Lecture 6
Notes
Golden
Age of Ballet
Salvatore
Vigano
Carlo
Blasis
Theophile
Gautier
Romanticism
Five Famous
Ballerinas
The Golden Age of
Ballet
THE GOLDEN AGE OF BALLET
3 people
developed Ballet
Salvatore Vigano
Carlo Blasis
Theophile
Gautier
SALVATORE VIGANO, 1769-1821
Development of
pantomime to replace conventional gestures
Attempted to develop
"Choreodrame"
Groups of Dancers
treated in a plastic way, Sculptural
Composed many leading
Ballets
CARLO BLASIS, 1787-1878
Italian dancer,
teacher, choreographer
"System Practicing",
teaching the art of Ballet
Developed theories on
laws of equilibrium and balance
Develeped geometric
schemes of body's movement in excercises
1830 wrote "Code of
Terpsichore", system of Ballet instruction
Director of the Imperial
Academy of Dancing, 1837
Gifted in both writing
and anatomy
Key figure in the
development of "Danse d'ecole"
THEOPHILE GAUTIER, 1811-1872
Helped shape
public taste
Romantic Age Ballet,
Romanticism
ROMANTICISM
A revolutionary
movement in art which overthrew the rigid forms of the 18th
century
1815-1835, in France and
throughout Europe
Represented an attempt
to escape life's realities using:
Color
Fantasy
Fairy
Tales
Legends
Romantic
love
And new subject
areas:
Spiritual
Supernatural
La Sylphide,
1832
Brought the
ballerina to new heights of glamour and
popularity
Male dancer's role
decreased
1830-1840 - the height
og the Golden Age of Ballet
FIVE FAMOUS BALLERINAS 1804-1884
1. Marie
Taglioni, 1804-18884
La
Sylphide
Art of toe
dancing
Great
Elevation
Modified
traditional costume
2. Fanny Essler
1810-1884
Earthy, Excellent
technician
Acting
ablity
1840
America
Perfected
character dances
3. Fanny Corrito
1821-1899
Danced
Europe
Almost as poular
as Taglioni
4. Carlotta Grisi
1821-1899
Role of
Giselle
"Pas de Quatre",
1845
5. Petipa
50 years in
Russia
Father of
Classical Ballet
Don
Quixote
Sleeping
Beauty
Giselle
Coppelia
Swan
Lake
La
Sylphide
Gifted
choreographer
Detailed research
and planning
Format of
full-length Ballets
Firmly fixed
Classical style and structure
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