Essays on Ballet

“Don Quixote,” is a popular dance that excites people and brings happiness to sad souls. I find it quite interesting because it coordinates dances from a diversity of places and backgrounds. The dance takes place in a series of days and most of the time the audience comes out of the auditorium with jubilation and excitement. The dance is always successful because of the intense preparations by the gifted and well-experienced managers, choreographers, artistic directors, and artists. When all these people work in harmony, the audience feels the magnitude and the quality of the work produced.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov was born on 27th January, 1948 in Riga, Latvia. He is famous for dancing throughout the world. His dance is the sublime vision. Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov began his ballet studies in 1960. He studied in Vaganova School the then Leningrad with Aleksander Pushkin. He won the top prize in the junior division of the international Varna Competition. His teacher described him as “the most perfect dancer I have ever seen”.
He made his debut at Maryinsky theatre where he danced the ‘peasant’ pas de deux in Giselle, in the group Kirov Ballet. A new instrument unique for ...

Background

“Black Swan” is about Nina Sayers, an aspiring ballerina, who had to deal with the pressure of her career, discordant relationship with her mother, and sexual advances from her mentor. Nina wants nothing more than to play lead in the New York City ballet company’s upcoming “Swan Lake” production. Her chance came when Thomas Leroy, the director, dismissed Beth, the lead, and subsequently chose Nina to take her place. Throughout the film, Nina’s psychoses surface on account of her experiences with his sexually aggressive mentor, Thomas, who also puts the most pressure on Nina to perform better, ...

The production I watched on YouTube was a modern interpretation of the classic Swan Lake ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky written circa 1875–1876. I searched in the site for more information regarding where this particular production took place, the name of the city or theater but I could not find it. There was no mention of the name of the ballet company or the names of the principal dancers. As would be expected, this dearth of information extended to the orchestra and its conductor. No credit was given to lighting, sound or set design as well. In this ...

The Little Fourteen–Year–Old Dancer is an adored impressionist piece sculptured by Edgar Degas. Degas presented the piece at the sixth impressionist exhibition in the spring of 1881, and public exhibition he ever did. Originally named by the artist, Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, the piece has become one of the most acclaimed artworks of well-known bronze casts produced after the artist’s death. She did not attract much admiration in her first appearance. Many know Degas as an artist of dance, and some critics originally dismissed his sculptures, claiming that lacked the quality of good art. Most ...

Stravinsky was no stranger to pushing boundaries when he premiered the Rite of Spring in 1913. He had had immense success the previous year with his reimagining of the Russian folk tale of Petrushka. In that piece, as well, Stravinsky took liberties with his writing and the plot of the story. However, the liberties taken in the music for The Rite of Spring were far greater and more surprising than past compositions by him, or any other mainstream composer of the time. Coupled with the unusual choreography by Nijinsky, the event was understandably shocking to an audience unaccustomed to ...

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky was one of the most representative and brilliant composers from the twenty century and had a big influence on the development of the modern music. He wasn’t known only for his skill as a composer, he was also recognized as a pianist, conductor and a great and valuable musician. Throughout his composing career, Stravinsky have experimented many styles in composition using different rhythms and harmonies but musicologists clearly defined three stylistic periods in his musical evolution. The first period was between 1908- 1923 and it was called “Russian period,” the second period was between 1923- 1953 ...

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Swan Lake 2012
Introduction
The famous Swan Lake has been widespread throughout most of the United States or at least the few states such as Los Angeles and Boston. Swan exemplifies and bests the nation with a debut that will portray a theatrical to represent a characteristic fairytale of a Swan Queen by the name of Odette, a Prince who was known as Siegfried, and witchcraft that of which deals with the unfaithfulness and adoration, that weds them for infinity. Particularly, this feature stage play landscapes an outstanding new costume and set design, that consist of strong herbal choreography ...

Introduction

Deidre Sklar published her commentary “Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance” to provide premises as to why dance, as a form of art, is imbued with cultural values. The five premises include the following: “movement knowledge is a kind of cultural knowledgeis conceptual and emotional as well as kinesthetic,” and “intertwined with other kinds of cultural knowledge,” getting the meaning of dance requires looking “beyond movement,” and “movement is always an immediate corporeal experience” (Sklar). It is important to note said premises in further understanding the cultural significance of any given kind of dance. This study, ...

This essay will explore the compositional method and the harmonic innovations that Stravinsky used in his ballet “The Rite of Spring.” In order to capture all the ideas the essay will have three parts; the first part will be linked to the observation for the piece as a whole, the second part will be an analysis of the strategically features with examples from the score and the third part will be a cogent summary of the analysis that will imply the interpretation of the piece.
“The Rite of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky was premiered in 29 May 1913 at ...

Ballet dance at its inception was developed as a performance dance in the fifteen century. With time, however, music and choreography was incorporated and the dance itself became popular as a concert dance. In the contemporary times, the Ballet dance has since developed to a level where companies with professional composers and orchestras are trained to perform this kind of dance. On the other hand, Jazz dance was developed many years subsequent to the invention of Ballet dance. Particularly, this dance was developed in the 1900s as a vernacular dance that was performed by the African Americans who were ...

Giselle is a ballet act that has been inspired by a passage about the Willis and from poem about a girl who dies after dancing in a ball. It is about Giselle, a peasant girl who falls in love with the prince that tricks her into believing that he is also a peasant like her. However, he is set to marry the princess but his heart is with Giselle. Giselle has a delicate heart and clarification about the prince’s set marriage to the princess hurts her too much that she dies. This happens during a dance when the ...

A) To test his hypothesis that ballet training will improve both the fielding and batting performance of his players, how should the coach decide which players will take ballet training and which will not? Why should he choose to assign the players in this fashion?

B) Identify/describe the different levels of the independent variable.

The independent variable in this experiment is ballet training. As described above, there are only two levels (training and no training). However, there could be more levels if the coach assigned some players to only two weeks of training, some players to four weeks of training, and some others to six weeks of training.
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Introduction

Ballet is arguably one of the most graceful and beautiful styles of dance. It is well known by many people across the world. The art of ballet started out as a kind of dance for the wealthiest families in history. This art was born at a time when Roman and Geek Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries started which revived interest in the arts and in human too. The term “ballet” comes from the Italian word “Balla” which simply means dance. Ballet is a deeply traditional form where fixed steps are in a canonical way linked to each ...

Introduction

Mikhail Baryshnikov. The man, whose name is known to every person, who is inspired by dance, the person who has extremely strong will, the person who is exceptionally talented, the person who is the greater dancer of XX century, the person whose performance has influenced on the development of the world ballet. Mikhails is known all over the world to the unique, powerful and perfect technique. He has performed over 100 classical ballet works. And that is just a part of the list of Mikhail’s achievements.
Mikhail has been dancing since his childhood and nowadays, when he is ...

Subjective

One of the most difficult to play and difficult to conduct piece among the classical repertoires is “The Right of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky. The music opens up in a very intense, earthy, and violent mood and that same mood transcends throughout the piece right until the end. The piece is very thought provoking as it insinuates a panorama of instrumental colors. On a positive note, the piece animates rhythmic drive and power that reflects irresistible excitement and unbelievable complexity, which is a characteristic of musical scores orchestrated by some of the most renowned name in the classical genre. ...

I love animals especially cats and horses. Owning a pet has been an enhancement of my self-esteem and companionship. Having cats around teaches me to be more responsible and respectful to other living beings. I also feel that owning a pet makes me more involved within the activities including sports, hobbies and chores. I have also read in books that having an animal during various therapy sessions for the ailing patients or other animal-assisted treatment presents significant improvements for the treatment procedures majorly for child suffering from such ailments (Verderber, Verderber & Sellnow, 2010). I adore horses as well and ...

Introduction

There are various ways of expressing oneself. One of the ways includes dancing, which is considered a nonverbal form of communication in our daily lives. Dancing involves movement of various body parts, in most cases towards music. It is used as a method of expressing ideas or narrating a story in both social and spiritual setups. Moreover, many people use dance as a way of educating others about their cultural practises. Many people across the world consider dance as a principal form of entertainment. Dance has overtime been classed depending on the country of origin or ethnicity. As such, ...

Biography of Mikhail Baryshnikov

Introduction
Mikhail Baryshnikov was born in 1948, in a place called Riga. In 1960, he started his ballet studies in the same place. He is a co founder of White Oak Project and a dance director. Mikhail Baryshnikov won a top prize in the junior division at a very tender age, an achievement that brought him into the lime light. He was named the ‘the most perfect dancer’ in Pushkin class, a characteristics that many others had not fitted in, in the history of that school. His unique talent and skills were noted right from then as his performance ...

Today, asking the average person to imagine a ballet dancer usually conjures up an image of a tall, statuesque woman with long, thin legs and a stern demeanor. However, what many people do not realize is that the image of a ballerina has changed drastically since the advent of the dance form. Originally conceived in the Renaissance, ballet as an art form was not initially the athletic pursuit of dancing on the toes that it is today. The art form that came to be known as ballet originated in the royal courts of the Italian Renaissance, and spread from ...

It is easy to see the beauty in classical ballet, and understanding the meaning of classical ballet pieces is merely a matter of understanding the language of classical ballet; upon becoming knowledgeable about the language of classical ballet, the wide repertoire of ballets opens up and becomes accessible to the individual. Modern ballets are often much less accessible, even to the initiated and to those who are deeply familiar with the conventions of ballet and dancing. William Forsythe was one of the premier choreographers of the last fifty years; his productions are complex and varied, often leaving the audience ...

Dance and Sports are two physical activities, which are closely intermingled and inter-related though both vary in their ultimate purposes. Both involve rigorous physical movements and body actions, which require perseverance, stamina and energy. Off late both Dance and Sports have started complementing each other with more and more athletes taking up dance to help them improve their important, vital and significant sporting traits. Dance lessons to improve Athleticism is nothing new but lately the practice has become extremely famous and even coaches have started recommending dance lessons to athletes cutting across the different sports.
There are many dance ...

Introduction

Our point of interest in this writing is to briefly explore the history of two types of dances, folk dance and ballet, and determine the relationship between the two, if there are any.

First, what is folk dance?

The definition available for folk dance is a non-specific one. As regards definition of a dance, one’s expectation will be a definition that relates to the dance’s origin or the kind of steps that are often taken in the dance’s performance. However, for folk dance, the definition is broad and it is possible that the dance type or style that any group of ...

Selection of target market

Eliza Minden should pick the dance students as her target market. This is because the number of dance students greatly outnumbers the professional dancers and thereby presents a vast market for Gaynor Minden shoes. Dance students usually took their lessons for about a year. During this period, they are mostly taught by the same teacher. Ballet teachers were either professional ballet dancers to advanced students (case study). This means that while Gaynor Minden targets dance students, they also gain access to the professional dancers market. In the course of teaching, the professional dancers get actively involved in the issues ...

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Overview of the Romantic Ballet
Historically, the nineteenth century ballet is perhaps the landmark in the history of dance. This is the product and culmination of the innovations and discoveries in the later part of eighteenth century which then brought together the different elements in ballet. This has been crystallized and formed of what is a classical ballet of today. The Romantic ballet period occurred mainly in Paris London. Romantic ballet has different characteristics and qualities.
The Romantic ballet, was to the dance world, a nineteenth century phenomenon. It brings a different and a whole new era of dance ...

“The Romantic ballet was a nineteenth century phenomenon to the dance world” (Baker 3). This style appeared after the French Revolution with the help of new middle class. People wanted to escape and experience all existence art forms. The combination of these wishes made themes of exotic lands, man versus nature and supernatural extremely popular in Romantic ballet. This style made female dancers the focal point of performances. Experts divided style into two groups: "The Classic Romantic Ballets" and “The Lesser Known Romantic Ballets”. One of the main plot of last category was women’s emancipation. Romantic ballet also ...

The modern genres of music cannot be considered to be pure, owing to their long histories of change with time and from one geographical place to another. The major aspects that keep changing with time are the styles, rhythm, dancing technique and wording, but it is normally possible to trace the origin of a single music genre (Dils, and Albright 54). Jazz and Ballet are two different music and dance genres that have some similar effects, yet they have different origins and histories. There are a lot of differences between these two terms. Apparently, it is not quite easy ...

Which of the two target markets should Eliza Minden pick, and why?

Minden has two markets to hose from, including the professional dancers and dance students, mostly from the age of 10 to advanced students through to adulthood. Minden should pick the professional dancers segment as it has advantages compared to dance students. Minden managed to produce patented shoes from a common sense approach, by promoting their comfort, durability, and injury prevention. This target market makes their choices for pointe shoes based health, safety, and durability. From the interviews, most ballerinas agree that comfort and fit are the most important factors that affect the choice of pointe shoes they make. From ...

1.0 Introduction
According to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), the Republic of Congo is referred to as an importation country as far as Polio is concerned. As a matter of fact, Congo is categorized by the same organization, GPEI, as being in the “wild polio virus importation belt.” This belt refers to a strip of countries which stretch from the Western part of Africa, through Central Africa all the way to the horn of Africa, which has been re-infected with the polio virus. Other countries in this importation belt include Liberia, Mali, Kenya, Uganda and Niger among other. ...

Overview of the Problem

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are two eating disorders with adverse effects on health and wellbeing. Persons with these disorders are preoccupied with their weight, in fact basing their self-esteem mainly on their body image (Suisman et al., 2012). They have an intense fear of weight gain because of a distorted belief that they are fat. For this reason, they refuse to eat and exercise excessively. Alternatively, they engage in binge eating but purge themselves after through self-induced vomiting and laxative abuse increasing the risk of malnutrition that, in severe cases, causes death (Bulik et al., 2005). There is ...

Many people are under the assumption that art exhibitions must contain paintings, sculptures, drawings, or other traditional forms of art. The artist must use paint, clay, or pencil to capture a feeling, a message, or an appeal, putting it on display for the audience. It is unclear why, but it seems that the audience cannot render a message fit for consumption unless it uses the typical artistic methods. The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology acknowledges there are other art forms. FIT displays all types of artistic fashion as an exhibition to man’s triumphs and failures through ...

World Music and Dance

There is a very long history in music in Spain and it is said to have played a very important role in western music development. Particularly, it has had a very strong effect on the Latin American music. It usually associated with such traditions such as classical guitar and the flamenco however the Spanish music is actually diverse from one region to another. The flamenco is a musical genre from Andalusia in the south of the country. Contrary to this, the music from the north western region mostly revolves around using bagpipes.
In the early fifteen and seventeenth centuries ...

Delta Hotel in Victoria, BS

Delta hotel Victoria is a resort and spa situated in the inner harbor of Victoria. The hotel was built in 1992, celebrating its twentieth anniversary in 2012. Being a newly renovated hotel, there are some features that seem attractive to individuals and citizens of Victoria. Its newly opened restaurants shopping malls and attractions are one of the key reasons that the residents love visiting the hotel. The services offered by the hotel are unsurpassed, and improve its attraction factor. Delta is a modern hotel that offers unsurpassed guest service, a modern waterfront setting, full resort amenities and exceptional wining ( ...

Martha Graham was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 11, 1894, but she moved to Santa Barbara, California in 1908, and it was there that she spent most of her early years. Her father was a physician who specialized in using physical movements to treat mental and neurological disorders, and it was he who would prove to be one of the greatest influences, both on Martha’s choice of career as a dancer and on how she used dance to portray images and emotions (A+E Network, 2012).
Perhaps the inciting moment of her professional life came when she ...

Computer based Horizontal prototype

The application developed in the following section, is meant for facebook users and takes care of the news feed manager and the users’ login page. It has a news feeds manager imbedded in facebook and a person the news feeds by a person are filtered according to the users’ needs. The user is first prompted to log into their facebook account and then their news feeds are filtered for them. Once the newsfeed has been filtered, they are arranged for them at the top of the page as shown in the preceding sections. ...

In recent years, Hispanic actors have risen in prominence more and more, to the point where Latino and Latina actors and performers have become a vital and important part of pop culture and the entertainment industry. Of particular note is Penelope Cruz, who in just over a decade has become one of the most well-known and critically acclaimed actresses in Hollywood. Her career in the entertainment industry has been eventful and long, and she holds herself up as a role model for other Spanish-speaking actors and actresses, due to her substantial success and acclaim in both small, independent films ...

What are the implications?

During adolescence it’s usual for young people to think a lot about how their bodies look. During the teen years their bodies and appearance go through lots of changes and youngsters often compare their bodies with others. Meanwhile a positive attitude to your body is an important part of a healthy self-esteem.
The standards of beauty are very wobble and change from decade to decade. If we look through the pages of history, we see that for insance in Western Europe in the Middle Ages the main attributes of beauty and femininity were considered to be small height, ...

Musical Theater and Musical shows have been around for centuries. In the beginning, a musical show was the “integration of narrative, song, and dance characteristics” that “glorified beautiful women and surrounded them with comedian, singers, and dancers” (Reynolds and McCormik). From the early 1900 to 1930’s, the theater supporter was charmed by Minstrel shows, Variety Shows, and Follies which led to musicals with dramatic action. As the theater progressed, dance numbers became more a part of the entire show. Over the next 30-40 years Broadway Musicals would hit their highs and lows, but it was all too evident ...

Medici played a significant role not only in politics, but also in the cultural life of Europe of their time. Like other wealthy and influential people, they ordered a work of art for the greater glory of themselves, their family, of the city and God. Under the influence of the new ideas of the Renaissance, Medici saw in the artists not only artisans. They were interested not only on a beautiful pieces and its content, but also on its creator. Not by chance, as an example of Renaissance patron relationship to the artist, Cosimo the Elder quoted words of ...

Films play a big role in the representation of society, in the cultural, political, and social scenes in society. Various genres of the film act to different effect in the society, with some providing educative insights, political activism in film, entertainment, all depending on the nature of the film. Film has found use previously as a tool through which directors and activists have utilized in the portrayal of historical events; the intention being to present the occurrences in as much a real way as to have an impact on their targeted audience. Historical events are often mucked by unpleasant ...