Tips for Teachers and Dancers
L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune was Nijinsky’s first ballet, and it was a ballet that was presented before it’s time. This is what the editor of one of the leading newspapers in Paris wrote the day after the ballet premiered: ‘I am certain that any of our readers who were present yesterday at the Chatelet will join…
The Gizelle Ballet Story is one of the oldest ballets that is still performed today, and still very popular. This ballet has always been one of my favorites. As a little girl, I fell in love with the long romantic costumes, and to me they were better than traditional tutu’s. Gizelle Ballet Story History The…
The Le Spectre De La Rose Ballet is a short ballet about a young girl who dreams of dancing with the spirit of a souvenir rose from her first ball. Jean-Louise Vaudoyer based the ballet story on a verse by Theophile Gautier. The ballet was originally choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by Carl Marie…
La Sylphide ballet story was ballet’s statement ballet in the Age of Romanticism. Marie Taglioni was and always will be the incarnation of its ideal. Her light and graceful dancing and her use of pointe for expressive purposes were fully exploited in the ballet that her father created for her in 1832. La Sylphide became…
All About The Ballet Vespri Above is an extract from Vespri the Opera which was very popular at a time. A lot of people haven’t heard about the Ballet Vespri, and it was also quite difficult to research it, as there isn’t that much about the ballet online. I happened to see the ballet or a…
The La Fille Mal Gardee Ballet is one of my favourites. It is light-hearted and funny, and a ballet that I could watch again and again. The literal translation for La Fille Mal Gardee means ‘The Wayward Daughter.’ Some of the first productions of this ballet were known simply as “Fille.” La Fille Mal Gardée is…
The Coppelia Ballet story has changed over the years, and was first performed in the Paris Opera on the 25th of May 1870. The choreography was done by Arthur St Leon and Marius Petipa. The first Swanhilda was Guiseppina Bozzacchi who was only sixteen at the time. She did only eighteen performances before the Paris Opera…
Swan Lake was the first ballet that I ever saw live as a child, so it makes sense that I would include a Swan Lake Synopsis on this blog. Swan Lake has always been one of my favorite ballets, and I especially love the scene’s with all the white swans. As a child, I dreamed…
If you are looking for the Ballet Petrushka Synopsis, you can scroll down a little, but first a little history. Petrushka is considered a Burlesque ballet and it is done in one act. It was first performed by Ballets Russes at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris on the 13th of June 1911. The choreography…
I first found out about the First Position Movie by reading the book Hope in a Ballet Shoe, which is the story of one of the dancers in the movie – Michaela DePrince. After a lot of searching, I finally managed to get myself a copy of this movie, and it is something that I…