Description: Swan Lake - Full Length Ballet by American Ballet Theatre, Swan Lake – Dance of the cygnets (The Royal Ballet), Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker (The Royal Ballet), Sleeping Beauty - Full Performance - Live Ballet
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Ballet / ˈ b æ l eɪ / ( French: [balɛ] ) is a type of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread, highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary based on French terminology . It has been globally influential and has defined the foundational techniques used in many other dance genres. Becoming a ballet dancer requires years of training. Ballet has been ta
Ballet may also refer to a ballet dance work , which consists of the choreography and music for a ballet production. A well-known example of this is The Nutcracker , a two-act ballet that was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a music score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky . Ballets are choreographed and performed by trained artists. Many classical ballets are performed with classical music accompaniment and use elaborate costumes and staging, though there are exceptions to this. Most
Ballet is a 1995 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman . It portrays rehearsals, choreography, performances, business transactions, and other day-to-day life of the American Ballet Theatre . Much of the footage dates from the 1992 season. It also includes scenes from the company's European tour, namely in Greece and Copenhagen.