Classical Music used for Dancing

VEGANGELICA · 04-26-2011, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

I love how there is so much beautiful music to accompany dance numbers. I should know a bunch off the top of my head seeing as I used to take ballet and other dance lessons. I'll get back with my selections tomorrow!

That would be great, Burning Down, because I haven't seen many ballets...mostly just the same one over and over!

I'd like to be familiar with more ballets than *just* The Nutcracker, great as it is.

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

I was introduce to Ravel by an unlikely source - The Ventures. It was featured on their Joy album which featured instrumental rock versions of art music, it was probably the first Classic Rock album to be released j/k

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Ravel's Pavanne - The Ventures

There were two youtube videos that featured Pavane pour une infante défunte one was still-pic of the painting Lake George, by John Frederick Kensett and this one. I thought you might like this video because it fits in well with your topic.

The Ventures' song was fun!

And the video *does* fit in perfectly with my topic. Thank you, Neapolitan, for sharing it. The dancing definitely makes the swimming, amorphous music more memorable for me as the dancer/actress, Patricia Blair, moves from nature to the city and finally to the studio in this modern ballet piece that I suspect was choreographed just for her, since the choreographer was Martin Vincent Blair (who I think was her husband). Patricia Blair is still alive. She's 80 now!