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| Name of Work | Etudes | ||||||
| Production Date | 1948 | ||||||
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US New York, NY City Center Theater |
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| Media Types | Sascha Radetsky and Jared Matthews as principal male dancers., Three principal dancers plus various soloists plus a very large corps de ballet. Xiomara Reyes as prima ballerina | ||||||
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Description
A non-story ballet. A sequence of vignettes, or scenes of various corps members performing increasingly complex ballet exercises, and eventually moving away from the practice barr, and doing freestyle steps, and then complex groupings, and then partnering, and then expressive scenes that go beyond mere classical technique, then freer steps and sequences that indicate the growing confidence of the dancers to let "rip" with their skills. The ballet starts out slow for the first 15 minutes -- with fairly slow deliberate sequences. Then gets more complex, then gets more overlapping and excited, with no spaces between sequences, culminating in a grand finale of orderly but intense dancing. Subject is the progression and process of developing skills (in this case dance skills).
Theme
Hard work results in great achievement in life -- and that results in beauty and excitement in life.<br>
Emotional Sum or Sense-of-life
Thrilling pleasure at beautiful movement and great success at developing the best within you.
Context Information
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non-story ballet
