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Pointe
Genvieve Gosselin, Amalia Brugnoli and Avdotia Istomina danced on pointe without the aid of wires -
Period: to
Peak of Romantic Ballet
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Robert Le Diable
Youtube Choreogrphed by Filippo Taglioni,
Setting was in a grave yard "Ballet of the Nuns"
Danced by Marie Taglioni at Paris Opera
Began Romanticism Ballet -
Revolt in the Harem
Choreo by Taglioni
about the emancipation of women -
Fanny Elssler
Performed in Le Diable Boiteux labeled "pagan dancer" -
La Sylphide
YoutubeChoreo by Filippo Taglioni danced by Marie Taglioni
Young scottsman James falls in love with a spirit of the air a Sylphide. He is tricked by a witch and when he tries to capture her with a shawl her wings burn off and she dies. They can never be together. -
Carlo Blasis
Appointed director of Royal Academy of dance at La Scala in Milan. Created Attitude position. -
Giselle
Youtube GiselleChoreographed by Jean Coralli in colaboration with Jules Perrot
Performed by Carlotta Grisi
Act One: Giselle falls in love with Albrecht who poses as a peasant but is royalty who is affianced. Giselle dies.
Act two: Albrecht visits Giselle's grave and is forced to dance to death by Queen Myrtha of the willis. Giselles love stops him from dying but they can never be together. -
Pas de Quatre
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Benjamen Lumley
included Taglioni, Cerrito,Grisi, and Crahn four great ballerinas dancing together. Pretty movement. the decline of romantic ballet -
Coppelia
youtube"Last great ballet" choreo by Arthur Saint-Leon
included Hungarian folk dance
score by Leo Delibes
Comical plot performed by Giusepoina Bozzacchi
Swanilda poses as Dr Coppelius doll whom her boyfriend loves however he finds out it was a doll after she plays a trick on him. -
Don Quixote
comedy by Petipa -
Sleeping Beauty
Choreo by Petipa musoc by Tchaikovosky -
Swan Lake