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Vivaldi's 'Concerto No. 4 in F minor' ('Winter') will always remind me of skater Surya Bonaly because it was commonly her music of choice on the ice. Here she is performing her illegal specialty after a fall at the 1998 Olympics -- a one-skate backflip.

CateMonster

^ Hooray for Surya Bonalay!

I love love love Romeo and Juliet's Pas de deux. The music and dancing is so wonderful together.

VEGANGELICA

I love the music for "Dance of the The Knights" from Prokofiev's ballet, Romeo and Juliet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_a...iet_(Prokofiev). I first heard the song in some car commercial and didn't realize until recently that it is part of a ballet:

Prokofiev - "Dance of the Knights" (or Montagues and Capulets) from his ballet, Romeo and Juliet
I like the music's somber, destructive power contrasting with the delicate, romantic, hopeful interludes. An especially nice moment in the ballet (shown below) is when Romeo and Juliet come face to face (at 5:20) and the somber, martial theme re-emerges, foreshadowing the devastation that is to come in their lives:



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Il Duce in another thread asked about Bartok's music for his ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin The Miraculous Mandarin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This made me curious about it (especially after seeing a link that most definitely was *not* the download of the music ) and so I found the following video showing excerpts of the ballet:

Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin (ballet)
The dancing is pleasantly contemporary and fresh, and the music chaotic and intense, matching the far-fetched plot: three tramps force a girl to dance to lure men close enough so that the tramps can steal from them, which leads to the tramps violently murdering the final gentleman, a wealthy Chinese man, who longs for the girl and eventually dies in her arms. :/

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In my recent explorations of classical music, this has been one of the songs I've gotten into the most. I had never seen the accompanying dance before. Is it wrong that up until this moment the song always conjured up very vivid images of Darth Vader for me?

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VEGANGELICA

Not wrong at all! Prokofiev's "Dance of the Knights" for me still conjures up images of giant swinging balls because they were in the car commercial that first introduced me to the song. Better Darth Vader than giant swinging balls!

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Howard the Duck

^^yeah, it's a story worthy of a movie on its own

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swamp.ProAudio

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music.

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Danny88

Tchaikovsky's swan lake.

VEGANGELICA

Mikhail Baryshnikov dancing an excerpt from the ballet, Le Jeune Homme et La Mort, set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach adapted from his "Passacaglia in C Minor"
during the opening titles of the movie "White Nights."

This excerpt from the ballet choreographed by Roland Petit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_jeune_homme_et_la_mort) is melodramatic but memorable. Without the dancing, I would pay the music little heed because it swims on without much that I'd note about it except for its ominous, somber tone. Yet paired with Baryshnikov's spastic, rapid, and amazingly powerful dancing, a mix of ballet and modern, the music gains life.

Moral of story: when a woman in a yellow dress belittles, taunts, and demeans you after playing with your affections, then tells you to hang yourself...don't.


Opening ballet from "White Nights" by Mikhail Baryshnikov - YouTube

^ Moral #2: Don't smoke!!! See what cigarettes will do to you? It isn't pretty.

Here's another dancer, Rudolf Noureev, performing the ballet, "Le Jeune Homme et La Mord," in case you can't get enough:

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