Famous Female Ballet Dancers

Agnes George de Mille (september 18, 1905- october 7, 1993) she was an american dancer and choreographer who was born in New York.Her first significant work was "Rodeo", she made the choreography of many others like "Bloomer girl"(1944), "Carousel"(1945), "Paint your wagon"(1951) and her last ballet was "The other" which was finished in 1992 nearly before her death.

Alina Cojocaru (May 27, 1881), She complete six months of training in the Royal Ballet School then she was asked to join The Royal Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet and she was also offered a contract to join The Kiev Ballet as a principal so she accepted the kiev.In 2012  she become the first ballerina to receive an Prix Benois de la danse twice, the first time with cinderella and this time with Hamburg Ballet. 

Flexibility

Some people may think being a ballerina its something easy but its no, its something you have to work for and even sometimes manage the pain specially for flexibility.

In every ballet video or presentation we see how dancers put their legs up and how they bend their backs and even if you don't notice it they have flexibility in their arms and shoulders. While we see them dancing it looks very delicate and easy but behind that beauty of the movement there are lots of hours of training and stretching, these movements are not something you can accomplish by stretching for a week sometimes people take months to do it and its all worth it. 

Ballet its what ballerinas love and for some its their life and what they depend on so all this pain its just and add to their dream, in my case its just a way to keep doing it, to keep chasing my dream, but still it hurts and its not easy but we love it. 

Russian Ballet

Russia has its own form of ballet, it practices the "Vaganova method". This style is known for focusing on the artist precision and flexibility rather than focusing on the technique and elegance such as in other styles of ballet. The most famous ballet companies representing this unique style are the Mariinsky Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet. These two companies tour the world and are well known and respected for the excellency. Some of the most notable dancers of the Vaganova method are Nina Ananiashvili, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Galina Mezentseva and others.

Paris Opera Ballet

The Paris Opera Ballet its the oldest company of ballet in the world, it was founded in 1669 as the Academy of Opera and the dance didn't turn into an important part of this until 1673. It had its origins in the court of Louis XIV of France.
They perform in the Palais Garnier where they have been since 1875, they still are an extremely recognized company which have amazing dancers and costumes, and provides incredible presentation to their public.
Their dancers have ranks and they go from highest to lowest: étoiles, premiers danseur, sujets, corypheés and quadrilles.





In this video we see how good are  their dancers, costumes, music, decorations and everything so we can realize how they get to be a famous company.

Ballet Clothes

Ballet clothes have evolution in a big way since the beginning until now.

When the first ballet was created woman's wore dresses with long skirts and the pointe shoes didn't exist so they couldn't be on their points to make turns.

After a long time skirts got shorter and pointe shoes were invented by Anna Pavlova because she was vulnerable to injuries while dancing on pointes, besides she had others foot troubles.

In the actuality skirts are even shorter in some cases, pinte shoes are the same and at the time of representing a character the costumes are more creative and sometimes more colorful. 

It does not matter how long the skirt is or how colorful it is because in my opinion ballet costumes are extremely beautiful and at the same time sophisticated.

How dancers see ballet

I´m going to show a video of Rebecca Krohn a ballet soloist of New York City. In this video she talk about how since she started she wanted to be a good and famous and dancer, she also talks about the movements she have to do and how she have to make them look soft and flexible but at the same time strong. How while we appreciate ballet we can also be "going through a museum of modern art" when in every scene there are little details of past times.
Whe can see the passion of the dancer and how she said that its not only moving but also putting feeling to dance, so once again I say ballet its a way of expressing feeling and to let go of the world for some time.

Most recognized ballet

Romeo and Juliet, they fall in an impossible love because their families are in a constant fight, Frier Laurence secretly marriage them but this doesn't end their troubles,Romeo kill one of her cousins in a fight so he is exiled. Desperate Juliet ask him for help, so he makes a plan. Juliet takes a poison that will put her to sleep so her family and everyone would thing she is dead,Frier would tell Romeo and he would come for her and live happily ever after. But things went wrong.
The letter Frier send to Romeo did not get in time so when he hears she's dead he runs to see her, when he gets there she is still sleeping so he lay down with her and he drinks a poison to kill himself, some minutes later Juliet wakes up and see he's dead so she stabs herself.



Sleeping Beauty, when Aurora is a baby the Carbosse curses her. The curse state that when she turned 18 she would prick her finger and die, the curse turns weaker because of her Lilac fairy and know instead of dying she would fall into a deep sleeping for 100 years and be awakened by a handsome prince.
During her 16th birthday a mysterious guest give her a present, a lovely spindle and she prick her finger and falls sleep. Years later a prince is led to the castle where she is sleeping, where he battles the Carbosse and ten kiss her so she wakes up and then they get married in a beautiful ceremony.
Swan lake, when he was hunting prince Siegfried sees an amazing swam, when he's going to shoot the swan turns into a beautiful woman named Odette, she tells the prince she is under a spell ann during the day she must be a swam and in the night se can be a human, this spell can only be broken if a virgin prince offer her eternal fidelity to her.He happens to be a virgin prince and she tell him that if he refuses she must stay as a swam forever. He immediately falls in love with her, but because of a spell he proposes to another woman in a party thinking that is Odette.
Odette feels devastated so she kills herself and throws into the lake, the prince feels extremely sorry so he throws himself into the lake with her. In a beautiful moment they are turned into lovers in the afterlife.