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A ballet blanc (French: [balɛ blɑ̃], "white ballet") is a scene in which the ballerina and the female corps de ballet all wear white dresses or tutus. [1] Typical in the Romantic style of ballet from the nineteenth century, ballets blancs are usually populated by ghosts, dryads, naiads, enchanted maidens, fairies, and other supernatural ...
Ballet to music by Chopin, Schumann, Rimsky-Korsakow and Shostakovich: Nijinsky; Ballet to a collage of existing music arranged by Bob Zimmerman: Nijinsky – Dancer, Clown, God; Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master Ballet to music by William Boyce, arranged by Constant Lambert: The Prospect Before Us
Les Sylphides (French: [le silfid]) is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc to piano music by Frédéric Chopin, selected and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov.. The ballet, described as a "romantic reverie", [1] [2] is frequently cited as the first ballet to be simply about mood and dance. [1]
Scene from Les Sylphides. The following is a list of ballets with entries in English Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by ballet title, with the name of the composer (or the composer whose music the ballet is set to) and the year of the first performance.
The Three Graces: embodiment of the Romantic ballet, ca. 1840.This lithograph by A. E. Chalon depicts three of the greatest ballerinas in three of the era's defining roles: (left to right) Marie Taglioni as the Sylph in Filippo Taglioni's 1832 ballet La Sylphide; Fanny Elssler as Florinda in the dance La Cachucha from Jean Coralli's 1836 ballet Le Diable boiteux; and Carlotta Grisi as Béatrix ...
Gautier's "ethnic" idea was dropped as the ballet developed and it has not been picked up by modern producers. Today, act 2 is a ballet blanc (a "white" ballet in which all the ballerinas and the corps de ballet are dressed in full, white, bell-shaped skirts and the dances have a geometric design). [50]
Ballet of the Nuns is the first ballet blanc and the first romantic ballet. [1] It is an episode in Act 3 of Giacomo Meyerbeer 's grand opera , Robert le diable . It was first performed in November 1831 at the Paris Opéra .
This is a list of people who have been awarded the title prima ballerina, technically the second highest title that can be awarded to a ballerina: prima ballerina assoluta being the first. It is also used as a description of the place of a particular dancer within a company.