Talk:Romantic ballet

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I just made this page. Still need something on Pas de Quatre, and pictures would really help. mary

great start
well done, couldn't quite get round to this - here are some note to help you work on the page:

the romantic ballet period was defined by


 * the ethereal and supernatural - with ghosts, and spirits (the ballet blanc)
 * the battle between good and bad / the battle for love (tragedy, death)
 * exotic locations (interpretations of exotic dances)
 * the cult of the ballerina
 * Fillipo Taglioni the father of romantic ballet
 * allegro - terre a terre light and quick to appear floating (ethereal and supernatural) (Italian school of Ballet technique)

don't forget


 * La Valse Infernale (1831) (The Hellish Waltz) from the opera Robert le Diable (Robert the Devil) is considered the earliest example of romantic ballet and was choreographed by Fillipo Taglioni (it's the one with dead nuns who come back to life and dance about unrequited love)
 * Emma Livry - last of the romantic ballerinas
 * Clara Webster - also burned to death
 * Jules Perrot choreographed the Pas de Quatre
 * the fitted bodice (leaving the shoulders and neck bare), three quarter length bell shaped tutu (rather than the 'plate' tutu of classical (Russian) ballet) were designed by Eugene Lamy. BUT bare ankles and muslin costumes had been seen before that time (as had pointe work).
 * the Italian school was responsible for the virtuoso ballet technique of the female dancers, the legacy of Carlo Blasis (1797 - 1878) see
 * the male dancers of the romantic ballet
 * August Bournonville (1805 - 1879) and his legacy -

I would suggest that narrative ballet is more appropriate than story ballet.

the romatic period in ballet does not realy match the other arts. indeed may romatic ballets were danced to classical music and may classical ballets to romantic music (music runs classical to romatic)

perhaps choreographers would also be usefull? and discription of the styles that each of the famous five were so well known for.

keep going .. Ohka- 01:38, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

poduction of romantic ballet
how romantic ballets were created:


 * libretto written in isolation from the other elements of the ballet and created as for a particular dancer
 * often included sylphs, wilis, shades, water nymphs, swans, ghosts
 * aet in exotic or romantic settings
 * music composed according to number of dances set out by the maître de ballet (choreographer)
 * created in isolation to the libretto the music was not always an appropriate fit.
 * often included popular marches, polkas, waltzes and national music
 * choreography - used a set formula and design to show of the lead ballerina.
 * etablished steps and inclusion of the lead ballerinas best technical skills
 * prima ballerina: pas de deux with variations and coda, pas d’action, pas de caractère
 * premier danseur: pas de deux, variations, pas de caractère
 * corps de ballet: ballabiles
 * scenography created last and may have re used elements from previous productions. also may have ben created in isolation

Horrible inaccuracies
This article is horribly inaccurate, and leaves out so much history about the true "players" of the Romantic movement in ballet - for example Paul (not Fillipo) Taglioni, Joseph Mazilier, Jean Coralli, and, most of all, Jules Perrot, who is to the Romantic ballet what Petipa is to the classical.

Marie Taglioni WAS NOT the first Ballerina to dance en pointe. It is not known for certain who was the first, but it surely wasn't her.

Furthermore Fillipo Taglioni's original 1832 production of La Sylphide for the Paris Opera was far from being the first Romantic Ballet.....VERY VERY FAR!

Regarding the music of this era, in it's heyday (circa 1830 until 1850), the bulk of the music that such Ballerinas of the Romantic ballet as Marie Taglioni, Fanny Cerrito, Lucile Grahn, Carolina Rosati, Fanny Cerrito, and so on had their triumphs to was the music of Cesare Pugni.

--Mrlopez2681 12:07, 1 December 2006 (UTC)