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Moulin Rouge® - the Ballet 19 20 SEASON FEB 26 - MAR 1 FEB 26 - Moulin Rouge® - The Ballet Chenxin Liu and RWB Company, Photo by Michelle Blais CANADA’S ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET STUDY 380 GRAHAM AVE. | WINNIPEG, MANITOBA | R3C 4K2 T 204.956.2792 W RWB.ORG @RWBALLET GUIDEMOULIN ROUGE® - THE BALLET | 1 STUDY GUIDE About Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet Did you know … ? The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School’s Recreational Division offers classes in jazz, modern, hip hop, tap, musical theatre, and creative movement as well as clas- sical ballet. If you were to enroll in our Recreational Division, which dance style would you try first? Do you live in Altona, Eriksdale, Gimli, or St. Malo? The RWB School is very proud to offer Satellite Program classes in these communities. Would you like to be a professional dancer some day? Everyone is welcome to audition for the Professional Division! Auditioners – you are not required to have taken a single dance class before. Auditions are held every year in Winnipeg and accross North America. Visit us online for class descriptions, audition information, and more. rwb.org/school. Royal Winnipeg Ballet Company, Photo courtesy of RWB Archives RWB of courtesy Photo Company, Ballet Winnipeg Royal Founded in 1939, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet holds the In addition to the Company, the RWB is home to the double distinction of being Canada’s premier ballet RWB School. The RWB School consists of both a company and one of the oldest ballet companies Professional Division which trains young artists for a in North America. Under the artistic direction of professional career in dance, and a Recreational Division André Lewis, versatility, technical excellence, and a that provides classes to over 1,500 students weekly. captivating style are the trademarks of the RWB which have garnered critical and audience acclaim. RWB’s superlative standards keep the Company in demand across the world. MOULIN ROUGE® - THE BALLET | 1 STUDY GUIDE Preparing to See the Ballet What to watch for: • Watch the athleticism of the dancers: their balance, fluidity, and strength. Look This booklet is designed for how their costumes are designed to allow and highlight their movements. to enhance the experi- • Sometimes choreography tells a story through arm movements, much like ence of attending the sign language does. What sorts of ‘signs’ do you see that help tell the story? RWB’s performance of • Look at the distance between dancers on stage at certain points in the Moulin Rouge® - The Ballet, dance. Do they seem close or distant? Does it seem like their characters choreographed by Jorden are working together or creating opposition to each other? Morris. The activities and information included are • Look at the costumes. What information do they convey about the organized to help students characters? prepare, understand, enjoy, and respond to What to listen for: their experience with • As the music begins, listen for the mood of the piece. Think about what the performance. sorts of movements might go along with this mood. When the dancers enter, think about how their movements match (or contrast) what you Balletomane’s Guide imagined. Are the dancers moving to the music in an obvious way or in A balletomane is a fan of the a way that juxtaposes the score? ballet, and the secret to being • How would you describe this music in words? What clues in the music do one is that there is no secret at you think the choreographer picked up on when designing this dance? all! Ballet tells stories on stage through movement and with music. People love ballet for Like all live performances, each ballet performance only all sorts of reasons, from the happens once. It is a combination of the performers on admiration of the dancers’ skill, to the fantasy of the world created stage and the audiences in front of them that make up each on stage, to the thrill of seeing a unique performance. story told through dance. For this reason, it is in the audience’s best interest to be visibly and audibly After the attentive and appreciative – the better the audience, the better the performance on stage will be. performance: Process and respond to the per- • During the performance: Enjoy the ballet! As part of the audience, formance by engaging in class your attendance is as essential to the ballet performance as the dancers discussions or writing a letter to themselves. It is very important to arrive on time or even early for the the RWB. We love to get feed- performance in order to allow enough time to settle in and focus on the show. back from our student groups. • Concentration: Always sit still and watch in a quiet, concentrated way. Write to: This supports the dancers so that they can do their best work on stage. Royal Winnipeg Ballet • Quiet: Auditoriums are designed to carry sound so that the performers can 380 Graham Avenue be heard, which also means that any sound in the audience can be heard WPG, MB, R3C 4K2 by dancers and other audience members. Checking your phone disrupts E [email protected] the performance for everyone, so always ensure that phones and other facebook.com/rwballet electronic devices are turned off during the performance. twitter.com/rwballet • Respect: By watching quietly and attentively you show respect for the dancers. The dancers show respect for you (the audience) and for the art instagram.com/rwballet of dance by doing their very best work. pinterest.com/rwballet • Appreciation: Tell performers you enjoyed the show by clapping at the end of a particular dance (when there is a pause in the music) and at the end of the performance. MOULIN ROUGE® - THE BALLET | 2 STUDY GUIDE About Ballet The First Ballet down through centuries, freer in her movements and French choreographer In 16th century France and and which now form the allow the audience to see Marius Petipa collaborated Italy, royalty competed to basis of today’s classical her intricate footwork and with the Russian composer have the most splendid ballet style. complex jumps, which often Pyotr Tchaikovsky to create rivaled those of the men. the lavish story ballet court. Monarchs would The First search for and employ the Ballet companies were spectacles such as Swan Professional best poets, musicians and now being set up all over Lake, The Sleeping Beauty artists. At this time, dancing Dancers France to train dancers for and The Nutcracker. Today, became increasingly At first, ballets were the opera. The first official these ballets still form the theatrical. This form performed at the Royal ballet company (a collection basis of the classical ballet of entertainment, also Court, but in 1669 King of dancers who train repertoire of companies all called the ballet de court Louis opened the first professionally) was based over the world. opera house in Paris. Ballet at the Paris Opera and (court ballet), featured One Act Ballets elaborate scenery and was first viewed publicly opened in 1713. in the theatre as part of In 1909, the Russian lavish costumes, plus a The Pointe Shoe series of processions, the opera. The first opera impresario Serge Diaghilev poetic speeches, music and featuring ballet, entitled By 1830, ballet as a brought together a group dancing. The first known Pomone, included dances theatrical art form truly of dancers, choreographers, ballet, Le Ballet comique de created by Beauchamp. came into its own. composers, artists and la Reine, was performed Women participated in Influenced by the Romantic designers into his company, at court in 1581 by the ballets at court, but were Movement, which was the Ballets Russes. This Queen of France (and not seen in the theatre until sweeping the world of company took Paris by her ladies) at her sister’s 1681. Soon, as the number art, music, literature and storm as it introduced, wedding. of performances increased, philosophy, ballet took instead of long story ballets courtiers who danced on a whole new look. The in the classical tradition, The Sun King for a hobby gave way to ballerina ruled supreme. short, one-act ballets In the 17th century, professional dancers who Female dancers now such as, Schéhérazade, Les the popularity and trained longer and harder. wore calf-length, white, Sylphides, The Rite of Spring, development of ballet could The physical movement bell-shaped tulle skirts. Firebird and Petrouchka. be attributed to King Louis of the first professional To enhance the image of Some of the worlds XIV of France. He took dancers was severely the ballerina as light and greatest dancers, including dancing very seriously and hindered by their lavish ethereal, the pointe shoe Anna Pavlova (1881-1931), trained daily with his dance and weighty costumes and was introduced, enabling and Vasslav Nijinsky (1889- master, Pierre Beauchamp. headpieces. They also wore women to dance on the 1950), and choreographers One of the King’s famous dancing shoes with tiny tips of their toes. Mikhail Fokine (1880-1942) heels, which made it rather and George Balanchine roles was the Rising Sun Classical Ballet which led him to become difficult to dance with (1904-1983), were part of known as the “Sun King.” pointed toes. Although the term Diaghilev’s company. King Louis also set up “classical” is often used to the Academie Royale de Revealing Feet refer to traditional ballet, See for Danse (Royal Academy of and Ankles this term really describes yourself! Dance) in 1661, where, for Early in the 18th century a group of story ballets Do a search for images of the first time, steps were in Paris, the ballerina, first seen in Russia at the ballet dancers throughout structurally codified and Marie Camargo, shocked end of the 19th century.
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