Throwback Thursday and Ballet Blanc
It recently came to my attention that
there are supposed to be seven white
ballets (ballet blanc). I hadn’t heard that number before and so I set out to
research it. Here are the seven I pieced together from various sources:
Ballet of
the Nuns
La
Sylphide
Les
Sylphide
Giselle
La
Bayadere
Swan Lake
Nutcracker
What I have yet to
discover is when these seven were
designated – and who categorized them.
It may simply be a truth that is handed down orally from teacher to student (as
so many things are in ballet), and was never written down.
Here is a definition of
a white ballet by http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095443445:
“A dance in which the women wear white tulle
ballet dresses or romantic tutus, in the style seen in La Sylphide in 1832 and
thereafter immortalized in many romantic lithographs. One of the most famous
examples of ballet blanc is Act II of Giselle.”
Does
anyone out there know who first categorized the seven white ballets?
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Dance History Facoid #132:
“There are reputedly seven ballet blanc (white
ballets).”
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