Classicism: Introduction
How can a dancer become a choreographer's Muse?
Apollo Instructs a Muse
How do colors enhance a dancer’s beauty?
Artemis with Dress and Bow
How can postures show different ways of being godly?
Apollo/Dionysus
What if you worship gods as perfect nude humans?
Apollo Stares Down at Marsyas
What can a rectangle say to a wilderness?
Temple of Apollo
How can parts of a building be like dancers?
Interior of Temple of Apollo
What happens to us when a building lets in the sky?
The Pantheon
What can ballet learn from trees and columns?
Villa Rotunda
What is dance like in a building open to wilderness?
Epidauros Theater
What’s a dance when framed by straight lines?
Igor Dancing
How can bodies be made nobler by spaces they stand in?
School of Athens
What is ballet when a king is watching it?
Mariinsky Theater
Classicism: Dance
What is your path to the Classical Spirit?
Isadora Duncan
What is perfection in Ballet?
Nureyev in La Bayadére
How does Ballet transcend time?
Julie Kent
How does Ballet transform?
Peter Martins and Suzanne Farrell
Why do ballet dancers become world famous?
Maria Taglioni in La Sylphide
Does Ballet have different kinds of purity?
Arabesque in Golden Section
Where does what’s next come from?
In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated
How does Ballet balance the mind?
Sai Santhosh Radakrishnan
How is Ballet a discipline of Form
Baroque Equestrian Formations
Is Ballet sacred, cosmic, holy?
The Lord Shiva Nataraj
How do different arts share a concept?
Set design for La Morte di Ettore
Why should classical dance continue?
Japanese Noh
Classicism: Evolution
Can we look back in time?
Greek Vase with Different Sportsmen
How do you see life in a sculpture?
Apollo Belvedere
How important is it to understand what you see?
Vitruvian Man
Where do you begin to look?
A Dance to the Music of Time
Why did NASA name its space program Apollo?
Louis XIV as Apollo
How do you view the basics?
Ballet’s Five Positions
How do you know what something is telling you?
Mercury and Tallchief in Attitude
What does revolution mean to you?
Diaghilev and Stravinsky
Are you prepared to explore Classicism?
Afternoon of a Faun
How are you connected to the ideals of these men?
Kirstein and Balanchine
How does Ballet provide depth of experience?
Mitchell and Adams in Agon
What does constant learning look like?
Three Dancers in an Exercise Hall