Ballet Essay

Tchaikovsky in 1896. Little Swans is considered to be the first of two excerpts from an adaptation of Petipa 's version of “Swan Lake.” This particular piece was in the genre of ballet and was performed by five females, and no males. The costumes these females wore consisted of them wearing a white tutu, white tights, and ballet slippers. Their hair was pulled back into a low bun. The background of the stage was a basic blue to make the dancers stand out and was done with no props. From the…

Budowski, Jade, Erin Shanley. “What Men Want: Male Body Image in the Dance World.” Vimeo. April. 2015. Web. Oct. 26. 2015 This brief video, documents the personal responses of current male dancers when asked about body image and fitting into the ballet world. In the video, the idea that the perspective of personal body image will…

Strange Fruit; a solo first performed in 1945, was created by a woman named Pearl Primus. She was in a dance company that encouraged her to address social issues through movement. The soloist performing Strange Fruit in a woman who is witnessing a lynching. Ms. Primus was reflecting on the struggle of black share croppers in the south. The message and purpose of this piece is clear. I am sure during its time it must have caused a stir in the audience. Even today I think it would cause discussion…

have given up and taken up another genre of dance but I wanted to see how far I could push myself for ballet. It did take several years to achieve the arch I so desired, but I finally succeeded and could continue to learn ballet. Giving up on ballet would be the same as not reading the ending of a book, I would not have known if I could have made it to the end and finished the eighth grade of ballet. The fact that I tried and conquered the obstacle that was my flat feet gave me a confidence…

saw American dance pioneer Isadora Duncan rebelling against the normality of traditional ballet technique in order to create her own revolutionary style of dance technique and performance. Jean Morrison Brown, a previous professor of dance at the University of New Hampshire stated about Duncan: “A feminist in the most contemporary sense of the word and a radical whose rebellion, particularly against ballet, was complete and far-reaching …” (Brown, 1998, pg. 7) She believed that dance shouldn’t…

Then, I had been swimming for five years but I returned to dance classes. At the age of 12, I had a presentation on TV in a program called ¨Pequeños Gigantes¨. Later, I was part of the competence team of ¨Ballet Nacional de Camara del Ecuador¨. After that, I went to gym and I got the third place in Bikiny Fitness Competition. Finally, I was champion in Salsa Amateur couples and…

DePrince that Michaela was unlikely to find another home, she decided to adopt both girls. However, Michaela’s new parents recognized her talent for ballet. They enrolled her in ballet classes and supported her passion for the art. While attending the Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre, Michaela worked hard to develop her skills so that she could keep on living her dream and do what she has always wanted to…

like I had a flow of positive energy coursing through me. Ballet, on the other hand, felt like the complete opposite. The style of ballet felt so rigid and controlled; I was thinking about dancing more than I was dancing. I middle ground between the two would be jazz in my opinion though. There’s a certain level of accuracy and sharpness to the moves without the same excessively sharpened edge. I guess I’m saying contemporary was free, ballet was suffocating, and jazz was very structured. I also…

She admired the Nutcracker and when her company was auditioning girls for parts in the ballet, Michaela was ecstatic and practiced daily in order to get the main part she wanted. Then she heard the worst comments between two mothers when leaving the restroom they stated, “ Why not Michaela DePrince for Marie?” and the other mother responded…

can take many forms, while Dance du Ventre, or belly dancing, has a more narrow variety of moves. However, both have a deep rooting in women’s history and represent the value of a woman and her body. Modern dance stems from the revolution against ballet and other strict genres which discriminated against women of larger body types and didn’t allow for much emotional expression. Dance du ventre was a ritual performed during child birth.…