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04-26-2011, 10:39 PM | #1 (permalink) | ||
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Classical Music used for Dancing
What classical music pieces are made especially memorable for you because of the dances (ballet, ice skating routines, or others) choreographed with them in mind?
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Three of my favorites: Ravel - "Bolero" - ice skating routine by Torvill & Dean that won them the 1984 Olympics Ice Dance Gold Medal. I remember watching this performance and feeling very excited by it. The routine was beloved by almost everyone I knew at the time! This music/dance combination helped inspire me to get involved in modern dance, which I enjoyed for 12 years. Interestingly, the French composer, Maurice Ravel, felt "Bolero" (1928) was "trivial and once described [it] as 'a piece for orchestra without music.' " Maurice Ravel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tchaikowsky - Nutcracker Ballet - "Dance of the Snowflakes" and "Sugar Plum Fairy." I never tire of watching this ballet with its beautiful music...and I must have seen it at least 8 times.
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04-26-2011, 10:57 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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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!
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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.
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.
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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!
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04-27-2011, 03:38 AM | #5 (permalink) |
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Manuel de Falla: El amor brujo ("Love, the Magician"). First composed as a symphonic suite, and then as a ballet too. Two of its best-known movements are #8 (Ritual Fire Dance) and #10 (Song of the Will-o'-the-Wisp). This video is from a film based on the ballet:
But, of course, you can also stare at a bonfire, and you'll see how fire dances in time to the music.
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I read the plot of the story, and this dance makes perfect sense now that I know the story. I think this clip ends with Lucia dancing with the ghost of Jose to exorcise him from the earth so that he stops haunting his ex-wife whom he married in an arranged marriage while his heart was really with Lucia. This ballet makes "The Nutcracker" romance between a pre-adolescent girl and a...nutcracker...seem rather bland. :/ Duce, what YouTube video of "Swan Lake" shows your favorite section?
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04-27-2011, 11:52 AM | #8 (permalink) |
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I love On the Beautiful Blue Danube (An Der Schöen Blauen Donau) by Johann Strauss II.
and here's a fun Simpsons take on that piece: I also like Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, in particular the Neapolitan Dance: When I was a kid, we did a ballet dance routine to Léo Delibes' Suite from Sylvia: Pizzicato. You may know this piece from the movie Babe, when Babe was fooling around with the paint cans and the yarn. And finally, for some 20th century ballet: Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Here's some of it (well the first part!) |
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I didn't know Léo Delibes' Suite from Sylvia: Pizzicato was used in the movie Babe, when Babe was fooling around with the paint cans and the yarn. Quote:
My only complaint with the choreography is that there is an awful lot of arm/wing flapping! I know they're swans and all, but still...when you've seen 10 flaps, 1000 gets a little tiring.
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