Comment on the ballet Swan Lake

10 10/day, my parents took me to see the ballet Swan Lake performed by the Russian National Ballet. I'm so happy!

After arriving at the theater, we bought a brief introduction of Swan Lake and took our seats in turn. I read the introduction before the ballet began. In the introduction, the plot of the whole story and some actors are briefly introduced. The ballet began, and my father gently told me, "You must be quiet when watching the ballet!" " "I nodded seriously.

This ballet has four acts. The red curtain slowly opened and the background of the court appeared on the stage. There is a funny court clown, a noble queen and a mighty prince in the bright court. Many friends of the prince danced together.

I like the second act best. Because, there is a white swan princess in it. In this scene, there are four cygnets performing a foursome dance. They danced neatly! There is also a duet between Princess Swan and Prince. Their movements are all difficult, which really takes ten years to get off the stage in one minute. The music in this play is beautiful, and the actors' dances are elegant, which makes me feast my eyes. In particular, it tells the story of the prince going hunting in the forest. He met a group of swans, and the swans gradually became elegant princesses. The princess told the prince that an evil wizard had turned them into swans. Only when a prince truly loves them can they return to their original state. The prince swore to heaven that he would love her forever.

The third act is about the process of the prince choosing the princess. When all the princesses finished dancing, the prince was at a loss. At this moment, a beautiful princess and an arrogant knight appeared. They are black swans and wizards. The prince thinks that the black swan is very similar to the white swan, so he decides to choose the black swan as his wife. At this time, the white swan appeared, and the prince suddenly realized that this was not the white swan he met by the lake at all. He was very upset and fled the court quietly.

In the fourth act, the prince and the wizard fought fiercely. In the end, the prince won and the princesses were free.

After watching it, I was very excited. I learned the movements of the actors. Mom says I have a strong learning ability. I hear you dancing.

Comment on the ballet Swan Lake

In the heyday of the Renaissance in15-16th century, ballet appeared in Italy, and artists tried their best to imitate the artistic style of ancient Greece. The earliest ballet performances were held at court banquets. 1489, orpheus was staged in an Italian town to celebrate the wedding of the Duke of Milan and Princess Idabel in Aragon, Spain. The form of performance at that time was completely different from the ballet performance we see today. Each performance is generally related to providing food, such as eating wild boar after the simulated hunting performance begins; The sea god and the river god appeared and began to eat fish. Then, many mythical figures came on stage to provide many dishes and fruits, and finally the guests took part in a lively and carnival performance. This is a performance form that combines singing, dancing, recitation and drama performance. It can be said that it is the embryonic form of ballet, and later people call it "banquet ballet". Ballet continued to develop and went through several main stages: court ballet, plot ballet, romantic ballet, Russian ballet and contemporary ballet. The Swan Lake we watched belongs to the classic Russian ballet.

The creative background of Swan Lake;

In the summer of, Tchaikovsky went to Amin, Ukraine for a holiday and visited his sister who lived there. As an uncle, he wrote a one-act play for his lovely nephews based on the fairy tale Swan Lake by German writer Mo Sais. 1875 In August, Gritzer, president of Moscow Imperial Theatre, collaborated with playwright Pichev to create a large-scale dance drama Swan Lake, and entrusted Tchaikovsky to compose music for it, with a remuneration of 800 rubles. Tchaikovsky, who had long expected to try in the field of dance drama, based on this short ballet composed four years ago, incorporated it into the music of the opera "Goddess of Water" created by 1869, and completed all the music creation in April of the following year. The play is divided into four acts and 29 songs. Soon, Swan Lake was choreographed and directed by German Zeng Ge, and officially premiered in Moscow, with Lopov as the conductor. Unfortunately, they were at a loss about Tchaikovsky's innovation. They randomly added the music of other composers, such as Puni, instead of the original score. This abnormality is due to the mediocrity of the choreographer, who tied a thin stick to the arm of the actress who played the swan and made them imitate the wings of a bird, which eventually led to the complete failure of the premiere and stopped after only a few performances. Tchaikovsky, who was introverted, blamed his music for the failure of the performance. He always planned to modify the music of Swan Lake, but he died before he started.

1894, with the cooperation of assistant Lev Ivanov, Marius Pitipa, the general director of Mariinsky Theatre in Petersburg, gave a performance commemorating the first anniversary of Tchaikovsky's death, and put the second act of Swan Lake back on the stage for the first time. Then one or three acts were directed by Pitipa and two or four acts were directed by Ivanov. The whole play was staged in Petersburg on1October 27th. 1895. With the help of conductor Derrigo, they made necessary additions and deletions to the ballet score and adjusted the order. There are various innovations in choreography, giving them different personalities and rhythms to highlight the sharp contrast between good and evil between Ogle Tower and ogier Ya. The actress Pierina laigna, who was the heroine at that time, creatively reflected the director's intention with delicate feeling, light dancing and complete skills. It is said that in the third act, the swan did 32 Fouette (one-legged spin) in one breath, which is the first time to complete this ballet dancer's stunt. The reenactment of Swan Lake was a great success and reached the brilliant peak of classical romantic dance drama. In the 20th century, with the spread of ballet art all over the world, Swan Lake became the most performed classical ballet by ballet companies all over the world, and different versions appeared. The existing five professional ballet companies in China regard Swan Lake as their regular repertoire and become the most familiar and favorite ballet of China people. Most ballet lovers began to feel the charm of ballet from Swan Lake. Next year 12 to 12, four versions of Swan Lake will be staged in the first Beijing International Dance Performance Season.

These performances are from the Central Ballet, the Russian All-Star Art Festival Ballet, the Belarusian National Theatre Ballet and the Cuban National Ballet.

Next, I want to talk about the story of Swan Lake, which is probably the most interesting thing for everyone. What do dancers show after their rich body language? Let's go to the ballet in the future, and read the story first, which will definitely help us understand dance. The story of Swan Lake goes like this:

On the day when Prince Siegfried came of age, the palace held a princess-choosing dance for him. The prince was dissatisfied with this emotionless ceremony. His friend Beno comforted him. Towards dusk, a flock of swans flew across the sky, and the prince followed him with a bow. A flock of geese swam across the lake, and Princess Aogueta wore a crown in it. The prince raised his bow to shoot, and Aogueta complained about injustice. The prince is determined to defeat the devil with pure feelings and make her change back to her original appearance, and invites her to the princess selection dance tomorrow. With the coming of night, these geese were lured away by the devil. The prince pressed a feather left by Aogueta to his chest and vowed to save the princess from her suffering.

In the palace, the prince who cares about the Ogle Tower is not seduced by the charming princesses who look after her. In order to break the oath between the prince and Ogle Tower, the devil broke into the palace with his daughter Ogle Tower. All the guests from all over the world who came to the ball were amused by Oglia. The prince mistakenly thought that she was Oglia and danced the famous black swan duet. The prince who fell into the trap swore to heaven that the devil suddenly gave a grimace of a grin. Suddenly, when the prince saw the desperate white swan outside the window, he realized that he had been cheated and rushed out of the court in despair. Ogetta painfully told his companion that "the prince was ungrateful" and decided to die. The prince came to confess and ask for forgiveness. The demon king showed the true face of an owl and fought to the death with the prince. Of course, the final outcome is that innocent feelings finally overcome evil. When the dark clouds cleared, the earth shone, and Ogetta and the swans changed back to human forms, Princess Ogetta and Prince Siegfried lived happily ever after. At the moment, I have to mention the soul-stirring melody, the core of this ballet.

Tchaikovsky had many innovations in ballet music. He overcame the shortcomings of the past formula of ballet music, endowed it with the development of symphony, made it more dramatic, and greatly improved its expressive force. In the music of Swan Lake, he successfully applied the principles of symphony, the comparison and development of themes in sonata forms, and the free use of fugue and Rondo forms. Tchaikovsky greatly enriched and improved the musicality and expressive force of classical dance (including duet, trio, quartet and solo dance, etc.). ) and the representative folk dances in the ballet (including the characteristic dances of various ethnic groups and regions) make it look brand-new. Guided by sincere and touching melodies and weeping lyrics, he skillfully used various musical expressions to shape characters and launch dramatic conflicts. The music of the whole dance drama is beautiful, complete and poetic. Tchaikovsky emphasized that music is beautiful, complete and poetic, and music plays an enterprising role in ballet. By using the development of dominant motivation, high-density sound texture and other symphony creation techniques, the music is closely consistent with the feelings of the characters and specific scenes in the play, and a high degree of unity is achieved. In the second act of "Two-person Turn of White Swan", the sad and euphemistic melody vividly expresses the helplessness of Princess Aogueta trapped in her clutches and her infinite yearning for pure feelings and free life. Since the publication of Swan Lake, it has attracted many first-class composers to enter the field of ballet creation, and outstanding works have emerged one after another.

Finally, thanks to our great dancers, who are the real soul of the dance drama.

The highest task of dance drama art is to create a dazzling dance image, and a successful dance image will bring endless aesthetic enjoyment to the audience. This performance can be called ballets russes's "all-star lineup": there are national meritorious actors (the highest honor of Russian artists) and many world champions. The girl image of the enchanted white swan shown in the second act of Swan Lake is charming, vivid and touching, and unforgettable. Proud (the dance of stretching arms and lifting legs) is accompanied by jumping up, swinging like wings and breaking arms and toes. When meeting the prince, he would turn his palm over to block his face, avoid the eyes of strangers, show a shy posture, and create a vivid image of Aogueta the Swan.

I believe that everyone has a necessary understanding of the ballet Swan Lake at this moment, and if they have the opportunity to watch it again in the future, they will definitely see it more clearly. What needs to be mentioned is that we can enjoy ballet from movies, TV, VCD and other aspects at the moment, but to truly and comprehensively understand and feel the charm of ballet art, we should still walk into the theater. This is because ballet expresses feelings through the body and shape of the actors. Both solo and duet need the integrity of dance and the continuity of action. However, film or TV art has its own artistic rules, and it needs to use lens language to change the scene, sometimes panoramic, sometimes medium and sometimes close-up. When the shot conversion is not handled properly, the following scenes often appear: when the whole body dance should be used to express some emotions of the characters, only one excited face can be seen on the screen; It was originally a sculptural body shape, but it put its hand out of the picture; This is a wonderful dance, only two legs wearing pointed shoes move on the screen. Ballet is a kind of dramatic art, which is inseparable from the communication between actors and audiences. Students who go to the scene to watch the performance must have a deep understanding.

Comment on the ballet Swan Lake

This year, I was lucky enough to take the course of dance appreciation. During the class, the teachers watched various dance competitions for us with square dance, and ballet left the deepest impression on me. Now I'll talk about my feelings after reading it.

In the heyday of the Renaissance in15-16th century, ballet appeared in Italy, and artists tried their best to imitate the artistic style of ancient Greece. The earliest ballet performances were held at court banquets. 1489, orpheus was staged in an Italian town to celebrate the wedding of the Duke of Milan and Princess Idabel in Aragon, Spain. The form of performance at that time was completely different from the ballet performance we see today. Each performance is generally related to providing food, such as eating wild boar after the simulated hunting performance begins; The sea god and the river god appeared and began to eat fish. Then, many mythical figures came on stage to provide many dishes and fruits, and finally the guests took part in a lively and carnival performance. This is a performance form that combines singing, dancing, recitation and drama performance. It can be said that it is the embryonic form of ballet, and later people call it "banquet ballet". Ballet continued to develop and went through several main stages: court ballet, plot ballet, romantic ballet, Russian ballet and contemporary ballet. The Swan Lake we watched belongs to the classic Russian ballet. Swan Lake is a ballet created by Tchaikovsky, which consists of four acts and was created in 1876. This is Tchaikovsky's first dance drama, which is based on folklore. The plot is: Princess Aogueta is turned into a white swan by the devil in Swan Lake. Prince Siegfried visited Swan Lake and fell in love with Aogueta. On the night when the prince chose the bride, the devil made his daughter, the black swan, pretend to be Aogueta to cheat the prince. The prince was almost cheated, and finally found out in time that he had attacked the demon and killed it. The white swan changed back to the original shape of the princess, combined with the prince and ended with a happy ending.

After watching Swan Lake, I was moved by this great creation, which is a wonderful work of ballet. After watching it, I deeply realized the hardships of practicing ballet. The most important symbol of ballet is the tiptoe landing. If you don't master it well, you can completely abolish a person's foot. Therefore, every ballet dancer is great and not easy. We should learn to sit down and appreciate their every move. I just learned from the internet that the main movements that need to be trained in learning ballet are:

1. leg press: This is the most basic training material in basic dance training, including front legs, side legs and hind legs. Leg press exercises help to open the ligaments of students' leg joints.

Second, shoulder pressing: this is a movement to open the ligament of the shoulder. When pressing the shoulder, put your arm straight on the handle. The distance between the legs is slightly equal to the shoulder width. Both the head and spine should be relaxed, and the shoulder ligament can be felt to be stretched when pressed down.

Third, the combination of pushing the instep: the quality of the instep varies from person to person, and most of it depends on congenital factors, but we can't ignore the training acquired. Before training, move from toes to the whole instep; When training, hold the handle with both hands, hold your chest up, raise your hips and stand with your feet together, starting with one instep training.

Fourth, combined pole training: Dance training is very different from professional dance training. When doing the action combination on the handle, it is impossible to be as intense and difficult as professional students. Only after several years of amateur training can we achieve the combination of difficulty and intensity when our own conditions can reach the professional level.