any choreographic fashion of the day.
	www.ballet-dance.com /200510/articles/HighlandFling20050902.html (995 words)

	Ballet News
		The notion of 'big' is built into the name of the Bolshoi Ballet, but when it comes to grand and glorious, the Kirov Ballet may well rank atop the world.
		Friday, 3 November 2006, 4:37 pm Press Release: Royal NZ Ballet Click for big version Moonlit and magical, the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s TOWER Season of Giselle is the quintessential Romantic ballet.
		Film and TV actress Donna Mills was born in Chicago on Dec. 11, 1943 and she was raised in Oak Park.
	www.topix.net /arts/ballet (708 words)

	Ballet Videos and DVDs Performances & Profiles 3
		The Fairy Doll, staged by Nicolai and Sergei Legat in 1903, is a pantomimic divertissement, charmingly danced by Larissa Lezhnina, Dmitry Gruzdev and Yaroslav Fadayev, and Arthur Saint-Leon’s Markitenka to a lively score by Cesare Pugni is a pas de six of exuberant dancing.
		Originally a two-act ballet, the Pacquita we know today is essentially the ballet’s glittering core, the Grand Pas, which was choreographed by Petipa in 1881.
		Frederick Ashton's delightful ballet has proved irresistible to audiences of all ages and The Royal Ballet's production has immediate appeal for newcomers to ballet as well as for those who return time and again to enjoy its lyrical comedy.
	www.centralhome.com /ballroomcountry/ballet_performances_3.htm (1785 words)

	- Parmenia Migel - The Romantic Ballet Prints - and more
		It mentioned her as being an authority on ballet and especially around the time of Romantic Ballet to Diaghelev.
		It is interesting that in some of the Romantic Ballet Prints the dancers are in barefeet - and almost none of them have their hair up in buns - or even up at all.
		The stance of the ballet teacher is well done; his feet widely planted, his chest thrust out with authority.
	www.ballet.co.uk /dcforum/happening/4475.html (1855 words)

	For Ballet Lovers Only - Specials
		The Bolshoi Ballet in the wings and backstage.
		When the Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet was guesting at the Opera House in Graz, Austria in July 2003, I was allowed to shoot the dancers from the wings and backstage.
		A group of eight French principals and soloists of the Paris Opera Ballet and San Francisco Ballet appeared for a short stint at Tivoli's Concert Hall in Copenhagen in September 2002.
	www.for-ballet-lovers-only.com /Specials.html (634 words)

	HERO - Higher Education & Research Opportunities in the UK: Romantic Ballet with a Jazz Twist
		This ballet double bill offers a unique combination of romantic elegant ballet 'La Sylphide' and the modern, jazzy and energetic ballet of 'Rhapsody in Blue'.
		The story of La Sylphide, which is set in the Scottish Highlands, is a romantic and mysterious full-length ballet which tells of a young man's infatuation with a mischievous sylph.
		James spurns his bride-to-be to pursue the love of the beautiful, other-worldly sylph of the title; but a witch causes the sylph to lose her wings and thus her life, leaving James utterly alone.
	www.hero.ac.uk /media_relations/12660.cfm (314 words)

	The Alabama Ballet \| What We Perform \| Giselle
		A romantic and grand ballet of dramatic proportion, Giselle is a beautiful production in the old-world style.
		In the grand tradition of French Romantic Theater, the ballet tells the story of Giselle, a peasant girl who falls in love with Prince Albrecht, who is disguised as a peasant.
		In the ballet's second act, Giselle's spirit must join the Wilis (pronounced WIL-lees), a group of spirits who were jilted in their lifetime and now avenge themselves by dancing unfaithful lovers to death.
	www.alabamaballet.org /giselle.html (146 words)

	The Alabama Ballet \| Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Giselle, ballet's grand romantic ghost story from 1841, is a tale of love, betrayal, madness and, above all, passion.
		Little did he know that by creating Giselle, he prompted the dramatic Romantic ballet genre that would be seen many times over in later ballets such as Swan Lake.
		Alabama Ballet wishes to thank Sterne Agee and Leach for their generous sponsorship of Giselle.
	www.alabamaballet.org /cgi/viewnews.cgi?newsid1144865211,31649, (506 words)

	Romantic Period Ballet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The choreography was created by her father, Filippo Taglioni, and it applied the use of toe dancing to emphasize his daughter's otherworldly lightness.
		The next ballet, Giselle, also contrasted the human and supernatural worlds with the white tutu popularized in La Sylphide.
		The romantic ballet was not restricted to the subject of otherworldly beings.
	www.shoshone.k12.id.us /Nutcracker/Nutcracker/history2.html (285 words)

	French Culture \| Performing Arts \| American Ballet Theater 2002 Season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		American Ballet Theatre's 2002 season features French and French-themed ballets including the company premiere of Sir Frederick Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardée and full-length classics Le Corsaire, Giselle, and Swan Lake, based on choreography by French master Marius Petipa.
		"The ballet is drenched in sunlight, subject to fleeting thunderstorms, and redolent of newly cut hay and just-risen cream.
		It offers the purest lyric dancing imaginable, offset and enriched by folk dance, borrowings from the music hall, dance en travesti, and a series of lovely, ingenious feats with lengths of ribbon that weave through the ballet as a metaphor for the ties that bind.
	www.frenchculture.org /perfo/events/02abt.html (762 words)

	Amazon.com: The romantic ballet in Paris: Books: Ivor Forbes Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Paris Opera is main center of The Romantic Ballet in France.
		The high priest of the Romantic Ballet in Paris was the poet Theophile Gautier who wrote the scenario for Giselle and other ballets.
		He explained the dual nature of the Romantic Ballet by comparing the two rival ballerinas Taglioni and Elssler as a Christian dancer and a pagan dancer.
	www.amazon.com /romantic-ballet-Paris-Forbes-Guest/dp/0903102455 (469 words)

	MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Giselle : romantic ballet in two acts
		This ballet, a masterpiece of the romantic era of dance, is the tragic story of a peasant girl driven to madness and finally death by a cold hearted man. After death, she becomes a ghost whose purpose is to punish her betrayer.
		Danced by Galina Mezentseva, Konstantin Zaklinsky, Gennady Selyutsky, Tatyana Terekhova and the Kirov Ballet are choreographed by Jean Coralli, and Jules Perrot.
		Performed by the Orchestra of the Leningrad Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
	www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=6717 (119 words)

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