Ballet

Why IS ballet important? Dancers ask this very question quite often. For most of them it seems like a very strict and boring dance form in comparison to the more popular genres of today. Others consider it beautiful but inaccessible. Whatever the case, perhaps it is time you took a second look and considered why ballet is a great dance form:

1) Ballet is the basic foundation for most forms of dance. Whatever you learn in ballet, it translates to values that can be used to pursue other forms of dance. The alignment and musicality it requires are only some examples of important qualities in most dance styles.

2) The development of discipline and dedication. Ballet technique is very specific and requires practice to improve. In most cases, the qualities of discipline and dedication translate themselves to other areas of life like work and school.

3) Improving posture. Let's face it: everything in ballet requires good posture. In time, the posture utilized in the studio translates to every part of a dancer's life.

4) Improving balance and flexibility. Two large parts of ballet technique which, consequently, diminish the likelihood of injury in ballet, sports, and other dance forms.

5) Increased agility. While often slow and graceful, ballet has its swift moments as well. Football players often attribute speed and agility to their experiences cross-training with ballet during the off season.

6) Aural, visual, and kinetic stimulus. In laymen' terms: You learn to connect verbal commands and musical cues with exercise demonstrations and perform them in your body. Different parts of the brain are problem solving to perform the movements in time to the music.

7) Confidence. Have you ever seen a five-year-old coming out of ballet class? He/she is most likely smiling and will gladly show you what has been learned. The confidence that ballet instills is not exclusive to the five-year-old demographic. The artistry, musicality, and grace of ballet are great confidence boosters.

That is not necessarily true, 'hard tipped shoes' which are called pointe shoes are worn in training to prepare for dances on stage. This is called 'pointe work'. Some dances performed are occasionally not suited for pointe shoes, so soft shoes will be worn for performances, they are quite regularly.

Younger dancers will wear leather, satin or canvas shoes ('Soft Shoes') while training as well as on stage because their feet are not strong enough to hold their weight on their own feet.

they are jugded on several different areas. Expression, musicallity, costume, leg and foot line, arms and hands, head movements, and use of stage. there are usually several judges who each give a number score to each of these areas. then they are averaged out and it is usually out of 100. the average dancer gets about 70-99 out of 100 because no one is perfect!

A beginers class before the dancers progress to wearing pointes.

there are soooo many, but some of my faves include kate jablonski, Emily shock, sonya tayeh, mia michaels, teddy tedholm..and a lot of other famous and less known ones, but id say these people are the best :)

You can do Ballet as a solo dancer, with a partner, as a trio, a small group, a large group. So pretty much the amount of people in ballet depends on how many people are available and how many people you want to dance with.

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This depends on what type of costume you are talking about. Most small studios order pre made costumes that normally cost around $80. On the other hand, professional, custom fitted tutus may cost up to $2500. This high cost depends on how many layers of tulle the tutu has and how much detailing the top of the tutu has. These tutus are often bought by ballet students in pre-professional ballet academies and youth ballet dancers that compete in competitions like PRIX and such that get you noticed by the ballet companies. Once ballet dancers get excepted into a company, all the costumes are re-worn and fitted to each dancer. The dancers pay no money for the costumes because they are owned by the company and they only wear them for performances.

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Born in California in 1959, she began ballet lessons when she was 7; her mom thought it would help her to overcome her shyness. I enclose a link to an excellent biography of Evelyn Cisneros's life.

Though the 1944 San Francisco performance was the first time the ballet was presented in full in the U.S., the music wasn't new to Americans. The ballet debuted in 1892

Well, the main positions are: first, second, third, fourth, and fifth position. A few other basic steps are pas de bourree, pique, plie, and releve. There are many, many more complex steps but if you'd like a bit of a longer list, then here is a very good webiste:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_ballet#P

not really their supposed to but if they hurt really bad try using lambs wool its very soft. and make sure you havefootpads too. do not for any reason use cotton that makes it hurt worse.

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The difference can be the way you dance. Usually ballet is about the technique more than anything else. Jazz is about the flow of movement to movement and how it all looks together. There are also diffrent because of there shoes. In ballet there are ballet shoes and ballet point shoes. In jazz there are jazz shoes. Ballet and Jazz both are great fun. I am in both. They both have the same diciplene which for any dancing of dance team has a lot of diciplene. Hope this helps you!

If we examine the entire application process, the most difficult college to get accepted to is actually West Point, the United States Military Academy. It has approximately 50,000 applicants that want to go through the process, and in the end only accepts approximately 1200 new students.

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it is used on the shoes to prevent slipping, especially when on pointe

All dancers don't weigh the same, but they are usually very light (male dancers usually have to pick up the ballerinas, so the ballerinas are always very lightweight). The desired weight of a ballerina is 95-105 lbs. (:

David Bintley was originally attracted to the sleeve cover of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra (PCO). After listening to the album Bintley decided to make a ballet to the music. David Bintley (choreographer) happened to be reading a book about vanished species at the time of choreographing [the doomsday book of animals by David Day] which also helped to create his inspiration. An extract from this book about the Great Auk Penguin opens the ballet narrated by Jeremy Ions. Bintley picked 8 tracks from this album, keeping the order in which they appeared on the album.

Still Life at the Penguin Cafe is split into 7 separate sections Each sections is based around the common theme of endangered animals

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You can totally wear socks over your pointe shoes on carpet if you want to warm up your feet. Just remember that it's never a good idea to wear socks on top of your pointe shoes to go on pointe, as it's really slippery (learned from bad experiences) and don't go on pointe on carpet (twisted an ankle a couple times doing that) unless you mean dance carpet, as in, the flooring in your dance studio.

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