Art has always been linked with the word passion, emotion, outlet and words related to the aforementioned words. Emotions and their forms of facial and bodily expressions have always been important in dance. Emotions manifest themselves in a variety of mediums one of them is dance. This paper will discuss several emotions and states that people go through and how they stir the imagination, which is integral to Ballet and the other forms of dance. In the last parts of the paper, a brief history will prove how emotions are essential to the world of Ballet.
Joy is the most popular and most well-loved emotion. It is a welcome emotion for everyone, especially those who have gone through. It is associated with blissfulness, light-heartedness and playfulness. When someone is in a joyous state, that person expresses it in fantasy because that person believes that everything can be possibly done. Nothing is unfathomable or unimaginable to that person. The same state energizes the imagination and makes it soar greater heights. The joyous person, with his or her energized imagination, may express himself or herself through movement.
The imagination is also at work when one is experiencing distress and grief. In this state, the persons ability to reason is compromised, depending on the degree the mind is in total chaos. People in this state normally feel frustrated and restless. This frustration and restlessness can released through dance and movement. It can be through dance and movement that the person may achieve peace and order within himself or herself.
Ballet history can prove that emotions play a big role in the development of Ballet. One of the greatest figures in ballet history is Jean Georges Noverre. He is considered as the Father of Modern Ballet because he significantly reinvented ballet in the 18th century by highlighting all of the most expressive elements of the art of dance as he knew them, and casting them afresh into a vital conception of the ballet daction and raised the art of choreography to new heights of expressive possibilities by examining the nature of human experience in relation to theatrical dance itself (Lee 129). Noverre molded his dancers into expressive performers and not merely moving robots who can perform steps. He is one of the major reformers during his time. He lived in a period when European ballet experienced a forceful rebirth to becoming a more expressive art, more human and more linked to the human nature and emotions.
Emotions also played an important role when the Golden Age of Romantic Ballet flourished. Romantic art was friendlier to the middle class and was characterized by a passionate striving to discover meaning in human events it also manifested itself through evocations of mysterious and sensuous elements that readily fit popular trends (p.137). Giselle, a Romantic ballet by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, is a ballet with intense drama about a peasant girl who falls in love with a nobleman who keeps his aristocracy a secret (Lee 154). Giselle finds out about it and kills herself. The nobleman is punished by certain non-human entities but Giselles true and powerful love saves him from death. Such an intense plot requires profound emotions and acting prowess from the dancers. Up to this day, Giselle is still one of the most popular ballets and the lead character Giselle is the most sought-after character. An intensely emotional ballet such as Giselle certainly touches the audiences souls.
Ballet development and emotions are related to each other because dance, like any other art, expresses emotion aroused by external stimuli. The artistic sensibilities of a dancer or choreographer are reflected by his or her emotions.
Joy is the most popular and most well-loved emotion. It is a welcome emotion for everyone, especially those who have gone through. It is associated with blissfulness, light-heartedness and playfulness. When someone is in a joyous state, that person expresses it in fantasy because that person believes that everything can be possibly done. Nothing is unfathomable or unimaginable to that person. The same state energizes the imagination and makes it soar greater heights. The joyous person, with his or her energized imagination, may express himself or herself through movement.
The imagination is also at work when one is experiencing distress and grief. In this state, the persons ability to reason is compromised, depending on the degree the mind is in total chaos. People in this state normally feel frustrated and restless. This frustration and restlessness can released through dance and movement. It can be through dance and movement that the person may achieve peace and order within himself or herself.
Ballet history can prove that emotions play a big role in the development of Ballet. One of the greatest figures in ballet history is Jean Georges Noverre. He is considered as the Father of Modern Ballet because he significantly reinvented ballet in the 18th century by highlighting all of the most expressive elements of the art of dance as he knew them, and casting them afresh into a vital conception of the ballet daction and raised the art of choreography to new heights of expressive possibilities by examining the nature of human experience in relation to theatrical dance itself (Lee 129). Noverre molded his dancers into expressive performers and not merely moving robots who can perform steps. He is one of the major reformers during his time. He lived in a period when European ballet experienced a forceful rebirth to becoming a more expressive art, more human and more linked to the human nature and emotions.
Emotions also played an important role when the Golden Age of Romantic Ballet flourished. Romantic art was friendlier to the middle class and was characterized by a passionate striving to discover meaning in human events it also manifested itself through evocations of mysterious and sensuous elements that readily fit popular trends (p.137). Giselle, a Romantic ballet by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, is a ballet with intense drama about a peasant girl who falls in love with a nobleman who keeps his aristocracy a secret (Lee 154). Giselle finds out about it and kills herself. The nobleman is punished by certain non-human entities but Giselles true and powerful love saves him from death. Such an intense plot requires profound emotions and acting prowess from the dancers. Up to this day, Giselle is still one of the most popular ballets and the lead character Giselle is the most sought-after character. An intensely emotional ballet such as Giselle certainly touches the audiences souls.
Ballet development and emotions are related to each other because dance, like any other art, expresses emotion aroused by external stimuli. The artistic sensibilities of a dancer or choreographer are reflected by his or her emotions.
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