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:


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balletmom December 24, 2009 at 5:58 am

Do you have any info or recommended links to Midsummer’s Night Dream?

Emilia December 24, 2009 at 5:18 pm

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.

Lady Red August 3, 2010 at 3:36 pm

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. :)

Linda August 3, 2010 at 3:44 pm

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! :)

Rarar November 4, 2010 at 11:15 pm

What about Coppelia and Don Quixote? ):

Emilia November 4, 2010 at 11:18 pm

Great! Suggestions noted!

Cathrine Katsigianni November 19, 2010 at 12:33 pm

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

Linda November 20, 2010 at 8:50 am

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.

Sarah Alice April 6, 2011 at 1:29 am

La Bayadere would be a lovely addition (:

Linda April 6, 2011 at 9:58 am

We will have a Bayadère fact card soon, we promise! :)

Beth February 7, 2012 at 12:01 am

Could you do one for Don Quixote?I really would like to find a video link for the march in act 3.

Emilia February 7, 2012 at 11:45 pm

Hi Beth, suggestion noted, we’ll try to get one sorted soon :)

Bethany April 18, 2012 at 3:47 am

I don’t know if this is still a little new, but is it possible to get Alice In Wonderland?

Natalie May 16, 2012 at 8:06 pm

Don Quixote would be much appreciated!

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