DANC 106 & 107 - Ballet - Professor Ibarguen: Your Assignment

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This research guide was created for Professor Ibarguen's DANC 106 & 107 Ballet classes to help you with your research assignment. It lists library resources you can also use throughout the semester to help you get more information on the dance topics you're learning about in this class. The guide will be available all semester under the Research Guides tab of the Library home page. If you need help with your research the librarians are here to help. Just stop by, call, chat or email any time.

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Your Research Assignment

• Watch the full length ballet "Don Quixote"
• Write a personal response (At least four paragraphs)

Guidelines:

• The time and place that this story takes place? 
• What can you say regarding the music and choreography?
• How effective is this full length ballet in telling a story given there is no spoken word?
• Do you recognize the ballet vocabulary as similar to what we are using in our class this semester?
• What stands out to you regarding the dancing by the various individuals including not only the Principals but Soloists and Corps de Ballet.
• Pick 1 or 2 moments that really stood out in your memory (it might be useful to write down while watching the video!) What did you see? What effect did the movement have?

Three Options to Watch

American Ballet Theatre: Principal dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov and Cynthia Harvey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ok6qIt-Stc 

Kremlin Ballet 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDV6x2rjh9M

Scala de Milano Ballet 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pazAS4cNi7w