The ballad probably derives its name from medieval French dance songs or " ballares " ( from which we also get ballet ), as did the alternative rival form that became the French Ballade.

Diana is also a character in the 1876 Léo Delibes ballet Sylvia.

* Theatre on ice, also known as " ballet on ice " in Europe.

and also appeared with Vera-Ellen in the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet in Words and Music ( 1948 ).

Francesco Cilea's 1902 opera Adriana Lecouvreur also includes a Judgment of Paris ballet sequence.

Richardson also appeared as Queen Rosalind of Denmark in the Julia Stiles vehicle The Prince and Me and as the ballet mistress Madame Giry in the film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom Of The Opera ( 2004 ).

Diaghilev also worked with dancer and ballet master Léonide Massine.

Around the turn of the century, however, harmonic and metric devices became either more rigid, or much more unpredictable, and each approach had a liberating effect on rhythm, which also affected ballet.

Until relatively recently, freestyle competitions also included an event called ballet, later renamed " acro-ski ".

He also " plunged " himself into a multitude of interests, including abstract painting, ballet, English and French literature, opera, and horseback riding.

The term libretto is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as Mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or the story line of a ballet.

Some ballet historians also use the word libretto to refer to the 15 – 40 page books which were on sale to 19th century ballet audiences in Paris and contained a very detailed description of the ballet's story, scene by scene.

In 1841, Berlioz wrote recitatives for a production of Weber's Der Freischütz at the Paris Opéra and also orchestrated Weber's Invitation to the Dance to add ballet music to it ( he titled the ballet L ' Invitation à la valse, and the original piano piece has often been mistitled as a result ).

Wuthering Heights has also given rise to many adaptations and inspired works, including films, radio, television dramatisations, a musical by Bernard J. Taylor, a ballet, three operas ( by Bernard Herrmann, Carlisle Floyd, and Frédéric Chaslin ), a role-playing game, and the 1978 chart-topping song by Kate Bush.

He also photographed athletic activities such as baseball, cricket, football, boxing, wrestling, fencing, rowing, discus throwing, and a ballet dancer performing.

It is also the stimulus for the new ballet piece by Kim Brandstrup, ' Invitus Invitam ' which premiered in the Royal Opera House in October 2010.

They also appear in the classical ballet Sylvia.

His most popular works include Le bœuf sur le toit ( a ballet which lent its name to the legendary cabaret frequented by Milhaud and other members of Les Six ), La création du monde ( a ballet for small orchestra with solo saxophone, influenced by jazz ), Scaramouche ( for saxophone and piano, also for two pianos ), and Saudades do Brasil ( dance suite ).

Spain has also played an important role within the history of western classical music, particularly in its early phase from the 15th to the 17th centuries ; ranging from a composer like Tomás Luis de Victoria, the zarzuela of Spanish opera, the ballet of Manuel de Falla, to the classical guitar music of Pepe Romero.

His other violin teacher, Anton Kollmann, who was the ballet répétiteur of the Vienna Court Opera, also wrote excellent testimonials for him.

Strauss also wrote an opera, Ritter Pázmán, and was in the middle of composing a ballet, Aschenbrödel, when he died in 1899.

The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

At the other extreme in character was the half-hour excerpt from the Petipa-Minkus ballet `` Bayaderka '', which opened the evening.

The first ballet dance academy was the Académie Royale de Danse ( Royal Dance Academy ), opened in Paris in 1661.

Shortly thereafter, the first institutionalized ballet troupe, associated with the Academy, was formed ; this troupe began as an all-male ensemble but by 1681 opened to include women as well.

The Britten theatre, which seats 400, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986 and is used for opera, ballet, music and theatre.

Dunham opened a school in New York ( 1945 ) where she taught Katherine Dunham Technique, a blend of African and Caribbean movement ( flexible torso and spine, articulated pelvis and isolation of the limbs and polyrhythmic movement ) integrated with techniques of ballet and modern dance.

Enrico Cecchetti and his wife opened a ballet school in London in 1918, and his pupils included some of the most influential names in British Ballet, many also influencing ballet throughout the world.

The Center, which opened on September 8, 1971, produces and presents theater, dance, ballet, orchestral, chamber, jazz, popular, and folk music, in addition to multi-media performances for all ages.

The Empire Theatre opened on 17 April 1884 as a West End variety theatre on Leicester Square, as well as a ballet venue.

It first opened on September 24, 1892 as " Theater Unter den Linden " with Adolf Ferron's operetta Daphne and Gaul and Haßreiter's ballet Die Welt in Bild und Tanz.

The Tokyo Bunka Kaikan opened in 1961 as a venue for opera and ballet, in celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the city of Edo.

Sports lost some of their appeal during the politically-turbulent late 1960s-1970s, but the annual Swimphony / Landphony water and land ballet competition begun when the pool was opened continued to spark class spirit and inter-class competition into the 1990s.

Encouraged by Speranzeva to focus on modern dance instead of ballet, Dunham opened her first real dance school in 1933.

Based on Nizami Ganjavi's famous poem, Seven Beauties (" Yeddi gözəl ") became the first Azerbaijani ballet and opened a new chapter in the history of classical music of Azerbaijan.

The Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet, which perform at McCaw Hall ( which opened 2003 on the site of the former Seattle Opera House at Seattle Center ), are comparably distinguished, with the Opera being particularly known for its performances of the works of Richard Wagner and the PNB School ( founded in 1974 ) ranking as one of the top three ballet training institutions in the United States.

He also opened a ballet drama school for 1000 people.

In 1929, she opened her own ballet school, where she taught such students as Dame Margot Fonteyn, Dame Alicia Markova, André Eglevsky, Tatiana Riabouchinska and Tamara Toumanova.

She opened the Centre de Danse Classique in 1962 near her home in Cannes, which became one of Europe's leading ballet schools.

The ballet work is on the nose, especially in the opening number by `` The New Ashmolean Marching Society and Students' Conservatory Band '', along with a fiery and sultry Brazilian fantasia later.

* 1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.

Kelly went much further than before in introducing modern ballet into his dance sequences, going so far in the " Day in New York " routine as to substitute four leading ballet specialists for Sinatra, Munshin, Garrett and Miller.

In 1913 — the year of Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Niels Bohr's quantized atom, Ezra Pound's founding of imagism, the Armory Show in New York, and, in Saint Petersburg, the " first futurist opera ," Victory Over the Sun — another Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, working in Paris for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, composed The Rite of Spring for a ballet, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, that depicted human sacrifice.

She received three years of Spanish ballet training and four years of theater at Cristina Rota's New York school.

At 20, she went to live in New York for two years at Christopher and Greenwich to study ballet and English between movies.

* Russian — Fokine, Michel: The Immortal Pierrot ( 1925 ; ballet, premiered in New York City ).

* American — Craton, John: Pierrot and Pierrette a. k. a. Le Mime solitaire ( 2009 ; ballet ); Muller, Jennifer ( head of three-member Works Dance Company, New York ): Pierrot ( 1986 ; music and scenario by Thea Musgrave below under # Western classical | Western classical: Instrumental ); Russillo, Joseph ( works mainly in France ): Pierrot ( 1975 ; ballet ).

He was offered a commission by choreographer Leonid Massine, of the New York Ballet Theatre to design the sets and costumes for his new ballet, Aleko.

Other movies influenced by or making use of Uncle Tom's Cabin include Dimples ( a 1936 Shirley Temple film ), Uncle Tom's Uncle, ( a 1926 Our Gang episode ), its 1932 remake Spanky, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I ( in which a ballet called " Small House of Uncle Thomas " is performed in traditional Siamese style ), and Gangs of New York ( in which Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis's characters attend an imagined wartime adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin ).

Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote a ballet based on the play, that was commissioned by The Empire Music Festival of New York, and danced by José Limón's company.

" A large part of the story is told through song and ballet and includes many of Andersen's most famous stories such as The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Little Mermaid.

Gorey was noted for his fondness for ballet ( for many years, he religiously attended all performances of the New York City Ballet ), fur coats, tennis shoes, and cats, of which he had many.

* The DanceVision Performing Company will premiere a new ballet adaptation of The Snow Queen on December 17 and 18, 2011 at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey.

Comden and Green's first Broadway show was in 1944, with On the Town, a musical about three sailors on leave in New York City that was an expansion of a ballet entitled Fancy Free on which Bernstein had been working with choreographer Jerome Robbins.

In New York in 1916 Monteux refused to conduct Nijinsky's new ballet Till Eulenspiegel as the music was by a German – Strauss, so a conductor had to engaged for those performances.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Marsden's mother, Linda Marsden, is a former fashion model, and his father, Myles Marsden, is a former Premier danseur of the Yugoslav National Ballet and Founder of the first regional ballet company in New England called State Ballet of Rhode Island .< ref >

George Balanchine, born Giorgi Balanchivadze (, ) ( April 30, 1983 ), was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States and the co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet.

By October of that year, Kirstein had brought Balanchine to New York, where he would begin influencing the character, training and techniques of American ballet and dance.