The Impact of the Ballets Russes on the Style and Acceptance of Ballet in America Introduction The Ballets Russes triumphantly entered the history of ballet. Although Diaghilevs The Ballets Russes was a subject of much controversy, its great impact on the history of ballet in general and the history of American ballet is difficult to underestimate. From the very beginning of ballet the viewer could enjoy ballet scenes only as a part of plays called Extravaganza. They were made in a form of sumptuously created musical shows. Opera theaters started to invite ballet dancers to amuse the audience. It was a beginning of ballet schools and small ballet studios. Russian artists, such as Balanchin, Adolph Bolm, Michael Mordkin and others, who worked in Diaghilevs The Ballets Russes and Anna Pavlovas ballet studio started to open their own ballet studios in America.
Such famous names like George Balanchine, Alexandra Danilova, Michel Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, Serge Lifar, Alicia Markova, Leonide Massine, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Tamara Toumanova are strongly associated with The Ballets Russes. Among the explanations of Russian ballet phenomenon arts critic list great vitality of The Ballets Russes, innovative choreographic techniques of Fokine, mastery of Diaghilevs shows (Parsons n.p.), and the exotic character of Russian ballet schools. The inheritance of The Ballets Russes is great. Their compositions vary in genre: from narrative ballets such as Orpheus to choreographic interpretations of music without a certain subject (Four Temperaments).
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The essence of their ballets lays in merging of music and choreography. Their conception of all-sufficient dance that do not require a literary subject, decorations and costumes became an expression of modern understanding of romanticism in American ballet. The aim of this paper is to explore the impact of The Ballets Russes on the style and acceptance of ballet in America by the example of Diaghilev, Fokine and Balanchins ballet style. The paper will dwell on choreographic details of The Ballet Russes that marked out Russian ballet style from the circle of their contemporaries and became the cause of their breath-taking triumph. References: Parsons, Tom.
Who was Diaghilev? From Ballet FAQ. Retrieved November 1, 2006. http://www.cmi.univ-mrs.fr/~esouche/danse/dance1.h tml.
