American Ballet Theatre

For this assignment i have chosen two dance production, coppelia and Poetry in Dance. Coppelia is based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffman. It is a three-act ballet that tells the light-hearted story of the mysterious Dr Coppélius who owns a beautiful life-sized mechanical doll. The show had original choreography by Arthur St. Léon, Coppélia is staged with additional choreography by Janek Schergen. The second performance that i had watched was a Chinese dance from Poi Ching School, Hwa Chong…

ballerina who likes to escape into fantasy lands such as the land of the Nutcracker, Swan Lake, or Cinderella. However, the only way I can do this is through my dancing. This is a good thing because years ago I had devoted my mind, body, and soul to ballet. It has become my life. In many ways it has become my career, my future. Often now I wonder if this dancing is what led to my parents’ divorce. That split hurt a lot. Not only had my mom and my dad, who had been married for fifteen years, had…

Ballet Did you know that in 1672 all parts in ballet were performed by male dancers in wigs and masks to make them look like female so they could play both roles? Very few women were allowed to perform because the males thought they weren’t good enough now, most men have lost interest in ballet and it’s mostly girls performing. Point shoes are the main part of the ballerinas outfit. Female ballerinas wear knee length tutus to show of points and curves. They also wear leotards, and usually…

“As a kid, I always wanted to be a ballet dancer. I figured out pretty quickly that there's only one acceptable body type for male ballet dancers and I don't have it.” And well, that is true Enjolras thinks. Male ballet dancers are expected to be tall, strong and impossibly thin. He himself had only barely made the cut, and Enjolras had at least 2 inches on Grantaire. Not to mention Grantaire didn’t quite fit the lean and thin expectation for male dancers. Looking over at the man in question…

is a sculpture created in 1881 by Edgar Degas. The model of the sculpture is Marie Van Goerhem, a daughter of a Belgian Laundress and tailor. Degas uses Marie Van Goerhem to depict an activity that the fourteen-year-old girl participates which is ballet. The sculpture appears to be bronze and tinted with cotton skirt and a white ribbon in the back of her hair. The little girl’s head is tilted upward with her shoulders pulled back. Degas is a French artist who showcases French dancers as…

Since the beginning of modernism in the 18th we start seeing art in different ways. It rejected the ideals of traditionalism allowing artist to expand outside their horizons to different mediums and techniques. From there forward we see all types of styles such as impressionism, minimalism, abstract, photorealism, pop art and more. Just like photography, dance is becoming more and more popular in the art industry. The acknowledgment that it has received recently its immense that dance is now a…

Did you know that Claire Danes was a psychology student before she made her acting career? The American actress started her acting career as Angela Chase in “My So-Called Life.” And after that, her career soared with the addition of many more projects. But one thing not a lot of people know is that she attended Yale University between 1998 until 2000. She only enrolled for two years. She took psychology as her major. However, she did not finish her higher education. Halfway through, KR CR Tv…

time was probably shocked of what was happening on that stage. After around 70 years, after the American stage revived Nijinsky’s ballet, his became acceptable and very well recognized as a master piece. The reason why at the first preformunce of Le Sacre du Printemps the audience raged was because they were not prepared for watching that. Perhaps to them Nijinsky was destroying the orchestra and ballet dancing as they knew it. After watching both performances, I noticed a huge difference…

therefore, people were still rebelling against the government. With the continuation of war movements, new rock music such as soft rock, hard rock, punk rock, and reggae was created and the dance styles evolved. Charles Gillis, the author of the article ‘American Cultural History 1970-1979,’ mentions that many different cultures were sharing their dances and music with America at the protests. They used music to show the government that they would like to stop the war, but to make more of an…

The Invisible Pink Slippers Before the worst night of my life happened, I lived a normal life of a 10-year-old ballerina. I could dance ballet every day after school. I would twist and turn, leap and soar above all my problems from the day. Ballet was my haven, away from my peers, pushy teachers, and school work. In my beautiful pink slippers, I could do and be anything. When I put on those slippers, I felt as if spring had taken over the winter inside of me. My skin glowed, my cheeks reddened,…