2025年2月7日 · Ballet, theatrical dance in which a formal academic dance technique—the danse d’ecole—is combined with other artistic elements such as music, costume, and stage scenery. The academic technique itself is also known as ballet. Learn more about the history of …

2024年12月13日 · Ballet dancers have to work hard to attain a full turnout (the outward rotation of the legs in the hip socket so that the heels touch back to back and the feet form a 180° angle), which enables them to lift their legs high in the air in jumps or arabesques.

classical ballet, system of dance based on formalized movements and positions of the arms, feet, and body designed to enable the dancer to move with the greatest possible agility, control, speed, lightness, and grace.

2025年1月13日 · Ballet - Choreographers, Technique, Performance: Choreographers often have a more durable legacy than dancers. Frederik Ashton and Antony Tudor, both of British heritage, redefined ballet choreography in the mid-20th century and pushed forward the dramatic and psychological narratives of the dance.

Tutu, standard skirt worn by female ballet dancers, consisting of four or five layers of silk or nylon frills; the skirt is attached to a sleek-fitting bodice. (Originally tutu designated a short, trouserlike petticoat worn under a dancer’s costume.)

2025年1月23日 · Mikhail Baryshnikov (b. 1948) is a Soviet-born American actor and ballet dancer who was the preeminent male classical dancer of the 1970s and ’80s. He subsequently became a noted dance director. Baryshnikov’s acting credits include the TV series Sex and the City.

Although the roots of classical dance can be traced back through the Renaissance to medieval pageantry and religious rites, ballet as Western civilization knows it is an invention of artists associated with the French court of Louis XIV, who was known as the Sun King.

2025年1月11日 · Edgar Degas was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker who was prominent in the Impressionist group and widely celebrated for his images of Parisian life. Degas’s principal subject was the human figure, which he explored in studies of laundresses, cabaret singers, milliners, ballet dancers, and prostitutes.

2025年1月13日 · Beginning in the 1940s, Tallchief, who was a dancer of Osage Indian and Scotch-Irish descent, performed star roles with Balanchine’s New York City Ballet. She was the first Native American to become a world-renowned prima ballerina.

2025年1月21日 · Darcey Bussell (born April 27, 1969, London, England) is a British ballet dancer and celebrity of the late 20th century. Renowned for the energy and passion of her performances, she was one of the youngest artists to serve as principal dancer in the Royal Ballet of London.