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Ballet 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.

Facts
Medium
Performance dance built on a codified, highly technical vocabulary of steps and positions, traditionally staged with classical music, elaborate costumes and scenery. 1
Signature Technique
Classical ballet technique: a codified system of steps, positions and vocabulary taught through formal training. 1
Place of Origin
Italy; ballet originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 1
Notable Example
Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker are cited as examples of classical ballet productions. 1
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Source Wikipedia: Norodom Buppha Devi
Source Sergei Diaghilev - Wikipedia

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Source Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky) - Wikipedia
Agon (ballet), Works
Source Agon (ballet) (Wikipedia)
Source Appalachian Spring - Wikipedia
Source Checkmate (ballet), Wikipedia
Coppelia, Works
Source Coppelia (Wikipedia)
Source Don Quixote (ballet) - Wikipedia

1944 ballet, choreographed by Jerome Robbins with a score by Leonard Bernstein.

Giselle, Works

Romantic-era narrative ballet (1841).

La Bayadere, Works
Source La Bayadere - Wikipedia
Source Le Spectre de la Rose (Wikipedia)
Les Noces, Works
Source Les Noces (Wikipedia)
Parade (ballet), Works

One-act ballet by the Ballets Russes (1917).

Source Pillar of Fire (Wikipedia)
Rodeo (ballet), Works
Source Rodeo (ballet) - Wikipedia
Source Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia
Source Serenade (ballet) (Wikipedia)
Swan Lake, Works
Source Wikipedia
Additional Source Swan Lake (Wikipedia)Swan Lake, Wikipedia summary lead, in-form (rewire)

1947 plotless ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to music by Georges Bizet.

The Dying Swan, Works

1905 solo dance piece choreographed by Michel Fokine for Anna Pavlova.

The Firebird, Works
Source The Firebird - Wikipedia
The Green Table, Works
Source The Green Table (Wikipedia)
The Nutcracker, Works
Source The Nutcracker (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia
Additional Source The Rite of Spring (Wikipedia)The Rite of Spring, Wikipedia summary lead, in-form (ballet, dual nature)
Source The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) - Wikipedia
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Ballet (Wikipedia)
  • Ballet, Wikipedia summary lead
    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.
  • Ballet, Wikipedia summary lead, medium
    It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary.
  • Lead section
    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.
  • Ballet, Wikipedia, Vocabulary and technique section, signature-technique
    Classical ballet is based on traditional ballet technique and vocabulary.
  • Ballet, Wikipedia, notable-example
    Some examples of classical ballet productions are: Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.
  • In Category: Art Forms, Ballet, Wikipedia summary, in-category
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Coppelia (Wikipedia)
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Coppélia (sometimes subtitled: La Fille aux Yeux d'Émail (The Girl with the Enamel Eyes)) is a comic ballet from 1870 originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter.
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The Nutcracker (Wikipedia)
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The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪlˈkunʲtɕɪk] ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyi
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Appalachian Spring - Wikipedia
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Appalachian Spring is an American ballet created by the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Aaron Copland, later arranged as an orchestral work. Commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Copland composed the ballet musi
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Les Noces (Wikipedia)
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Les noces (The Wedding, or Svadebka (Russian: Свадебка)), is a Russian-language ballet-cantata by Igor Stravinsky scored unusually for four vocal soloists, chorus, percussion and four pianos. Dedicating the work to impresario Serg
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Agon (ballet) (Wikipedia)
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Agon is a 22-minute ballet for twelve dancers with music by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed by George Balanchine. Stravinsky began composition in December 1953 but was interrupted the next year; he resumed work in 1956 and c
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Serenade (ballet) (Wikipedia)
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Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine to Tchaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48. Serenade is credited as being George Balanchine's first full-length ballet in America. Using the students of his newly formed Schoo
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Le Spectre de la Rose (Wikipedia)
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Le Spectre de la rose (The Spirit of the Rose) is a short ballet about a young girl who dreams of dancing with the spirit of a souvenir rose from her first ball. The ballet was written by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer who based the story on
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The Green Table (Wikipedia)
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The Green Table is a ballet by the German choreographer Kurt Jooss. His most popular work, it depicts the futility of peace negotiations of the 1930s. It was the first work to be fully notated using kinetography Laban (Labanotatio
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Pillar of Fire (Wikipedia)
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Pillar of Fire is a 30-minute dramatic ballet choreographed in the 1940s by Antony Tudor to Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4. The music was inspired by a nineteenth century German poem, "Weib und die
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Checkmate (ballet), Wikipedia
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Checkmate is a one act ballet created by the choreographer Ninette de Valois and composer Arthur Bliss. The idea for the ballet was proposed by Bliss, and subsequently produced by de Valois for the Vic-Wells Ballet. It was first p
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The Firebird - Wikipedia
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The Firebird (French: L'Oiseau de feu; Russian: Жар-птица, romanized: Zhar-ptitsa) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Bal
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The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) - Wikipedia
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The Sleeping Beauty (Russian: Спящая красавица, romanized: Spyashchaya krasavitsa ) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889. It is the second of his three balle
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Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia
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Romeo and Juliet (Russian: Ромео и Джульетта, romanized: Romeo i Dzhulyetta), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. First composed in 1935, it was substantially revised for i
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Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky) - Wikipedia
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The Afternoon of a Faun (French: L'Après-midi d'un faune) is a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and was first performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 29 May 1912. Nijinsky danced the main pa
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Rodeo (ballet) - Wikipedia
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Rodeo is a ballet composed by Aaron Copland and choreographed by Agnes de Mille, which premiered in 1942. Subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch", the ballet consists of five sections: "Buckaroo Holiday", "Corral Nocturne", "Ranch
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Don Quixote (ballet) - Wikipedia
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Don Quixote is a ballet in three acts, based on episodes taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and first present
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Swan Lake (Wikipedia)
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is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875-76
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The Rite of Spring (Wikipedia)
Works In This Form: The Rite of Spring, The Rite of Spring, Wikipedia summary lead, in-form (ballet, dual nature)
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is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky
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Sergei Diaghilev - Wikipedia
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was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from
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Wikipedia: Norodom Buppha Devi
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was a Cambodian princess, dancer, director of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia, senator, and Minister of Culture and Fine Arts
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La Bayadere - Wikipedia
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is an 1877 ballet, originally staged
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