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Ballet in five scenes with choreography by Luipart, libretto and music by Werner Egk, and design by Wolfgang Znamenacek. Premiered ...

Ballet in five scenes. Choreography: Marcel Luipart. Music and libretto: Werner Egk. Scenery: Wolfgang Znamenacek. Costumes: Elly

A term loosely used to describe dance works without plot or character, though it has been argued that no dance can be entirely abstract given that movement is performed by men and women and must evoke some human content. Many dance works with no ostensible storyline suggest powerful images to their viewers, for example, ...

Term used by Schlemmer to describe the dance aesthetic he developed at the Bauhaus, Weimar, during the mid-1920s. Dancers dressed in elaborate, disguising costumes were choreographed to create the effect of colours and geometric forms moving in space, rather than to portray individuals or relationships....

A term loosely synonymous with classical ballet, i.e. the theatre dance which evolved from the court ballets of the 16th and 17th centuries and which was refined through the national schools of France, Italy, and Russia. Its steps, positions, and movements are codified in the danse d'école which is still taught in the daily class taken by all classical dancers....

The institution dubbed the Académie de Musique et de Poésie was founded by royal patent in 1570 by Charles IX

As the first dance institution established in the Western world, the Académie Royale de Danse is widely known by name

Institution founded in Paris in 1570 by Charles IX to foster the love and study of arts.

The first dance institution established in the Western world, founded in Paris in 1661 by Louis XIV. He gave thirteen dancing masters the task of establishing standards of perfection for the art of dance. This group met regularly (often at the tavern L'Epée de Bois) with the brief to codify existing court and character dances, as well as to subject private and public dance teachers to examination. Those who passed were given the diplomas necessary to practise their profession and appointed Académicien de l'Art de la Danse. Noverre attacked the Academy for having published no treatise on dance theory or technique, though he joined its ranks in ...

The official name given to the Paris Opera in 1671. Its original name was L'Académie d'Opéra, given by its founders ...

Several countries followed the model of the French academies of the 16th and 17th centuries by setting up institutions designed to maintain and perfect standards in the arts. One of the most famous dance academies is the Imperiale Regia Accademia di Ballo which was established in ...

School founded in Rome by Jia Ruskaia in 1948 for the training of teachers of dance.

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Brazilian dancer, choreographer, and ballet director, who pioneered the development of Brazilian ballet. She studied with Maria Makarova and with teachers in America and Europe before returning to ...

Ovid's story of the shepherd Acis and his love for the nymph Galatea (from Metamorphoses) has formed the basis of several ballet librettos, including ...

US dance writer. She studied at Smith College and at the Universities of Padua, California (Berkeley), and Rutgers, becoming critic for ...

Sengalese dancer, choreographer teacher and director. She was introduced to traditional African dance through her grandmother, a Yoruba priestess, but she also trained in Western contemporary dance styles, in Paris, New York, and with ...

Cuban dancer and director. He studied at the National Ballet School of Cuba from 1983, then at Pinar del Rio. He worked with several companies in S. America and Italy, winning a gold medal at Lausanne in ...

Modern dance work in one act with choreography and costumes by Graham, music by Carlos Surinach, and set by Noguchi...

In the context of a classical ballet class, adage (It., adagio, “slowly,” “at a leisurely pace”) covers a wide