Here is an old ballet, but also a very interesting ballet called Little Humped Back Horse. You can watch the entire production right here. This version above is more modernized than the original which is well over a hundred years old and was done at the Mariinsky. This old ballet is based on the fairytale … Read more
Let’s look at one of the most famous tragic stories of all time – The Romeo and Juliet Ballet Story. Here is a history lesson for you, as well as the synopsis of this famous ballet. Romeo And Juliet Ballet History When Diaghilev died in 1929, the many talented people that he had gathered around … Read more
The History Of The Sleeping Beauty Ballet Marius Petipa and Ivan Vsevolojsky wrote the story of The Sleeping Beauty Ballet originally, which was based on Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tale ‘The Sleeping Beauty In The Wood.’ Tchaikovsky wrote the music and then Marius Petipa designed the dances. The Sleeping Beauty Ballet was first presented at … Read more
La Bayadere Ballet is a huge spectacle of a production in four acts and seven scenes. The choreography was done by Marius Petipa and the music by Ludwig Minkus. The La Bayadere Ballet (meaning The Temple Dancer or The Temple Maiden) was first performed at the Bolshoy Theater, St Petersburg on the 4th of February 1877. Here is the … Read more
The Raymonda Ballet is a Russian ballet performed in three acts and four scenes. It was choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Alexander Glazunov. Raymonda was first presented by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Mariinsky Theater on the 19th of January 1898 in St Petersburg, Russia. The Raymonda Ballet was specially created for … Read more
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 scenes with all the white swans. As a child, I dreamed … Read more
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 … Read more
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 white sylph costumes, and to me, they were better than traditional tutu’s. Gizelle Ballet Story … Read more
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 … Read more