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Ballet
Descended from the court spectacles of Italy and France, ballet is a theatrical dance form consisting of codified movements and a training system designed to produce specific aesthetic lines. Two defining characteristics, which require years of highly specialized training, are the use of turn-out of the legs from the hip so that the knees and feet point outwards and en pointe through which the ballerina rises onto the tips of her toes. Another more comprehensive definition comes from Louis Horst & Carroll Russell, "a secure and powerful centre of gravity in an upright back from which the brilliant movements of arm and legs give an unreal and superhuman impression."
Looking for an Ballet teacher or school in Nova Scotia? Click here
Looking for more information on Ballet? Check out our links list below.
Ballet Links
Internationally Renowned Ballet Schools
Akademie des Tanzes, Mannheim, Germany
Antwerp Royal Ballet School, Antwerp, Belgium
Australian Ballet School, Victoria, Australia
Canada's National Ballet School, Toronto, Canada
Central School of Ballet, London, Great Britain
Ecole Nationale Superieure de Danse de Marseille, Marseille, France
Ecole Superieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower, Cannes, France
English National Ballet School, London, Great Britain
Hamburg Ballettschule - John Neumeier, Hamburg, Germany
Houston Ballet Ben Stevenson Academy, Houston (TX), USA
Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest, Hungary
John Cranko-Schule, Stuttgart, Germany
National Conservatory Dance School, Lisbon, Portugal
New Zealand School of Dance, Wellington, New Zealand
North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem (NC), USA
Perm State Ballet School, Perm, Russia
Royal Ballet School, London, Great Britain
Royal Conservatory, The Hague, Netherlands
Royal Danish Ballet School, Copenhaguen, Denmark
Royal Swedish Ballet School, Stockholm, Sweden
San Francisco Ballet School, San Francisco (CA), USA
School for Music and Drama, Dance Department, Tanzakademie, Zurich, Switzerland
School of American Ballet, New York (NY), USA
Scuola di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy
Staatliche Ballett-Akademie, Munich, Germany
The Harid Conservatory, Boca Raton (FL), USA
Vaganova Academy, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Vienna State Opera Ballet School, Vienna, Austria
Descended from the court spectacles of Italy and France, ballet is a theatrical dance form consisting of codified movements and a training system designed to produce specific aesthetic lines. Two defining characteristics, which require years of highly specialized training, are the use of turn-out of the legs from the hip so that the knees and feet point outwards and en pointe through which the ballerina rises onto the tips of her toes. Another more comprehensive definition comes from Louis Horst & Carroll Russell, "a secure and powerful centre of gravity in an upright back from which the brilliant movements of arm and legs give an unreal and superhuman impression."
Looking for an Ballet teacher or school in Nova Scotia? Click here
Looking for more information on Ballet? Check out our links list below.
Ballet Links
Internationally Renowned Ballet Schools
Akademie des Tanzes, Mannheim, Germany
Antwerp Royal Ballet School, Antwerp, Belgium
Australian Ballet School, Victoria, Australia
Canada's National Ballet School, Toronto, Canada
Central School of Ballet, London, Great Britain
Ecole Nationale Superieure de Danse de Marseille, Marseille, France
Ecole Superieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower, Cannes, France
English National Ballet School, London, Great Britain
Hamburg Ballettschule - John Neumeier, Hamburg, Germany
Houston Ballet Ben Stevenson Academy, Houston (TX), USA
Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest, Hungary
John Cranko-Schule, Stuttgart, Germany
National Conservatory Dance School, Lisbon, Portugal
New Zealand School of Dance, Wellington, New Zealand
North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem (NC), USA
Perm State Ballet School, Perm, Russia
Royal Ballet School, London, Great Britain
Royal Conservatory, The Hague, Netherlands
Royal Danish Ballet School, Copenhaguen, Denmark
Royal Swedish Ballet School, Stockholm, Sweden
San Francisco Ballet School, San Francisco (CA), USA
School for Music and Drama, Dance Department, Tanzakademie, Zurich, Switzerland
School of American Ballet, New York (NY), USA
Scuola di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy
Staatliche Ballett-Akademie, Munich, Germany
The Harid Conservatory, Boca Raton (FL), USA
Vaganova Academy, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Vienna State Opera Ballet School, Vienna, Austria