THTR 1800 Chapter : 2012-10-01
Document Summary
Even though she was wronged by this man so much to kill her, she loved him so much she reached beyond the grave to save him. Giselle most performed ballet worldwide; not the nutcracker, that is the most in the us. Pas de quatre short ballet, just to show off 4 great ballerinas of the time, taglioni was one, first done in. London in the 1850s, there is no actual story, a form is still done today, light and ethereal. Everything emanated from france central for ballet. Ballet lost artisticness and ability to say something and became about pleasing the men who wanted to see girls in short skirts. Story of swanilda whose boyfriend, franz, tries to get attention of the doll thinking it"s a real person, doctor tells everyone it"s his daughter. Franz climbs in through a window, swanilda and her friends find a key and go inside, then the doctor comes back at the end of act 1.
