BALLET OF ALL TIME, «SWAN LAKE»

The dance and the ballet find their cultural expression among the manifestations of art in a localized context with which they identify and invent as part of its trajectory.

When man, since ancient times, felt the need to communicate and expose his moods, the dance; the rhythmic movements are incorporated as fractions of rituals in important events such as births, weddings, deaths and hunting and war events.

Later, Greeks and ancient peoples fixed the dance in most of their sacred and profane ceremonies. The Jews also included it when it was appropriate to hold parties ordered by law or to celebrate some interesting event.

No historical details as to the time of establishment of the dance, perhaps until the arrival of Renaissance that conveys a new attitude towards the body, towards arts and dance from the courts of Italy and France.

It is said that in Florence the first masters of the dance and some treatises, manuals and instructions on it with detailed explanations to carry out the steps and movements due in a type of dance.

Teachers invent steps creating choreographies to dance in courts. It was Catherine de' Medici one of the best patrons of court dance, a dance that was scheduled and required effort, discipline, and trained teachers to dance correctly.

The dances from the court were called 'low dances' due to the weight of the clothes used that impeded the movements of the feet, rather they slid along the floor avoiding jumping; those of the town were named 'high dances' because when wearing light clothes, the neighbors achieved richness of movements, great expression, they could jump, do turns, pirouettes, move freely.

In 1661 the Royal Academy of Dance was founded by Louis XIV and from then on we will place three moments in the dance process, the Renaissance, the Baroque (noting influences from France, Italy, Germany and Spain in their dances) and the ballet. .

Finally, the stage dance is made up of four different types of ballet.

Classical ballet characterized by the use of graceful tips, fluid and precise movements and ethereal qualities. Influence of style Rococó and from the Romanticism.

Neoclassical ballet in he used classical techniques; it breaks with the structure of the steps and requires a technique that gives it support, which stamps a creative character.

Modern Ballet is influenced by classical ballet and modern dance; it has technique, form and content; a greater range of movement is produced in the use of classical technique and maintains an important narrative expression, concepts and innovations of modern dance of the 20th century.

Postmodern Ballet a At the end of the 20th century, there was an uprising against concepts of modern dance, emphasizing the use of improvisation and pure movements over technique, form and content; reliance on narrative elements, emotional expression, and moving phrases is eliminated.

Seen this way, it can be stated that the dance has a language that heralds history and culture and gives the option of creating and breaking racial and classicist barriers harmful to any economic formation -Social. She is closely linked to the mark of colonization and miscegenation in certain peoples and in others to the lived national history itself.

It was already noted that, in the dance form, rhythm and movement combine cultural insights. Its richness as a language communicates through movement the entire physical and cultural dimension of the body as an incalculable testimony of whoever interprets it.

As a manifestation of art, it entails academic preparation to equip whoever performs it with dance techniques, rhythmic movements that provide harmony, aesthetics and coherence to the corresponding genre practiced. 

Many are the exponents of the art of dance and ballet, which undoubtedly sum up centuries of work, history and above all human improvement.

We have chosen a jewel of Imperial Russia in the history of traditional classical ballet, «Swan Lake», with choreography by Julius Reinsinger, presented for the first time at the Bolshoi theater in Moscow on May 4, 1877, and with little public acceptance at the premiere.

It was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, of Russian origin and composer of symphonic music, commissioned the music for this ballet in 1875 at the request of Vladimir Bergichev, director of the Imperial Theaters of Moscow. After this first creation, Piotr records other well-known works such as «The Nutcracker» and «The Sleeping Beauty».