Dance On Toes: Ballet Dancing

Ballet dance is a graceful dance form, which is more like a representation of a story through beautiful dance moves. It expresses a mood of the story in a way of soulful movements incorporated with very unnatural movements of the body wrapped up nicely that looks pleasing to the eyes. When you imagine a girl standing on her toes and stretching her hands up in the sky, it looks more like a bird flying and floating; well, it is the way as ballet dancing is done.

History - It has started in 1400s when royalties get entertained by watching performances in Italy and France Palaces. During the 1800s, fairies, spirits, and other supernatural beings were the popular ballet subjects. But then some other subjects were added and thus we get a transformed ballet nowadays. Despite the subject, the dancing techniques are also very different, mostly includes floating and standing on toes. To suggest floating and flying one has to dance on their toes.

Toe dance is one of the elegant dance forms nowadays. In the 1900s, choreographers tried mixing it with classical music that undeniably came up as a beautiful form. The term ballet and ball as in masked ball come from Italy. Ballet traces its development and origin from Italy renaissance more like an entertainment to the court.

After its development in Italy, ballet dancing has spread to Europe and France. The first official Ballet Dance was Le Ballet Comique de la Reine (The Comic ballet of the queen)

Things to Remember - Music toned dance is the only way, which reflects the essence of ballet dance. It helps you in remembering the steps and putting you in a creative environment. Ballet Dance is all about flexibility, it is advised to stretch, and exercise is the perfect trick to staying tuned. It is essential to relax your muscles after the workout and that can be fruitful if done by Epsom salt bath. When it comes about perfection, then you are free to make mistakes and use different steps during practice but mentors should always be aware of your creativity. The mirror is often used to check out the form rather than focusing on accentuate of the body. This dance no doubt takes a lot to result in perfection, but never push your turnout. Be patient, practice, but with the time, to keep yourself carrying on. Also, always stay hydrated.

Styles - Romantic ballet is representing emotion as the source of aesthetic experience. During 1900s young artists, writers, poets, and dancers were with a feeling of expressing their individual way, made nature as their inspiration. In the tough time of people in Italy, romantic vision was partly a plea to return a natural life and partly escapism. Classical ballet is basically performed as traditional technique and vocabulary. Classical ballet is based on traditional ballet technique and vocabulary. Neoclassical ballet is a style that is slightly different from the classical style in its use of abstract; otherwise, it is rooted from classical style. Contemporary Ballet Dance represents the mixture of other dance styles to ballet style. Many of times it takes a wide variety of aesthetics clearly showcase, it has evolved from classical ballet. More on The Dance WorX