Ballet originated during the 15th century and only later turned into a concert dance form in France and Russia.
I love ballet. I once saw a performance of "Hallelujah" on "So You Think You Can Dance" that made me cry.
I would love to see the choreography and hear the music in a ballet production.
There are times it leaves a person so moved it is hard to speak.
As it is globally influential and has defined techniques used in many cultures, I would love to attend the ballet at least once.
I have been to the "Nutcracker" before, but not a lot of ballet performances. I would love to see more.
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker ( / "Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya" ) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King".
Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. However, the complete "Nutcracker" has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and
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History.
Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread, highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary based on French terminology. It has been globally influential and has defined the foundational techniques used in many other dance genres. Becoming a ballet dancer requires years of training. Ballet