By Deborah Bull
This crucial pocket consultant to this enduringly well known paintings, is an ideal advent to over 80 of the main played ballets this present day. Spanning approximately centuries of classical dancing, this fundamental booklet starts within the Romantic period of the 1830s, strikes during the nice Tchaikovskly ballets of Tsarist St Petersburg, to the inspirational paintings of Diaghilev in the beginning of the 20 th century and the luminous neo-classicism of Balanchine. Ashton and Macmillan are lined intensive, and the newest ground-breaking paintings brings us as much as the current day.
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Spinning turn in which the raised leg whips the body round. The most famous example is the sequence of thirty-two non-stop fouettés in Act 3 of Swan Lake. Gaillard. Antique French court-dance. Grand jeté. Big leap from one extended leg to the other. Jeté. Any jump from one leg to the other. Legato. Slow, smooth. Mazurka. Polish dance. Pas d’action. Ensemble dance in which the plot is advanced, usually containing the formal elements of entrée, adagio, variations and coda. Pas de bourrée. Small linking-step.
This physical interplay lends life and three-dimensionality to sequences which might otherwise appear merely academic, and is one of the means by which a dancer colours his or her performance. Fondu. The bending (lit. melting) of the supporting leg. Fouetté. Spinning turn in which the raised leg whips the body round. The most famous example is the sequence of thirty-two non-stop fouettés in Act 3 of Swan Lake. Gaillard. Antique French court-dance. Grand jeté. Big leap from one extended leg to the other.
The sorceress Madge appears from a dark corner, and the girls ask her to read their palms. She tells Effie that she will be happily married, but to Gurn, not James. Angry, James expels her. When James is once more alone, the Sylphide reappears. She seems heartbroken, and explains that she loves him, but because her love is unrequited, she must die. Overcome, James tells her that he loves her in return. Gurn sees James kissing the Sylphide and tells Effie. As Gurn and Effie enter, the Sylphide hides under Effie’s tartan shawl in the chair.