Today most guitarists undergo rigorous professional training and often can read and play music in other styles: many dancers take courses in ballet and contemporary dance as well as flamenco.

Generally speaking, he tended to use tap and other popular dance idioms to express joy and exuberance – as in the title song from Singin ' in the Rain or " I Got Rhythm " from An American in Paris, whereas pensive or romantic feelings were more often expressed via ballet or modern dance, as in " Heather on the Hill " from Brigadoon or " Our Love Is Here to Stay " from An American in Paris.

His choreographer Michel Fokine often adapted the music for ballet.

In the creation of an opera or ballet, a scenario is often developed initially to indicate how the original source, if any, is to be adapted and to summarize the aspects of character, staging, plot, etc.

In the 1970s, top Soviet dancers began to develop a more theatrical style of ice dancing incorporating elements of ballet and often based on narrative program themes.

The dance is performed high on the toes, and is often considered the " ballet of Irish dance " because of its graceful movements that seem to slip the performers across the floor.

It is best known in the form of late Romantic ballet or Ballet Blanc, which preoccupies itself with the female dancer to the exclusion of almost all else, focusing on pointe work, flowing, precise acrobatic movements, and often presenting the dancers in the conventional short white French tutu.

George Balanchine is often considered to have been the first pioneer of contemporary ballet through the development of neoclassical ballet.

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 ).

They are often worn together with ballet skirts on top and tights or sometimes bike shorts as underwear.

Between 1950 and 1970, leotards remained as such in appearance until a style change in the 1970s, with more colorful leotards appearing on the scene, most often in ballet and exercise.

Spandex garments are often worn by swimmers, ballet dancers, wrestlers, rowers, cyclists, contortionists and circus performers, and spandex fetishists may incorporate fantasies about these activities into their fetish.

Acrobatics is most often associated with activities that make extensive use of gymnastic elements, such as acro dance, circus, and gymnastics, but many other athletic activities — such as ballet and diving — may also employ acrobatics.

He often created large-scale works there, from American themes and Broadway, such as Stars and Stripes for the premiere performance, to drawing from European traditions and music, such as his 1977 Vienna Waltzes, a lavishly designed one-hour ballet choreographed to music by Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehár, and Richard Strauss.

On the other hand, many of Wolf's attempts to catch Hare are often characterized by uncanny abilities on his part ( including figure skating, ballet and waltzing ) which demonstrate his more refined side.

It took the form of musical theatre parody in which a well-known opera, play or ballet was adapted into a broad comic play, usually a musical play, often risqué in style, mocking the theatrical and musical conventions and styles of the original work, and quoting or pastiching text or music from the original work.

* Spellings of loanwords often adhere to, or are influenced by, the orthography of the source language ( as with the English words ballet and fajita, from French and Spanish respectively, and with the Thai word เบ ี ยร ์ " beer ", which includes a letter for the final consonant " r " which appears in the English word it was borrowed from, even though this letter is not pronounced ).

It is usually performed on stage as part of a ballet work which often includes mime, acting, story-telling, and is set to music.

In ballet it is used to describe quick, even movements often done on pointe, the movement gives the look of gliding

A Grand pas usually consists of the Entreé, the Grand adage, occasionally a dance for the corps de ballet ( often referred to as the Ballabile ), optional variations for the demi-soloists, variations for the lead Ballerina and / or Danseur, and a final coda ( sometimes referred to as a Coda générale or Grand coda ) which serves to bring the whole piece to a grand conclusion.

In ballet, the term pas often refers to a combination of steps which make up a dance ( typically, in dance forms such as jazz, hip-hop, tap, etc., this is called a routine ).

Meaning four, it is often used to indicate the number of something in ballet, such as entrechat-quatre and pas de quatre.

Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (; born January 27, 1948 ), nicknamed " Misha ", is a Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers in history.

He described the piece as a " rhapsodic ballet " because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works.

The ballet writer Cyril Johnson described that " her bourrées were like a string of pearls ".

In 1948, Vaganova authored a book titled " The Foundation For Dance " ( more commonly known as " Basic Principles of Russian Classical Dance "), although the dance technique described in it had been famous within the ballet world for over three decades.

Even during the composer's lifetime, contemporary commentators described this ballet as his masterpiece for orchestra.

The wolf, described as " not a ballet fan ", grabs the duck again before being forced to drop him by the hunters.

The story is used as the scenario of the orchestral work Horace Victorieux by Arthur Honegger, composed in 1920 and described as a ' mimed symphony ' ( symphonie mimée d ' après Tite-Live ) though it was originally conceived as a ballet.

It may also be described by other terms such as bullet ballet, gun kata, or gymnastic gunplay.

Farrell described learning choreography from Balanchine as a collaborative process, saying, " When Mr. B was working on a ballet, something would just spill out of his body ; he could rarely duplicate it, so I tried to see precisely what he wanted the first time.

Parker and her younger brother Henry were raised on a commune in Pitt Meadows, B. C., which she described as " a hippie farm ", and she began acting after 13 years at ballet school.

King was often described as a Renaissance man who was a voracious reader, loved to watch the ballet and opera in his spare time, and study Russian history.

" His classical works included a trumpet concerto, described by The Times as " buoyant " and " Gershwinesque "; a trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon ; Carte Blanche, a ballet for Sadler's Wells from which an orchestral suite of " sophisticated high spirits " was performed at the Proms ; a septet for wind and harp a concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn and orchestra ; and a partita for strings, which was warmly praised.

In ballet, the term pose is used to describe stationary dance positions ; the most important are referred to as " First position " through to " Fifth position "-these are described in the glossary of ballet terms.

Such a style in many ways harked back to the time of the romantic ballet and the great ballerinas of old.

Besides writing scores for movies, he continued to compose other music, including music for the ballet and six symphonies ; his later works were in a more romantic style and influenced by Prokofiev and Shostakovich, as well as American music including jazz.

The Russian ballet patriarch Fyodor Lopukhov has called Swan Lake a " national ballet " because of its swans, who originate from Russian lyrically romantic sources, while many of the movements of the corps de ballet originated from Slavonic ring-dances.

In ballet, the terms ‘ classical ’ and ‘ romantic ’ are chronologically reversed from musical usage.

The audience for ballet generally prefers romantic music, so new ballets are confected by a marriage of old works with new choreography.

After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, the Opera was somewhat isolated, but still maintained a comprehensive repertoire that featured the classic and romantic period together with contemporary ballet and operas.

Although this incident cannot be conveniently dove-tailed into known dates of his career, in 1846 a famous romantic ballet about this story titled Catarina was produced in London by the choreographer Jules Perrot and composer Cesare Pugni ).

Marie Taglioni was one of the most celebrated ballerinas of the romantic ballet, which was cultivated primarily at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, and at the Théâtre de l ' Académie Royale de Musique of the Paris Opera Ballet.

As a prolific creator of music, both written and improvised, his compositions and arrangements ( in the hundreds ) embrace jazz, jazz / rock / fusion, romantic orchestral suites, symphonic works and a ballet.

The emphasis on turned out legs, light costumes, female dancers and long dance sequences ( all first seen in L ' Europe galante ( 1697 )) with light, flexible footwear was a turning point in ballet practice that lead to Pre romantic ballet era.

The ballet's literary source is Le Roman de la Momie by Théophile Gautier, the exponent of literary exoticism which offered all sorts of romantic expedients: the passionate love story of the great priest's daughter Tahoser and the Pharaoh set in a Biblical Egypt which, however, disappeared in the ballet, and the Gothic taste for gloomy corridors and dark tombs.

Sidney-Fryer is also a prolific historian of 19th century ballet, and is an expert on the ballet theatre of the romantic era.

From the early 1830s until the late 1840s, Her Majesty's Theatre played host to the heyday of the era of the romantic ballet, in which the ballet company, known as the Ballet of Her Majesty's Theatre, was the most renowned troupe in Europe aside from the Ballet du Théâtre de l ' Académie Royale de Musique.

Other ballet masters created works for the ballet of Her Majesty's Theatre throughout the period of the romantic ballet, most notably Paul Taglioni ( son of Filippo Taglioni ), who staged ballets including Coralia, ou Le Chevalier inconstant ( 1847 ) and Electra ( 1849, the first production of a ballet to make use of electric lighting ).