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Ballet

Welcome to ODP-Ballet: the premiere repository of sites for all things ballet. The Internet contains an enormous amount of Ballet Dance information. Perhaps too much. Personal pages are going through an explosion. Every week, a new dance/ballet site is created by an amateur dancer, eager to show off their personal photos and opinions. You are more than welcome to join this category and help us organize the wonderful world of Ballet. You will not regret it!

Please submit sites dealing with this ballet, including performance notes, studies, and reviews.

Artifact

1984 ballet written and choreographed by William Forsythe with music by Eva Crossman-Hecht and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Please submit sites dealing with this ballet, including performance notes, studies, and reviews.

Companies

Please check first to see if there is a country subcategory specific to your information. If so, please submit to that subcategory.

This category is for information on ballet companies covering more than one country in Africa.

Composers

This category is for sites focusing on composers who wrote specifically for the ballet and for discussions of the needs specific to the genre.

Please submit sites dealing with the composers of balletic music, including biographies, discographies, analyses of compositions, or bibliographies. Sites dedicated to individual composers should be submitted to the appropriate category in Composers and a link will be made from this category.

Reference

This category includes links to ballet articles, online dictionaries, CD-ROM's, books, movies, combinations, basic ballet, and more.

All submitted sites must be G-rated.

Sites which display other''s work must have either a bibliography, copyright notice, or have credited the author or parent-source.

Schools

This is for private schools specializing in Ballet instruction, often integrated with regular school curriculum. There are ballet companies that also offer ballet instruction on the side. These should only be listed in the related Ballet/Companies category only.

Swan Lake

Ballet in four acts, based on a German fairy tale, with music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The first production of the ballet was in Moscow, 4 May 1877, at the Bolshoi Theater, with choreography by Julius Reisinger.

Submissions must relate specifically to a ballet production of Swan Lake.