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What is ballet?

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Ballet is a complex mixture of technique and basically a fair bit of coordination and musicality (which is feeling and moving with the music). You have to perform it confidently and it has to fit the mood of the dance and music. It is a very beautiful dance when it is done properly. But much more beautiful a 'Pas de deux en pointe'.

It takes years and years to perfect and you have to be fit and flexible and also very committed.

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Ir's a form of classical dance that's seemingly gymnastic and acrobatic to formal classical music--usually referred to either as "the girliest, most gayest thing there is" or the "most demanding, exhausting, consuming and difficult sport there is." Traditionally done in tights and slippers, ballet seems so impossible, yet so feminine. And it's the one sport totally dominated and just better done by women.

What is ballet, really? It's everything, really. It's a form of exercise, a body sculpting. It's as an athletic sport as football. Only the players all work together to create something together instead of trying to stop the others efforts. It's an out-of-body, ESP spiritual experience. It's an art form. It's a happening. It's an event. It's everything and anything at once. Ballet is even therapeutic because it gets a lot of excess energy, thought and worry off your mind and body and replaces it with a pleasantly released serene feeling.

Like climaxing or releasing stress. Many misconstrue that you need to be rich, posh, snobby, female, intellectual, upper-crust and thin as a wafer to get it. That's just narrow-minded stereotyping idiocy. All ballet really requires is that while you're doing it (every minute you're doing it), you to give everything about yourself every moment.

The sight of the empty dance studio early in the morning... no one is around... it's a little drafty, but a little warm at the same time... a pair of worn, battered, beaten ballet slippers on the hardwood floor... the old, weathered, but still hard and durable barre' on the wall... the dust floating through the air by the sunlight at the window.... it's all so d***ed beautiful, you know. It makes it all worth it.

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Ballet companies mostly use Classical Music, but some ballets use more modern music. My studio has done peices to contemporary and jazz songs before, so the music ballet companies use can vary.

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a ballet dance is a form of dance that requires precision with your feet. learning how to ballet dance is a very hard skill that takes a ton of practice. it requires you to have patience and confidence.

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Ballet Music usually refers to classical music

Ballet Music is the music that ballerinas dance to. It mostly consists of piano but can also include harps, Flute and violin. Ballet is a very strict style of dance that girls often pursue at an early age. Just letting you know That I dance ballet and I am in a very high grade so I think I know alot about these type of questions. The top answer is not from me.

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It's almost always classical, but occaisonaly a modern spin will be added.

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a ballet song that i like to dance is the nutcracker that is what i like

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Classical ballet is usually danced to classical music. Contemporary ballet is danced to variety of music.

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Most music for ballet is created by Jean-Baptiste Lully and John Weaver. This kind of music is most of the time very calm and makes you feel calm inside.

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the piano

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