…an artistic dance form performed to music, using precise and highly formalized set steps and gestures. Classical ballet, which originated in Renaissance Italy and established its present form during the 19th century, is characterized by light, graceful movements and the use of pointe shoes with reinforced toes…
…a light, round-toed shoe with very flat heels for women or girls, resembling the type worn by ballet dancers…
…a person employed by a ballet company to teach and rehearse dancers…
…a Moscow ballet company. Since 1825 it has been based at the Bolshoi Theatre, where it staged the first production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (1877)…
…a style of ballet developed at the Russian Imperial Ballet Academy, popularized in the West by Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes from 1909…
…the members of a ballet company who dance together as a group…
…a ballet company set up by Ninette de Valois, based first at the Old Vic and from 1931 established at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. The company later became the Sadler’s Wells Ballet which in turn became part of the newly formed Royal Ballet…
…a light, round-toed shoe with very flat heels for women or girls, resembling the type worn by ballet dancers…
…a light, round-toed shoe with very flat heels for women or girls, resembling the type worn by ballet dancers…
…a style of theatrical dance performed to jazz or popular music…
