{"id":587,"date":"2014-05-06T18:51:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2014-05-06T18:51:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T18:51:11","slug":"day-47-of-84-days-of-84-ribbons-story-ballets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2014\/05\/06\/day-47-of-84-days-of-84-ribbons-story-ballets\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 47 of 84 Days of 84 Ribbons: Story Ballets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past century, ballet lovers have flocked to see the classic story ballets like <em>Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, <span class=\"hiddenSpellError\">Coppelia<\/span><\/em>\u00a0 and\u00a0 <em>Nutcracker.<\/em> They&#8217;ve lasted thru the modern and abstract ballets and will probably continue in popularity for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>A new series of full-length story or narrative ballets is emerging. Choreographers are using <span class=\"hiddenSpellError\">Disney-esque<\/span> ideas and popular books as resources to create. The trick is to translate stories into the wordless medium of ballet; hence the need for mime.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher <span class=\"hiddenSpellError\">Wheeldon<\/span>, in January, 2014&#8217;s <em>Dance<\/em> magazine says, &#8220;Choreographers gravitate to fantasy, escape and romance because these are themes that work in the pointe shoe.&#8221; They are doing as many directors do, changing up the centuries-old story lines and moving them forward to modern time. This creates the need for new scores as well as how to use the musicians: on stage, in the pit or backstage. It invites new costuming and sets as well. It&#8217;s an exciting turn of events, promising faster-paced music and choreography with an ever-expanding use of more gymnastic movement added to the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Guess we shouldn&#8217;t expect a series of ballets about Mad Men or Downton Abbey just yet, but one choreographer created a successful ballet based on <em>A Streetcar Named Desire<\/em>. What books, music, news or TV programs do you think would transfer to a ballet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past century, ballet lovers have flocked to see the classic story ballets like Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Coppelia\u00a0 and\u00a0 Nutcracker. They&#8217;ve lasted thru the modern and abstract ballets and will probably continue in popularity for decades to come. A new series of full-length story or narrative ballets is emerging. Choreographers are using Disney-esque ideas and popular books as resources to create. The trick is to translate stories into the wordless medium of ballet; hence the need for mime. Christopher Wheeldon, in January, 2014&#8217;s Dance magazine says, &#8220;Choreographers gravitate to fantasy, escape and romance because these are themes that work&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-84-ribbons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}