Bag of Ballets
(Keep checking this page, we will be filling it with lots of ballet fact cards! Feel free to use the comment form below if you have any suggestions for our bag of ballets.)
Click on links to read about different ballets, their backgrounds & stories:
- Agon
- Artifact
- Carmen
- Cinderella
- Concerto
- Elite Syncopations (special feature on costumes)
- La Fille Mal Gardée
- The Firebird
- A Folk Tale
- Giselle
- Jewels
- Lady of the Camellias
- Laurencia
- The Little Humpbacked Horse
- Marguerite & Armand
- Mayerling
- The Nutcracker
- Ondine
- Onegin
- Les Patineurs
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Sleeping Beauty
- Sphinx
- Swan Lake
- Sylvia
- La Sylphide
- Les Sylphides
- Symphony in C
- Wayne McGregor’s works for the Royal Ballet
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Do you have any info or recommended links to Midsummer’s Night Dream?
Balletmom,
BalletMet has v. good webnotes on Nixon’s version, including a list of all the other balletic versions of Midsummer’s Night Dream:
http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/Midsummer.html
Let us know in case you are looking for more info on other versions. We intend to do a fact card for Ashton’s The Dream in due course.
Best,
E.
Can you shed any light on the storyline of Le Corsaire please? I am going to see the Bolshoi production tonight and am not familiar at all. Wikipedia wasn’t much use other than background. Thank you ballet fans.
Hi! We will write (at some point) a fact card on Le Corsaire but given that you have little time and you are going today, here is a synopsis: http://bit.ly/bNps49
The good thing about the Bolshoi’s production is that Ratmansky and Burlaka made sure that the storytelling was clear. I took a friend yesterday and without telling her much she was able to follow the narrative.
Enjoy Osipova+Vasiliev. I’ll be there so if around please say hi!
What about Coppelia and Don Quixote? ):
Great! Suggestions noted!
I am a postgraduate student of Ballet Studies at Roehampton University(London)and I would like to find some material about tradition (historical and social/cultural aspects)in the arts and dance for my essay.Could you please point me to some resourses?
Many thanks Catrhrine
Hi Cathrine
There are many books out there and it is hard to give a recommendation without knowing exactly what you are looking for. Books on ballet history often deal with the social and cultural aspects of the time in which the art form shaped itself, and how the tradition was passed on. It depends if you are looking at a particular ballet tradition or company or even country. We’re currently reading Homans’s Apollo’s Angels, a ballet history book dealing with the social and political background of the art form. Another good resources is the Cambridge Companion series. There is one devoted solely to ballet.
La Bayadere would be a lovely addition (:
We will have a Bayadère fact card soon, we promise!
Could you do one for Don Quixote?I really would like to find a video link for the march in act 3.
Hi Beth, suggestion noted, we’ll try to get one sorted soon
I don’t know if this is still a little new, but is it possible to get Alice In Wonderland?
Don Quixote would be much appreciated!