Ballet 101 Miniseries: A Fairytale in Dance, Episode 3: Story Through Movement
Kinetic Conversations with the Fort Wayne Ballet
English - March 17, 2023 05:01 - 11 minutes - 27.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Education ballet dance fort wayne ballet choreography choreographer gerald arpino joffery ballet american ballet theatre nutcracker swan lake Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In the final part of this miniseries, we Look at Fort Wayne Ballet’s upcoming production of Swan Lake and take a look at the plot and characters in Tchaikovsky’s famed tragic tale.
Do you know who defied convention to dance in shorter skirts, paving the way to the tutu? When did ballets transition from tragedies to happy-ever-afters? When did we start dancing on point? The Ballet 101 conversations are here to fill us in on the basics of the ballet world in bite-sized doses.
This three-episode miniseries discusses the components of romantic and classical era story ballets, examining their history and the evolution their choreography, their structure, and audiences’ expectations, with a special look at our upcoming production of Swan Lake. The series will drop on consecutive Fridays in March.