Talk about the answers to these questions. 1. what did olga like in the nutcracker ballet? find three things. 2. which dancers do you think mathew lliked best? why? 3. which dance do you think sounds the most interesting? why?

At the beginning of a unified single action or mood dance scene, an episode in musical performance, the opera. Borrowed from Italy, France blooms court ballet as a magnificent grand spectacle. Beginning ballet era in France and around the world to be considered October 15, 1581. The first ballet was called "Queen of Comedy Ballet" (or "Tsertseya"), put the Italian Baltazarini. The musical basis of the first ballets were folk and court dances, entrance to the old suite. In the second half of the XVII century, new theatrical genres such as comedy-ballet, opera, ballet, in which a large place is given to the ballet music, and attempts to dramatize it. But a separate kind of stage art ballet is only in the second half of the XVIII century, thanks to the reforms made French choreographer Jean Georges Noverre. Based on the aesthetics of the French Enlightenment, he created performances in which the content is revealed in a dramatic expressive images.
[Edit] Further development of ballet

[Edit] Russian Ballet
Main article: Ballet in Russia

Ballerinas in St. Petersburg.
In Russia, the first ballet was held February 8, 1673 at the court of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in the village of Transfiguration. The national identity of the Russian ballet began to form in the early XIX century, thanks to the French ballet master Charles-Louis Didelot. Didelot strengthens the role of the corps de ballet, the relationship of dance and pantomime, according to the priority of women's dance. Revolutionized the ballet music produced by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who made it a continuous symphonic development and deep imaginative content, dramatic expressiveness. Music of his ballet "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty", "Nutcracker" has found along with the opportunity to reveal the inner symphony during the operation, to put the characters in their interaction, development, poverty. The beginning of the XX century was marked by innovative search, the desire to overcome the stereotypes, conventions of academic ballet XIX century ...
[Edit] Modern Dance
Modern dance - the direction of the dance art, which appeared at the beginning of XX century as a result of avoiding the strict regulations of the ballet, in favor of freedom of creative choreographers.
From ballet repelled free dance, the founders of the interest is not so much a new technique or dance choreography, dance as much as particular philosophy that can change lives. This emerged at the beginning of XX century the movement (the ancestor of plastic ballet is Isadora Duncan) served as the source of many of the trends in contemporary dance and gave impetus to the reform of the ballet