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A Dictionary of Ballet Terms (3rd revised ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80094-2. OCLC 4515340. Minden, Eliza Gaynor (2005). The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-6407-X. OCLC 58831597. Glossary of Dance Terms. New York: New York City Ballet ...
lit. "step for two"; in ballet, a dance or figure for two performers, a duet; also a close relationship between two people. [43] pas de trois lit. "step for three"; in ballet, a dance or figure for three performers. passe-partout a document or key that allows the holder to travel without hindrance from the authorities or enter any location ...
Divertissement (from the French 'diversion' or 'amusement') is used, in a similar sense to the Italian 'divertimento', for a light piece of music for a small group of players, however the French term has additional meanings.
The greatest influence on the development of the Cecchetti method was Carlo Blasis, a ballet master of the early 19th century.A student and exponent of the traditional French school of ballet, Blasis is credited as one of the most prominent ballet theoreticians and the first to publish a codified technique, the "Traité élémentaire, théorique, et pratique de l'art de la danse" ("Elementary ...
Les Élémens (The Elements), or Ballet des élémens, is an opéra-ballet by the French composers André Cardinal Destouches and Michel Richard Delalande (or de Lalande). It has a prologue and four entrées (as well as, originally, a celebratory epilogue later removed). The libretto was written by Pierre-Charles Roy.
In ballet, a répétiteur teaches the steps and interpretation of the roles to some or all of the company performing a dance. [1] [3] Several late 20th-century choreographers, such as George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Gerald Arpino and Twyla Tharp, have established trusts and appointed conservators—hand-picked dancers who have intimate knowledge of particular ballets—as répétiteurs of ...
Demi-soloist can have one of two meanings in the ballet. The first is for a solo role normally danced by a member of the corps de ballet.Such roles are often made in pairs, that is, two corps dancers, dance together, frequently in mirror image.
The ballet's title is further underlined by Ashton's use of two live pigeons to represent the lovers. Seen together during the first act, while the artist and his lover dance together, the young man's dissatisfaction and temporary desertion of the girl are underlined by one pigeon flying alone across the stage before the interval.