Russian ballet and its place in Russian artistic culture of the second half of the nineteenth century: the age of Petipa

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Russian artistic life during the second half of the nineteenth century is usually described as a movement of realism, and realism as applied to ballet means an attempt to reflect man's emotional world. Realistic art of this period sought not only to investigate reality but also to depict an ideal of beauty, and ballet was an example of this striving for an ideal. The world of ballet was one of beauty and harmony. The geometric, symmetrical beauty of Petipa's and Ivanov's choreography gave form to these ideals.

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'Ghost Town' revisited: a memoir of producing an American ballet for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

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This article provides an account of the production of the first all-American production of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's 'Ghost Town' at the Metropolitan Opera in 1939, preformed during the ballet company's second season in the United States. The American theme of the ballet was intended to appeal to an American audience, and had been attempted before by the ballet, but had not been created by an all-American assemble before, as told by its choreographer Marc Platt.

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Getting started in dance, 1946-1953, a memoir: Wendy Hilton, with Susan Bindig

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The author relates his experience of how he helped Wendy Hilton, an early dance specialist in research and writing about her life story before she died of cancer in 2002.

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