Interesting facts about ballet

Interesting facts about ballet

What do you know about ballet? What is this genre when it originated, in which country? We have prepared for you fascinating facts with which to study this most beautiful art form will become even more interesting.

• Thus, for the first time on the national stage, ballet was staged in 1675 in the theater of Alexei Mikhailovich, its plot was connected with the myth of Orpheus.
  
• Initially, only men participated in the performance.
  
• Russian ballet had such weight all over the world that sometimes foreign artists took on themselves Russian pseudonyms - Patrick Healy-Key (Anton Dolin), Alice Marks (Alicia Markova)
  
• In the troupe, the artists occupy different positions, for example, the leading soloists are called: prima ballerina or premiere. In the crowd scenes involved corps de ballet.
  
• The greatest billboard of all time was published in Paris in 1909. It was made in honor of the tour of Anna Pavlova, its length was 2x3 meters, and its author is V. Serov.
  
• The premiere of the ballet "The Magic Mirror" in 1903 is one of the most expensive productions. During the performance, a huge mirror, on the surface of which mercury was poured, cracked right on the stage and the dangerous substance spilled out onto the floor, causing considerable fright from the artists and laughter from the audience.
  
• The most striking incident occurred with the Russian ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, who broke her leg right on the stage, and even the audience heard the characteristic crunch. However, the actress completed her number to the end, without interrupting it even for a minute and receiving a triple leg fracture that day.
  

• Everyone knows that special shoes are called pointe shoes. They are made strictly for each artist according to individual standards. For the year, one ballerina changes up to 300 pairs, provided that she is prima, for ordinary artists it takes much less - up to 100. But the idea to stand on the tips of the fingers belongs to Italian actress Maria Taloni. She also introduced the fashion for special clothes - a pack.
  
• Ballet dancers, like many people associated with creative activities are very superstitious. For example, they prefer to go to their dressing room with their left foot, and if a ballerina crossed the road before the performance, it promises her trouble.
  
• The spectators are very interested in watching the light, air movements of the dancers, meanwhile it is a tremendous work. They experience very heavy workloads, and therefore even get sick four times more often than people of other professions. A man in ballet during the entire performance raises about 10 tons, on the basis that the average weight of a ballerina is 50 kg and it takes about 200 times to pick it up.

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