Neoclassical ballet
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Neoclassical ballet is the style of 20th century classical ballet exemplified by the works of George Balanchine. It draws on the advanced technique of 19th century Russian Imperial dance, but strips it of its detailed narrative and heavy theatrical setting. What is left is the dance itself, sophisticated but sleekly modern, retaining the pointe shoe aesthetic, but eschewing the well upholstered drama and mime of the full length story ballet.
Tim Scholl, author of From Petipa to Balanchine, considers George Balanchine's Apollo in 1928 to be the first neoclassical ballet. Apollo represented a return to form in response to Sergei Diaghilev's abstract ballets.[citation needed]
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Although much of Balanchine's work epitomized the genre, some choreographers like the British Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan were also great neoclassical choreographers.
- George Balanchine
- Serge Lifar
- Les Créatures de Prométhée 1929
- Le Spectre de la rose (personal version) 1931
- L'Après-midi d'un faune (personal version) 1935
- Icare 1935
- Istar 1941
- Suite en Blanc 1943
- Frederick Ashton
- Symphonic Variations 1946bullshit
- Cinderella 1948
- Romeo and Juliet 1956
- La Fille Mal Gardee 1960
- The Dream 1964
- Roland Petit
- Le jeune homme et la mort 1946
- Carmen 1949
- Notre-Dame de Paris 1965
- Proust, ou Les intermittences du coeur 1974
- Clavigo 1999
- Kenneth MacMillan
- Romeo and Juliet 1955
- Anastasia 1967
- Manon 1974
- Jerome Robbins
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