DANC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pas De Quatre, Marius Petipa, Melodrama
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Petipa (italian) 1862 daughter of pharaoh: treasure of russian ballet. (carolina. Rosati demanded a new ballet for herself) russian choreographers specialized in melodrama, foreign choreographers influential. Dancing provided women with job security and independence. Male at state ballet schools equal of military/naval academies and had similar uniforms. Petipa flourished ballet in st. petersburg, collaborated with tchaikovsky, narrative stretched-out ballet with divertissement (divert not to advance plot) in the end of ballet. Don quixote, the sleeping beauty (growth of woman) , the nutcracker, parts of swan lake (collaborated with ivanov- more concise) also by petipa. 1968 pas de quatre replay (solo, not as light/jumpy, very calm in the beginning, more jumps and synchronization toward ends. ) ballet evolved (fanny elssler the.
