The French word ballet comes from the Italian verb ballare, which means "to dance." Modern ballet is a mixture of classical, folk and national dances, gymnastics, pantomime and sometimes even acrobatics.
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Ballet appeared first in Italy, then in France. It is curious that history even knows the date of the first French ballet production. On October 15, 1581, the royal family and courtiers saw the production of Circe, or the Queen's Comedy Ballet. The idea of the performance belongs to one of the court violinists - the Italian Balthazarini de Belgiozo.
Step 2
At the dawn of ballet, it was based on dances adopted at the royal court. About a hundred years later, new genres were born: ballet-comedy, ballet-opera, and others. The music for such performances is being singled out as a special genre, and the production is being dramatized as much as possible. After another century, ballet becomes an independent art form. A significant role in this was played by the French choreographer Jean Georges Noverre, who carried out a number of reforms and made a bet on revealing the content of the production through expressive images.
Step 3
Russian ballet has always been singled out in a special category. The first performance in Russia was staged on February 8, 1673. On that day, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich was in the village of Preobrazhenskoye near Moscow and wanted to have fun. According to legend, he liked the ballet so much that he ordered to develop this direction of art.
Step 4
Russian ballet as a special part of general ballet art began to take shape at the beginning of the 19th century. The French choreographer Charles-Louis Didlot made a closer connection between dance steps and pantomime, increased the importance of the corps de ballet. It was he who made female dance the center of the production. Russian ballet would not have been known all over the world if not for the composer P. I. Tchaikovsky. It is he who owns the music that became the basis of the classical ballets "The Nutcracker", "Swan Lake", "The Sleeping Beauty" and others. Deep, soulful music made it possible for the dancers to more fully reveal the figurative content, to express the feelings and experiences of the heroes with dramatic means. On the stage, the characters grew, developed, fought with each other and themselves, fell in love, killed. Ballet has ceased to be just a form of dance, but has become a real art, understandable to the viewer.
Step 5
Academic ballet of the 19th century was chained within the framework of rules, stereotypes and conventions. At the beginning of the 20th century, not only in Russia, but also in other countries of the world, an intensified search for new forms began. Modernism appeared - an alternative to strict ballet forms, and then free dance. It is believed that the free dance was invented by Isadora Duncan. She was convinced that dance is natural, is a part of every person and reflects the language of the soul. It was Duncan who was the first to descend from ballet pointe shoes, abandoning uncomfortable packs in favor of light and flying robes. Free dance has become a world movement that has given rise to the next evolutionary round of ballet.
