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Dance A-Z
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A is for ... Altynai Asylmuratova, Arabesque, Audience and ...

Princess Aurora from The Sleeping Beauty
Choreography: Petipa, 1890
Music: Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
Princess Aurora has a spell cast on her by the wicked fairy Carabosse. Aurora falls into a deep sleep for a hundred years, but is rescued by the handsome Prince Désiré who awakens her; at the end of the ballet they get married in a grand ceremony.


B is for ... Bourrée, Barre, Ballet, Bayadère, Bun and ...

Ballerina
A female principal ballet dancer. A dancer has to work very hard in the corps de ballet before she becomes a professional ballerina. She has to take many ballet classes and the training takes many years.

Benesh Notation
A code of symbols used to write down dance movements. It was invented by Rudolf and Joan Benesh in 1955, and is used all over the world to recreate ballets from scores.


C is for ... Cecchetti, Class, Character, Corps de Ballet, Corpse and ...

Coppélia
Choreography: St Léon, 1870
Music: Delibes (1836 - 1891)
Dr Coppelius makes a doll, Coppélia. Swanilda’s fiancé, Franz, falls in love with Coppélia and Dr Coppelius tries to bring her to life with an extraordinary machine. Swanilda pretends to be Coppélia, but Franz recognises her. They are reunited.

Corps de Ballet
All the dancers in a ballet company who are not soloists or principals.

Choreographer
Have you ever made up your own dance? If you have, then you were the choreographer of your dance. A choreographer is a person who creates dances, and comes from the Greek words choros (dance) and -graphein (to write).


D is for ... Dance, Dessus, Dessous, Diva, Devant, Derrière and ...

Disco
A place where you dance to pop records which are chosen by a Disc Jockey. The first disco opened in the 1960s. Disco is short for the French word Discothèque.

Demi-plié
A dance movement which involves bending your knees while keeping your heels on the floor.


E is for ... Elevation, Entrechat quatorze and ...

Fanny Elsser (1810 - 1884)
Fanny Elsser was one of the most famous ballerinas of the Romantic era. Her most famous dance, the Cachucha (in Le Diable Boiteux, 1836), was a Spanish-style solo performed with castanets.


F is for ... Fouetté, Frappé, Fame and ...

Fish dive
A step in which a male dancer catches his partner as she swoops towards the ground in a fish-like movement. The woman has to trust her partner. Bumping your head can be painful!


G is for ... Giselle, Glissé, Glissade, Gamzatti, Gargouillade, Green room, Gobo and ...

Genée, Dame Adeline
Dame Adeline Genée (1878-1970) was a dancer before she co-founded the Association of Operatic Dancing, as the Royal Academy of Dance was then known, in 1920. Today Adeline Genée's name is remembered by the studio at Academy headquarters and by the annual Adeline Genée Competition. Here you can see Adeline Genée performing in Vineland at the Empire Theatre, 1903.

Green Room
This is the place where dancers go to relax in between classes, rehearsals and performances. It is called the 'green' room because the walls are traditionally painted green, as this is considered a relaxing colour


H is for ... Hairnet, Hubbard Street and ...

Hair
Ballet dancers' have always to be well groomed and tidy. Have a look at a ballet dancer in performance - their hair is always tidy! They use hairnets and hairgrips to hold their hair in place, and have to be able to style their own hair in different ways depending on the show that they are going to dance in.


I for... Indian Dance, Idzikowski and ...

Indian Dance
There are many forms of Indian Dance that are performed and taught today. Kathak is one of the four main forms of Indian Dance, the others being Bharata Natyam, Kathakali and Manipuri. The word Kathak is comes from two words, Katha for story and Kathaka for storyteller. Dancers wear bells around their ankles, which act as percussion instruments. Here you can see Gauri Sharma Tripathi, a professional Kathak dancer, in a striking Kathak pose.


J is for ... Jeté, Jambe, Jazz and ...

Jiving
A type of energetic dancing, popular in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s, which came from the American Jitterbug. This will make your heart beat faster!

Jump
There are many different kinds of jumps in dance - sauté, jeté, soubresaut and sissonne, for example. How many more can you think of? The dancer above is doing a Bournonville grand jeté, in which the back leg is kept in attitude.


K is for ... Kitri, Kick, Knee and ...

Kirov
One of the best-known ballet companies in the world, the Kirov is based at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg in Russia. Many famous dancers have come from the Kirov school or company, including Natalia Makarova, Altynai Asylmuratova and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Karsavina, Tamara Platonovna
Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978) had a long career as a dancer with the Diaghilev Company and Ballet Rambert before she co-founded the Association of Operatic Dancing, as the Royal Academy of Dance was then known, in 1920. Karsavina was Vice-President of the Academy until 1955 and is remembered today as one of the greatest ballerinas of her time.


L is for ... Lambada, Labanotation, Lighting barrell and ...

Lighting
Is used on stage to create special effects or to light up objects or performers (called a spotlight or special). . Most shows would need 50 lights – some need at least 200. The expression 'in the limelight' goes back to the fact that on old gas-lit stages, the brightest lights were called the 'limes', because they were made of lime heated with a flame of oxygen and hydrogen.


M is for ... Mirror, Mukhamedov, Madam, Music and ...

Mime
A set of gestures each with a particular meaning which help to tell a story without using speech. In ballet, dancers often explain parts of the story using mime. What do you think the gesture in the picture above means?

Moulin Rouge
In the 1830’s, the can can was danced in Paris. The can can became wild and acrobatic, it was seen as rude. The French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted the dancers in his posters.


N is for ... Nureyev, Notation and ...

Nutcracker
Choreography: Ivanov, 1892
Music: Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
The young girl Clara is given a Nutcracker for Christmas. At night, everything seems to grow much bigger, and she is chased by some huge mice, who fight her and the toy soldiers. Clara rescues the Nutcracker by attacking the King Rat. The Nutcracker turns into a handsome prince, who takes her to the Kingdom of Sweets, where fairytale characters entertain her.


O is for ... Ondine, Odette, Odile, Open class and ...

Odette from Swan Lake
Choreography: Reisinger 1877
Music: Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
The evil magician Rothbart turns Princess Odette into a swan. She can only become a princess again if a man swears his love for her. Prince Siegfried falls in love with her, and promises to rescue her. Rothbart plays a nasty trick on him, however, by disguising his own daughter (Odile) as a black swan at a ball. Tragically, Siegfried mistakes Odile for Odette and marries the wrong swan! Depending on which version you see, he and Odette plunge heartbroken into a lake, or manage to break Rothbart's spell and live happily ever after.
Traditionally, Odette and Odile (white swan and black swan) are played by the same ballerina.


P is for ... Paquita, Position, Petrushka, Piqué, Pirouette, Plié, penché, Pilates and ...

Paint pots
Hundreds of paint pots are used to paint scenery for a performance, which can be changed at various times. Here you can see scenic artists of English National Ballet painting the scenery for one of their productions.


Q is for ... Quadrille, Quickstep, Queen of the Wilis and ...

Queen of the Wilis
In the second act of Giselle (1841), Giselle has died, and gone to join a group of ghostly girls called wilis. The Queen of the Wilis is called Myrtha, and is very cold and commanding.

Quatre, pas de
A Pas de Quatre is a dance for four people. There is a very famous pas de quatre which was danced in 1845 by the ballerinas Marie Taglioni, Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Cerrito and Lucile Grahn.


R is for ... Romeo & Juliet, Rise, Révérence, Revoltade, Renversé and ...

Rosin
This is a sticky golden substance that comes from pine or larch trees. Dancers crush it up and rub their shoes in it so that their feet don't slip. If your studio has a lino floor, you should never use rosin on it. You can also see gymnasts putting rosin on their hands.


S is for ... Stage, Swan Lake, Serenade, Stalls, Solo and ...

Shin-splint
‘Shin-splints’ is a pain in the front of your shin which happens if you don’t put your heels down when you land from a jump, or if you jump around on a concrete floor too much.

Smoke Machine
Have you ever heard a hissing noise in the theatre? It might have been the smoke machine. This is an electronic device which heats up special liquids. When someone presses a button, the machine sprays fog all over the stage. This is sometimes known as dry ice.


T is for ... Teachers, Theatre, Tap, Tango, Tchaikovsky and ...

Tutu
A tutu is a ballet skirt. There are two main types: the classical tutu which is flat, round and stiff and the romantic tutu, which is long and flowing. You’ll see romantic tutus in Giselle (1841) and Les Sylphides (1909), and classical tutus in The Sleeping Beauty (1890) and Paquita (1846).


U is for ... Unusual, Urlezaga, Ultraviolet and ...

Unitard
A unitard is an all-in-one leotard and tights outfit worn by dancers for class and rehearsals. Did you know that the leotard got its name from the man who invented it in 1859, Monsieur Jules Leotard, a French trapeze artist?


V is for ... Viennese Waltz, Vestris, Vaganova, Volochkova, Van Manen and ...

Vaganova method
A system of teaching developed by Agrippina Vaganova (1879 - 1951) who was a dancer, teacher and ballet director. In 1957, the St Petersburg Ballet School was renamed the Vaganova Institute. Vaganova technique is the main basis of ballet training in Russia.

Dame Ninette de Valois
Dame Ninette de Valois (1898-2001) was a dancer, choreographer, teacher and ballet director. She was one of the greatest pioneers of British Ballet, having founded the Royal Ballet and Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet.


W is for ... Wings, Warm-up, Waltz, Water ballet and ...

Wings
These are the sides of a stage, which are out of view of the audience so that they can't see the actors or dancers before they come onto the stage. The picture above shows what it is like to be standing in the wings during a performance.


X is for ... Xylophone, Xenon and ...

X spot
If you look behind you next time you’re at the ballet, you might see a lamp with a glowing red cross on it, attached to the middle of the balcony. This is to give the dancers something to ‘spot’ on when they are doing a pirouette.


Y is for ... Yat Sen Chang, Yves St Laurent and ...

Mikayo Yoshida
A principal dancer with the Royal Ballet. She was born and trained in Tokyo, then studied at the Royal Ballet School in London. She has won many awards for her dancing, and is well known for her performances of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake. In this picture, Mikayo Yoshida is performing in The Royal Ballet's production of La Fille mal gardée.


Z is for ... Zenaida Yanowsky, Monica Zamora and ...

Monica Zamora in The Nutcracker Sweeties
A principal with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Monica was born in Spain and trained at Ion Beitia School. She joined The Royal Ballet School at the age of 16, and Birmingham Royal Ballet in 1991. Her principal roles have included Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Odette in Swan Lake. Here, Monica Zamora is performing the Sugar Rum Cherry variation from Birmingham Royal Ballet's production of The Nutcracker Sweeties.

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