Watching A Romantic Ballet

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I picked to watch the second posted video of “Giselle”. I really enjoyed watching this romantic ballet. Though out watching this whole ballet piece, I saw a lot of elements that exemplified romanticism as well as the romantic period of ballet. For example from what I have learned from our readings as well as my own research on romanticism is that the main focus of romanticism is imagination, nature, symbolism, myth, emotion, individualism and fantasy. All of these elements are found in Gisselle. The imagination as well as emotion and fantasy aspect of this romantic ballet I think is found in many ways. For example, when the village girl commits suicide after feeling like her heart got broken she comes back into stage as an angle that to me appeared to be dressed as a bride. I believe this part along with many other parts allows the …show more content…

The artistic aspect of this dance also helped create this whole image in our heads. The scenery was dull, as well as the dancer’s attire which made us imagine that this was taking place a long time ago. As well as the lighting. The artistic element I believed to have been very precise when it comes to romanticism as well as the romantic period of ballet. Romantic ballet from what I have learned consist of elusiveness, tenderness, delicacy and softness. I saw all these aspect in the ballet right from the get go when the village girl meets duke. Right away when they first meet they appear to be elusive to the audience because of the long gazes that are exchanged. As the ballet progresses they show the audience a sense of tenderness in their dancing, it appears soft and soothing. I think this ballet greatly showed the type of popular love stories that were popular in that time because of the mix of social classes. The powerful duke set his eyes on a common village girl then after disguising himself as a peasant he finds himself falling in love with the

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