Ballet

Ballet warmups are articles of clothing that are used to keep the body and muscles warm until the dancer's body has started a sweat and the muscles are working. Some common ballet warmups are legwarmers, shrugs, and shorts. Basically, they help prevent the dancer's from pulling a muscle.

She stood Five feet tall.

In 1832, the famous ballerina Marie Taglioni was the first to dance a full length ballet (Les Sylphide) en pointe, although her shoes were much different than the pointe shoes used today. They were most like regular ballet shoes, with the ends "darned" or reinforced with extra thread. Most likely, dancers used these pointe shoes before her famous performance, but she is the first to dance a full length ballet in them, and is thus given the credit. Dancers at this time were beginning to jump and turn more than dancers previously, and this required a change in the shoe that they needed. When ballet first appeared, dancers wore a shoe with a heel on it. As ballet technique progressed and became more demanding, the shoe changed as well, to a flat shoe, pleated on the bottom, with ribbons to secure it around the ankle. In Taglioni's day, when dancers were trying to portray ethereal, ghost-like creatures, as in Les Sylphide, the ability to rise on one's toes made them appear to be floating or gliding across the stage. So the pointe shoe evolved because of the demands of ballet, and the needs of the ballerinas dancing those roles. Hope this helps!

Baile folklórico, literally "folk dance" in Spanish, is a collective term for traditional Latin American dances that emphasize local folk culture. Each region in Mexico, the Southwestern United States and Central American countries is known for a handful of locally characteristic dances. www.maderafolklorico.com/forum has ballet folklorico sources and information on Mexican costumes, folklorico shoes, folklorico costumes, folklorico dance dresses, and more.

a pointe shoe is a shoe used in ballet to give the illusion of effortlessness. althought it can be painful, pointe dancing is beautiful and graceful. a pointe shoe is made of plaster, glue, satin, and many other things. search "the making of pointe shoes" on youtube.com and there are some great videos.

Noel Streatfield

Most often they are spoken in French.

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romantic ballet started in the 1800's.

Ballet is unique because, unlike other dance styles, it combines classical grace and beauty. Jazz is not as classical, hip-hop is not graceful, etc.

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Adeline Pastor is a dancer who was known for her amazing pirouettes. She trained in France and later in Cuba.

Well never fear, you can weigh whatever you want to weigh if you weigh 10kg or 300kg the only thing that matters is how comfortable you feel. HA who am I kidding if you weigh over 30kg you suck!

Professoinal Ballerina's are people who study ballet for a long time and have danced many times. It involves practice and hard effort but its worth it. Her are a few names of professoinal ballerinas.

MARIA KOWSAKI

ABI STAFFORD

STEPHANIE ZUNGRE

CARLA FRACCI

Hope that helps!

1. The bolshoi ballet (Russia,Moscow)

2. The mariinski ballet (Russia,St. Petersburg)

3. The tchaikovsky perm ballet (Russia,Perm)

4. The royal ballet(England, London)

5. New york city ballet (America)

6. Het national ballet (Netherlands)

7.Cork city ballet(Ireland)

8.Ballet de Cuba(Cuba)

9.Ballet Irealand(Ireland)

10.Irish youth Russian ballet(Ireland)

are mine but there are no offical lists.

Ballet originated in sixteenth and seventeenth century French courts.

There are quite a lot of types of ballet:

There is Classical Ballet with the discipline, graceful and strong positions and the French words to describe the positions.

There is Lyrical Dance which is ususally an emotional dance which shows more emotion that Classical Ballet. To dance Lyrical, people usually use soul, R & B songs or Pop Songs that have lyrics (hence "Lyrical Dance") that tell a story of love or loss.

There is also Contempory Ballet, which combindes Modern and Ballet, with strong jumps, spins and sometimes acrobatics. It can also be graceful and show emotion like Lyrical.

Character Dance isn't strictly a part of ballet, as you wear a certain skirt and shoes, but many professional dancers have been commended for their excellent character performances in ballets. The doll Copelia was a character role, as is someone like Bottom in Midsummer Night's Dream. In character dance, it is also very important that you are a good actor, as character roles can include comedy and really thinking like the character you are playing.

Ballet is a formalized form of dance with its origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th and 16th centuries. It quickly spread to the French court of Catherine de' Medici where it was developed even further. In the 17th century at the time of Louis XIV, ballet was codified. The predominance of French in the vocabulary of ballet reflects this history. It also became a form closely associated with the opera. Ballet then spread from the heart of Europe to other nations. The Royal Danish Ballet and the Imperial Ballet of the Russian Empire were founded in the 1740s and began to flourish, especially after about 1850. In 1907 the Russian ballet in turn moved back to France, where the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev and its successors were particularly influential. Soon ballet spread around the world with the formation of new companies, including London's The Royal Ballet (1931), the San Francisco Ballet (1933), American Ballet Theatre (1937), The Australian Ballet (1940), the New York City Ballet (1948), the National Ballet of Canada (1951), and the Delhi Ballet (2002). In the 20th century styles of ballet continued to develop and strongly influence broader concert dance, for example, in the United States choreographer George Balanchine developed what is now known as neoclassical ballet, subsequent developments have included contemporary ballet and post-structural ballet, for example seen in the work of William Forsythe in Germany.

A guy named Louis Spandau who was French and moved to Russia. He got famous in the 14th century. His mom was an artist and his dad died of being ill. (Studied him in school)

No one is exactly sure, but the first performances of ballet-like technique occured in Italy during the Renaissance.

Because it is so beautiful to see men and women have such a strong form and they are so graceful. If you did ballet then you would know why it is so famous.

Charles Didelot