Lecture Outline Week Six Text Chapter Five Ballet Classical and Contemporary Ballet Section Video Ballet Russes The Kirov Celebrates Nijinsky The Joffrey Celebrates Nijinsky Bringing Balanchine Back Balanchine Classical into Contemporary Ballet Grand Classical Pas de Deux Entr e Adagio Variations Coda Well Known Graduates of the Imperial School Fokine Pavlova Nijinsky Balanchine o Graduates of the Imperial School whose portraits are no longer hung on the historic walls why Serge Diaghilev 1872 1929 convinced some of the best of the school to leave Russia with him to further the art in another place reason why there portraits were taken down formed ballet russes in Paris o Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo died when Diaghilev died prince of Monico started monte carlo raided by Lincoln o Michel Fokine 1880 1942 Petrouchka and Spectre de la Rose teacher and choreographer maker of dances o Vaslav Nijinsky 1889 1950 L Apres midi d un Faune 1912 The Afternoon of a Faun student in the school not a member of the core ballet unusual physique not a typical Russian physique o Anna Pavlova Natalia Makarova b 1940 Rudolf Nureyev 1938 1993 Mikhail Baryshnikov b 1948 Fokine s principles of choreography Story Lines Choreographers Composers Significance of each ballet Royal Ballet Ballet Rambert London Festival Ballet Northern Ballet Theatre Margot Fonteyn 1919 1991 Alicia Markova 1910 2004 Collaboration with notable artists composter designers Matisse Picasso Ravel etc Leonide Massine 1895 1979 George Balanchine 1904 1983 o Balanchine s Legacy over 460 dances and full length ballets o School of American Ballet established by Balanchine to train dancers to perform in the New York City ballet Contemporary Ballet o Pointe shoes still exist o Different music approaches to story lines movement etc o More abstract o Many different costumes Often Plotless Ballets with Minimal Costume and Set Design Neo Classical Style of Ballet Lincoln Kirstein 1907 1995 New York City Ballet o Jerome Robbins 1918 1998 o Peter Martins 1946 current artistic director Lincoln Center American Ballet Theatre Joffrey Ballet Robert Joffrey 1930 1988 Dance Theatre of Harlem Arthur Mitchell b 1934 San Francisco Ballet Pacific Northwest Ballet Serenade Apollo Mozartiana Allegro Brillante Agon Stars and Stripes Jewels Who Cares Violin Concerto The Prodigal Son A Midsummer Night s Dream Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Collaboration with numerous varied composers Bizet Verdi Prokofiev Prokofieff Stravinsky Tchaikovsky Gershwin Broadway Work On Your Toes 1936 The Boys from Syracuse 1938 Barnum and Bailey Ringling Brothers Circus