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Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

a brief history of ballet (indonesian)



I. Perkembangan Ballet di Italia

Ballet dimulai pada masa kerajaan Renaissance Italia sebagai hasil arak-arakan istana, di mana pernikahan aristokrat merupakan perayaan yang mewah. Para musisi dan penari istana berkolaborasi untuk memberikan hiburan yang rumit dan indah untuk mereka. Ballet semakin dibentuk sengan adanya the French ballet de cour, yang terdiri dari tarian-tarian pergaulan yang dilakukan oleh kaum bangsawan juga dilengkapi dengan musik, pidato, kostum, dekorasi, dan kontes.

Seorang aristokrat Italia, bernama Catherine de 'Medici yang menaruh minat di bidang seni, menikah dengan pewaris mahkota Perancis, Henry II pada tahun 1547. Ia memperkenalkan ballet di Perancis serta memberi dukungan keuangan. Hiburan ini mendukung tujuan politik kerajaan dan biasanya diselenggarakan dengan tema berbau mitologis (mythological).

Ballet Renaissance masih jauh dengan bentuk pertunjukan/hiburan yang diketahui masyarakat saat ini. Sepatu ballet dan pointe work belum digunakan. Koreografi tarian diadaptasi dari tarian-tarian kerajaan. Para penari menggunakan busana yang populer pada masa itu. Bagi penari perempuan, itu berarti mengenakan gaun formal yang panjangnya sampai ke mata kaki. Ballet dahulu merupaka partisipatif, artinya penonton akan bergabung di dalam tarian menjelang akhir pertunjukan.

Ballet yang pertama kali dipentaskan adalah Ballet Comique de la Reine, pada tahun 1581 yang dikoreografi dan diarahkan oleh Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx dan merupakan sebuah ballet comique atau ballet drama. Ballet ini dipentaskan di istana Perancis oleh 24 penari dan berlangsung selama kira-kira 5 jam. Di tahun yang sama, publikasi untuk Fabritio Caroso's Il Ballarino, manual teknis tarian kerajaan, membantu menjadikan Italia sebagai pusat pengembangan teknis Ballet.


II. Perkembangan Ballet di Perancis

Ballet di Perancis, dikenalkan oleh Catherine de Medici, seorang bangsawan Italia yang menikah dengan pewaris takhta kerajaan, Henry II. Pada saat itu, ballet merupakan gabungan dari tarian, nyanyian, serta acting.

King Louis XIV, anak dari pasangan Catherine-Henry, sangat menyukai tari-menari. Pierre Beauchamp, pria yang membuat 5 posisi pada tangan dan kaki yang telah dikenal sekarang, merupakan guru tari privat Louis XIV. Kemudian pada tahun 1661, King Louis XIV, mendirikan the Académie Royale de Danse (sekarang Royal Academy of Dancing/RAD) dengan Pierre Beauchamp sebagai school director dari tahun 1689-1687.

Rok-rok panjang dan longgar dipakai oleh para penari kerajaan, sampai tahun 1720-an saat Marie-Anne Camargo, ballerina besar pertama, memendekkan roknya dan menunjukkan mata kakinya. Dia juga memprakarsai gerakan à terre dan mengembangkan menari en l’air.

Pada abad ke 18, terjadi perkembangan besar dalam tekhnik ballet dan tariannya. Secara bertahap, ballet tidak tergabung lagi dengan opera. Muncul berbagai bentuk seni di dalam ballet itu sendiri.

PICTURES


The romantic era of ballet, identic with long and flowing skirts just above the ankle. no tutus are yet have been made at the time.



Odile (the black swan) and Prince Seyfried in Swan Lake


Odette (the white swan) and the swan lake corps the ballet (that means, a group of female dancer dancing the same choreography)



Oh my Gosh.......

-Salsabila Andriana-

p.s.: please don't copy-paste my work. i worked hard on this. its supposed to be a clipping for my ballet theory class. no copy-pasting, k?



Sunday, August 22, 2010

"Namarina's 'Talking Toes' is jolly good fun" The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 09/07/2002 7:28 AM | Life

Tantri Yuliandini, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Remember my name, Fame; I'm gonna live forever; I'm gonna learn how to fly, high; I feel it coming together; People will see me and cry.
In the spirit of the hugely popular 1980s MGM/United Artist film, television series and musical Fame, Namarina ballet and jazz school presents Talking Toes, the musical, which opened on Friday and will run until Sunday.
It is refreshing to see a production that is unpretentious -- one that knows exactly what its limitations are, plays its strengths to the maximum and is not afraid to ask for help in areas it has no expertise in.
This is exactly the case with Talking Toes, a production that blends song, dance and drama, of which Namarina can boast expertise in only one area: dance.
But to polish up the show, the school's artistic director, Maya Tamara Sianturi, did not hesitate to employ Teater Koma's Joshua Pandelaki as acting director and recruit young arranger Ferdy Tumakaka for the music.
The result is immediately evident, a toe-tapping, finger-snapping production that's fun to watch and one that will make you wonder why you ever gave up ballet all those years ago.
As with FameTalking Toes takes place in a performing arts school, the Namarina Performing Arts High School, where three major courses are taught -- Dance, Drama and Music. It is the story about the lives of the school's students, each striving to become a star.
The first scene shows enrollment day. In tune with the song Pray I Make PA, hopeful teenagers audition for a place in the school and are selected by three of the school's masters -- dance teacher Ms. French (Lisa Samadikun), music teacher Ms. Jackson (Arsidianti Boediono) and drama teacher Ms. Monroe (Thessa Kaunang).
As school commences, leading students from each class emerge -- Frank (Raymond van Heije) and Anabella (Agatha Pritania Tajuw) in the music class, Christopher ""CJ"" Johnson (Anthony Alexander) and Sissy (Shintia Novita/Rialita Wijaya) in the dancing class, and John Jones (Ai Syarif), Bill William (Edo/Lucas Welfried) and Daisy (Triesca Ariesandy/Enrinia Tanod) in the drama class.
Each student encounters problems, with the most prominent represented by CJ's love for dancing and nothing else. This soon gets him into trouble with Ms. Jackson.
The acting, though, is nothing to speak of, neither is the English used in the production, which sounds strained and artificial.
""We wanted our students to go global, the English language is one way and our students needed the training,"" Maya said.
The characters of Talking Toes are shallow, their problems undeveloped and unresolved. Many of the side-plots are left hanging, like Ms. Jackson's ailing husband, a problem which disrupts her teaching, and the conflict between her and CJ.
But Namarina knows exactly what it's good at, and the number of song and dance scenes in the production very well makes up for the lame storyline. The problem, of course, makes the scenes of the other two classes, drama and music, boring.
One of the more humorous scenes in the production is during the Romeo and Juliet practice scene involving drama students John Jones, Bill William and Daisy. At first, talented Bill is partnered with Daisy for the part, and all goes great until he has to kiss Juliet.
""I am more comfortable playing Juliet,"" he says coyly, to the laughter of the audience and the players themselves.
But when Bill is replaced with John, Romeo and Juliet's kissing scene becomes real, much to the dismay of Bill.
The accompanying music is also surprisingly good, considering Ferdy Tumakaka's 17 years.
""The songs are taken from Fame the musical and movie. I tried to rearrange them to a more modern taste and not so 80s in ambience,"" the young arranger said. The result, a fresh mix of rap, jazz, pop, hip-hop, rock, blues and samba.
Talking Toes will be staged at Graha Bhakti Budaya, Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) on Sept. 7 at 7:30 p.m. and on Sept. 8 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

udah lama sih, tapi keren aja.. baru tau namarina mentasin adaptasi fame (dulu) dan ms. tania udah pentas !!

Sunday, August 1, 2010

ballet exam

sumpah tadi gak enak banget exam-nya. i never sweat that much ever in my life.. mana pengujinya miss maya lagi.. things are worse kalo sama dia.. harus dancy and blabla... i hope i'll get a good score... desperate.. kalo misalnya nilainya 60 gmn ? gak mau.. mending kalo nilainya deket ke 70, kalo 63 ? aaaaa.. scared

Saturday, July 31, 2010

besok

besok bakal ujian ballet grade 5.. wish me luck ya.. takut banget, soalnya pengujinya miss maya. jadi kita (ayessa, gw, kak vika, isabel) bakalan ujian tanggal 1 agustus biar bisa naik ke grade 6 dan/ intermediate foundation. kata miss devina, kalo ujiannya sama miss maya, kita itu harus bersikp dancy, senyum, dan kalo salah : 'dont make any faces'. jadi raut mukanya harus bener-bener deh ; DANCY...

sepatu gw... aa sebel gila, pitanya ngocol abis, warnanya ituloh beda sendiri gitu.. jeez. malesin abis.. oke sepatunya bloch kulit tapi tetep aja kan, yang namanya ballet shoes harus enak dipake. ini mah, boro-boro.. oke mungkin karena sepatunya baru.. tapi tetep aja kan..

oke wish me luck for tomorrow !!!