All About

Ballet Dance

Prepared by: Group 1

Angela Pogoso
Joilian Donato
Gigilyn Dela Peña
Nicole Amoranto
Jesus Astrera
Freddie Villas
 What is Ballet?

• Ballet is a way of telling a story

using a music and dance instead of
words.
• It consists of patterns movement
which have developed over
centuries.
• Dancers who performed ballet are
highly trained.
• Ballet is found all around the
world, for instance in Europe,
USA, Japan, China and South
America.
 Origins of Ballet

 The art of Ballet can trace

its origins to the early
seventeenth century,
when dancers performed
to entertain audiences
between scenes of an
opera.
 Origins of Ballet

These short dances grew in popularity and

importance until they became a form of theater in
their own right, accompanied by a standardization of
movements and defining of other stylistic
conventions.
 History of Ballet

• The history of ballet begins

around 1500 in Italy.
Terms like “ballet” and
“ball” stem from the
Italian word "ballare,"
which means "to dance."
When Catherine de Medici
of Italy married the French
King Henry II, she
introduced early dance
styles into court life in
France.
 History of Ballet

• The root of ballet go back more than 100

years. It begun in the Italian nobleman who
sang, danced and recited poems. When
ballet were first performed, men played the
female roles, disguising themselves with
wigs and masks. Women, finally were
allowed to dance publicly in 1681.
• Ballet were spread to the French court.
 King Louis XIV, The Sun King

King Louis XIV of

France was by all
accounts a passionate
dancer. He was known
as the Sun King. He
had appeared as the
Sun god, Apollo in Le
Ballet de la Nuit (The
Ballet of the Night), at
the age of 15.
King Louis XIV

• In 1661, King Louis

XIV of France
founded the
Académie Royale de
Musique et de
Danse, establishing
Paris as the center
of academic ballet.
French Court Ballets

 Most French court ballets

consisted of dance scenes
linked by a minimum of
plot.
 Because they were
designed principally for
the entertainment of the
aristocracy, rich costumes,
scenery, and elaborate
stage effects were
emphasized.
Court Ballet Peak

The court ballet reached its

peak during the reign (1643-
1715) of Louis XIV, whose
title the Sun King was
derived from a role he
danced in a ballet.
 Court Ballets

Many of the ballets presented at his court were

created by the Italian-French composer Jean
Baptiste Lully and the French choreographer Pierre
Beauchamp, who is said to have defined the five
positions of the feet.
Also during this time, the playwright Moliere
invented the comedie-ballet, in which danced
interludes alternated with spoken scenes.
 The Move to Professional Dancers

 Louis XIV stopped dancing in 1670, and his courtiers

followed his example.

 By then the court ballet was already giving way to

professional dancing. At first all the dancers were men, and
men in masks danced women's roles.

 The first female dancers to perform professionally in a

theater production appeared (1681) in a ballet called Le
Triomphe de l'Amour (The Triumph of Love).
 Pointe Shoes

• To enhance the image of

the dancer’s
weightlessness.

• Ballerinas began wearing

Pointe Shoes in the mid-
1800 but shoes had no
support. Pointe shoes were
made famous by ballerina
Anna Pavlova in the 1900s.
 What is Tutu?

Tutu is a skirt made of a net fabric called Tule. It

allowed the dancer to show the technique of the
legs and feet on stage.
 Romantic Era

The era began with the 1827 début in

Paris of the ballerina Marie Taglioni in
the ballet La Sylphide, 
The era marked the rise of
the ballerina as a central part of ballet.
She was one of the most celebrated
ballerinas of the romantic ballet.
Considered to be the first dancer to
dance en pointe.
Known for shortening her skirt in La
Sylphide, which was considered highly
scandalous at the time.  Marie Taglioni in La Sylphide
 Classical Ballet

 Classical ballet is generally structured

on a narrative pretext. It is important
that the audience has an
understanding of the basic story line
so as to fully understand the complex
combination of movement, music and
storytelling that makes up a
performance.
 Some ballets, like the Nutcracker or
Sleeping Beauty, are based on
traditional stories that are familiar
even today; others are more obscure
and require a greater effort on the
part of the dancers and the audience
to fully understand their meaning.
 Modern Era
• Ballet that are created in this
century.
• They do not always have a definite
story but they have a theme.
• These ballet concentrate more on
emotions and atmospheres and
attempt to arouse the feelings of
the audiences.
• They use the parallel position of
the feet instead of turn out.
• Example of modern ballet-
Firebird (George Balanchine)
 Ballet Arizona

• Founded in 1986 as resident ballet company for Arizona

• Directed by Jean-Paul Comelin formally a dancer from
Stuttgart Ballet.
• In 2000, Ib Anderson was named artistic director.
• As a former dancer for New York City Ballet mounted many
Balanchine dances on company.
The Philippine Prima Ballerina

 Lisa Teresita Pacheco

Macuja-Elizalde (born
October 3, 1964) is a Filipino
prima ballerina. In 1984, she
became the first foreign
soloist to ever join the Kirov
Ballet.
 First Filipino ballerina to win
the silver medal from the
1987 Asia-Pacific Ballet
Competition in Tokyo
The Five Basic Position in
Ballet
Arm Position
Feet Position
Arm and Feet Position