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  1. Thank you for this and the other dance posts.

    Is it possible for the knowledgeable to identify the traditional movements vs. the innovations?

    Except for a few obviously non-balletic movements, I cannot tell.

    This is even more true for the Balanchine “Serenade” you showed us – which I would call “neoclassical”.

    I can sense that there are modern movements, but not knowing the vocabulary of ballet I can’t tell exactly what has been changed.

  2. Ben David:

    Traditional ballet steps all have French names. I could go through that whole ballet slowly and name the conventional steps, in French, one by one. But there would be things I could not describe—including many of the innovative lifts. Choreography is unique in part because of how the steps are strung together, how they fit to the music, the changes of pace and direction, and many many other things. Sometimes a traditional step is exaggerated. Sometimes it’s paired with innovative arms or positions of the upper body or head. Sometimes the leg is turned in instead of out. There are almost infinite variations on the themes.

  3. neo-neocon said:

    Ben David:

    Traditional ballet steps all have French names. I could go through that whole ballet slowly and name the conventional steps, in French, one by one.

    Same goes with fencing. Sword fighting. Moulinets. Molinari, in Italian. It may come across as “sucking up,” but it’s not. Why would I do that? I follow the bloggers I follow for a reason. I remain fascinated by how much your world and my world has in common and I never would have thought so.

    I still have your Georgian ballet book marked.

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