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standing there. I, Misty Copeland, have opened the gates of ballet to all races, and made a fundamental leap in ballet history. In order to fully grasp my importance, you need to learn about my entrance into the ballet world and my charity work to help get kids of all races into a suitable future. Growing up was never easy for me, but I did not let that stop me from pursuing my ballet career. I didn’t grow up doing ballet, and taking my first ballet class at the Boys and Girls Club at age 13 gave me a

This was my favorite for two main reasons: it is a piece from the famous ballet The Nutcracker and it has simple, interesting, and recognizable melody. I have always loved going to the ballet, especially when I was a little girl, and The Nutcracker is a classic ballet that I have seen multiple times before. This piece of music from the ballet is the song that I have always been able to recognize and connect with this certain ballet. The “Dance of the Reed Pipes” is organized in three-part (trinary) form

the rank of ballet master and principal choreographer. It was at Diaghilev’s instance that the surname Balanchivadze was shortened to Balanchine (“George Balanchine Biography” 2014). As the Ballet Russes’s resident choreographer, Balanchine would create eleven full-length works, among them the L'Enfant et les Sortilèges to the music of French composer Maurice Ravel and Le Chant du Rossignol, accompanied by a Stravinsky score. Other notable ballets choreographed exclusively for the Ballet Russes include

associated with grace and beauty. A ballet company would be considered a utopia for many little girls. They imagine being center stage with a tiara and a big tutu on. The public would not consider the world of professional ballet to be as corrupt as it is. There is trickery, politics, discrimination, and even self-sabotage in the seemingly harmless world. The tinkling music box world suddenly becomes a startlingly bleak place. In the world of professional ballet, the different places one can work

wanted to express a more modern take on The Nutcracker and use an ensemble to create a piece that is inclusive in the times. Mark Morris is known as one of “the most successful and influential choreographers alive, and indisputably the most musical” (New York Times). From Seattle, Washington Morris performed with companies like Lar Lubovitch, Laura Dean, Hannah Kahn, Eliot Feld, and

Leah Grace Hamilton The ballet that I watched online was The Australian Ballet Company’s Sleeping Beauty, performed to music from The Elizabethan Melbourne Orchestra. Sleeping Beauty was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa at the Imperial Ballet in Russia in 1889. In 1890, it was first performed in St. Petersburg. All of the ballet’s music was composed by Tchaikovsky. There is a prologue and three acts in this ballet. It starts with Aurora as a baby. In this scene, everyone is at the palace

The music of The Nutcracker is very joyful and entertaining. It almost feels like it is inviting the audience to dance. The theme is light yet lively, and easy to remember. The Indian music Savitha Sastray is also lively, yet the rhythms are different from The Nutcracker. In The Nutcracker, the music seems to use a binary form, whereas the Indian music seem to use ternary rhythms. The music of The Nutcracker is only instrumental, with the use of an entire orchestra, while the Indian music contains

Concert Review: The Richmond Symphony Orchestra featuring The Richmond Ballet Amber Hisaw Regent University – Music 101 On the evening of Sunday, December 16, 2012, I had the pleasure of attending a concert I’d wanted to see for quite a while. I was delighted to attend Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, performed by the Richmond Symphony Orchestra and the Richmond Ballet. The performance took place at Carpenter Theatre in Richmond Virginia. As I entered I felt a bit out of place. I’d never attended

The Nutcracker: Live On the 26th of November, 2016, I had the wonderful opportunity to witness the Colorado Ballet Orchestra perform the nutcracker live. The concert was at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, and the phenomenal symphony was led by Adam Flatt. This was my first ever classical concert as well as concert, and I was not disappointed. The performance was wonderful, and the opera house was beautiful. The Nutcracker performance was one hour and fifty minutes long, therefore

Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, recounts the tale of the revolutionized American dance by consolidating advanced customary dance to make another brave work of art. The Joffrey Ballet was an group that effectively went out on a limb that changed the dance form for eternity. As the title indicates, the film depicts the organization as a nonconformist – the principal American dance company to coordinate current dance moves into its traditional expressive dance base, and one that was so associated