Dance 101 Flach Lecture 4 Outline of Last Lecture I Exam over Primitive Ancient Medieval and Renaissance times Outline of Current Lecture II Romantic Era III Ballet La Sylphide Current Lecture The Romantic Era Ballets of the Romantic Era 1800s France is still the epicenter of Ballet Dancers wore pointe shoes satin slipper with a wooden box at the toe Ideal ballet body long arms and legs good elevation strong jump short torso small head Russian ballet schools will not take a child who does not have a ballet body This body can take technique that is being posed upon Know the names of ballets La Sylphide 1832 setting storyline characters innovations techniques sylph o Filippo Taglioni 1778 1871 choreographer from Italy who is working in France worked with Royal Academy Of Dance and the Paris Opera daughter was a well known ballerina ballerinas were role models for young women He created this ballet for his daughter o Typical romantic tragedy STORY ballet o 2 hour ballet with lots of pantomime music in this ballet tells you what is going to happen o Notes on this Ballet we watched during classo Story line of this balleto Act I La Sylphide is a ballerina wearing a skirt called a tutu romantic era they are long in white she is the main character She is a sylph a fairy another nonhuman ethereal creature the wings she is wearing tells the audience this o Set in Scotland grand manor house early in the morning lighting tells mood place time of day wedding day o Mechanical devices used in this ballet for the first time by engineers o Starts off with a man sleeping in a chair James he wakes up to Sylph who he cannot touch Then many others come in for a celebration gathering for a party This ballet is the eve of the wedding of the sleeping man he is engaged to the woman in plaid These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o o o o o o o o o Very odd looking woman by the fire James tried to throw her out of his house but his friends stopped him This woman is reading palms playing a character of a witch because she has some kinds of powers She tells James wife that she will be happily married but not with her fianc because she says he will end up with her best friend James tries to throw the odd witch out but fianc stops him Everyone leaves stage except for James Sylph is back and is very sad She dances with James who is trying to make her not be sad She says she is sad because he is getting married and then she dances for him She leaves and James dances alone very athletically Females are much less athletic and more delicate Act II starts off with odd witch woman again doing lots of dancing pantomime she was making a potion with her other wicked witches Set in the forest 3 sylphs with Queen of the sylph in middle Prima ballerina the main Sylph and premier danseur James The main sylph dies because James was tricked to give her the potion from the witch James is very sad ends up being a tragedy because he cannot be with her