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Ballet is a formalized dance form with its origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of 15th and 16th centuries. Ballet spread from Italy to France with the help of Catherine de' Medici, where ballet developed even further under her aristocratic influence.
During the 18th century, ballet transitioned from a courtly dance of moving images as a spectacle to performance art in its own right. Ballet performances developed around a central narrative and contained an expressive movement that revealed the relationships between characters. This dramatic style of ballet became known as the ballet d'action ...
Ballet (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary. Ballet has been influential globally and has defined the ...
Classical ballet is any of the traditional, formal styles of ballet that exclusively employ classical ballet technique. It is known for its aesthetics and rigorous technique (such as pointe work, turnout of the legs, and high extensions), its flowing, precise movements, and its ethereal qualities. There are stylistic variations related to an ...
A timeline of the history of ballet: 14th century. Medieval dance. 15th century. 16th century. Renaissance dance. Ballet de cour. Intermedio - Italian court spectaculars with dance. Ballet Comique de la Reine - sometimes called the "first ballet".
Ninette de Valois. Dame Ninette de Valois OM CH DBE (born Edris Stannus; 6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish-born British [1] dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes, later establishing the Royal Ballet, one of the foremost ballet ...
Swan Lake (Russian: Лебеди́ное о́зеро, romanized:Lebedínoje ózero, IPA: [lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə] listen ⓘ), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular of all ballets. [ 1 ]
Saint Petersburg Eifman Ballet, founded in 1977. Mikhailovsky Theatre Ballet, founded in the 1930s. Perm Theatre Ballet, founded in 1896. Novosibirsk Theatre Ballet, founded in 1945. Russian State Ballet of Siberia, founded in 1978. A number of companies have been called, or included in their name, Moscow Ballet.