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Filippo Taglioni
Dancer and choreogrpher and father of Maria Taglioni. Considered an early creator of Romantic ballet with La Sylphide which established his daughters preemincence. -
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En Pointe
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Marie Taglioni
Daughter of Filippo Taglioni and was the foremost Romantic ballerina. She was known for her ethereal on-stage presence and her most famous ballet was her main lead in La Sylphide (1832) -
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Auguste Bournonville
A Danish dancer and choreographer associated with the Romantic era and who did a lot of work for the Royal Danish Ballet. Many of his ballets extolled balance and harmony and he was always concerned with human happiness and human behavior and preferred to make like out of dark and ended his ballets happily. -
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Fanny Elssler
Fanny Elssler was a Romantic Ballerina whose dance style was considered pagan and overly sensual, which rivales against Marie Taglioni who was considered a pure, virginal, ethereal dancer. -
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Marius Petipa
Known as the father of Classical ballet, French choreographer Marius Petipa was considered one of the most influential choreographers of ballet. Some of his most well know ballets are The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862), Don Quixote (1869), La Bayadere (1877), The Sleeping Beauty (1890), and The Nutcracker (1892). -
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Romantic Ballet/Cult of the Ballerina
Era of Romantic Ballet, during this time the cult of the ballerina arose. -
Robert le Diable
Premiere of Robert le Diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer. This was the first choreographic triumph of the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Choreographed with Filippo Taglioni and featured Mare Taglioni as the ballerina. -
La Sylphide
A two-act ballet that was choreographed by Filippo Taglioni for his daughter Marie Taglioni. Was a pure Romantic ballet that told the love story between a mortal and spirit and this ballet had united botht the earthy and the fantastical. -
The Revolt in the Harem
Choreographed by Filippo Taglioni and was the first ballet about the emancipation of women. -
Reproduction of La Sylphide
August Bournonville created his own version of La Sylphide which constitutes as one of the few surviving body of works by any choreographer of the Romantic era. -
Carlo Blasis & Royal Academy of Dance
Influential teacher Carlo Blasis was appointed director of the Royal Academy of Dance at La Scala in Milan. Blasis was known for teaching teachers who, in turn, taught other teachers thereby codifying classical ballet. He wrote The Code of Terpischore, Notes Upon Dancing, and other works to express his theories of dance technique and offered advice on finding a good teacher and developing their bodies properly. -
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Pavel Ilyich Tchaikovsky
A Russian composer who wrote scores for Swan Lake (1877, 1895), The Sleeping Beauty (1890), and The Nutcracker (1892), much of his concert music was often choreograhed. -
Giselle
At the height of the Romantic ballet, this ballet was created to show off ballerina Carlotta Grisi. -
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Jules Perrot
Jules Perrot produced his best ballets in London where he worked at Her Majesty's Theatre which briefly rivales The Paris Opera as a dance center. -
Pas de Quatre
This ballet featured four of the greatest ballerinas of the time and was brilliantly choreographed by Jules Perrot. -
Don Quixote
Another ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa. -
Coppelia/The Girl with the Enamel Eyes
The Romantic ballet period's last great ballet, choreographed by Arthur Saint-Leon, husband of Fanny Cerrito. -
La Bayadere
La Bayadere was a ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa presented in St. Petersburg, Russia at the Imperial Bolshoi Kammeny Theater. -
The Sleeping Beauty
This is Petipa's most opulent surviving work that became a masterpiece. This ballet tells the story of Sleeping Beauty entirely through movement and was both visually beautiful and rich in thematic significance. -
Swan Lake (Petipa/Ivanov)
Tchaikovsky's earliest ballet. After his death in 1893, a memorial concert was produced in 1895 in which the 1st and 3rd acts were choreographed by Petipa and the 2nd and 4th by Lev Ivanov.