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[[File:Chenxin Liu - Don Quichotte, Kitri - Prix de Lausanne 2010-7.jpg|thumb|400px|A grand jeté, with the ballerina's arms in fifth position - arguably the iconic ballet move for a solo dancer.]]
Think [[Pimped-Out Dress|tutus]], pretty girls, and [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]].
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By the 19th century, Russia had adopted its own style and continued to train even under Soviet rule. The Russian Ballet is one the most famous of all companies.
* American Ballet Theatre (USA)
* The Australian Ballet (Australia)
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* The San Francisco Ballet (USA)
Ballet technique would require far too much elaboration for this page. Ballet dancers typically start at 8 years old and continue training into their late teens. When not taught properly, ballet can result in the most crippling of injuries, which is one of the reasons why lessons are considered fairly expensive. Among the [[Hollywood Pudgy|pressure]] to sculpt a 'Balanchine body', the promise of a short career, and [[Training from Hell|intense training]], being a ballerina is not some
Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Alicia Alonso, Briely Movric, Paloma Herrera, Svetlana Zakharova, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nuriev, Angel Corella, and Mikhail Baryshnikov are some of the most famous dancers in the world.
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{{examples|Ballets with All The Tropes pages}}
* [[Alice's
* [[Coppelia]]
* [[The Firebird]]
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{{examples|Works with major involvement of ballet}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Ballet Shoes]]'': A book about three adopted girls living in 1930's England. Together they are being trained in dance, with varying degrees of success.▼
* ''[[Billy Elliot]]'': A young boy rebels against the prejudices of his working class friends and family to pursue his love of ballet. Set during the mining strikes of Thatcher's Britain.▼
* ''[[Black Swan]]'': The intense stress of life in a ballet corps drives one dancer to paranoia and madness.▼
* ''[[The Cherry Project]]'': About a figure skater training in ballet.
* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'': Combines ballet with [[Magical Girl]] tropes.
* ''[[The Red Shoes (film)|The Red Shoes]]'': Romance and ambition collide, tragedy ensues. Based loosely on the [[Hans Christian Andersen]] tale of the same name.▼
* ''[[Swan]]'': A [[Shojo]] about a young ballet student striving [[To Be a Master]].
== Film ==
▲* ''[[Billy Elliot]]'': A young boy rebels against the prejudices of his working class friends and family to pursue his love of ballet. Set during the mining strikes of Thatcher's Britain.
▲* ''[[Black Swan]]'': The intense stress of life in a ballet corps drives one dancer to paranoia and madness.
▲* ''[[The Red Shoes (1948 film)|The Red Shoes]]'': Romance and ambition collide, tragedy ensues. Based loosely on the [[Hans Christian Andersen]] tale of the same name.
* ''[[The Turning Point]]'': Aging ballerina and her retired friend rehash old professional rivalry. Mikhail Baryshnikov's film debut. Received eleven Academy Award nominations, [[Award Snub|all of which it lost]].
* ''[[Brain Donors]]'' is a remake/homage of the [[Marx Brothers]]' ''[[A Night at the Opera]]'' set instead in a ballet company. The film's climactic sequence involves a massive lampoon of several famous ballets, most prominently ''[[Swan Lake]]''.
== Literature ==
▲* ''[[Ballet Shoes]]'': A book about three adopted girls living in 1930's England. Together they are being trained in dance, with varying degrees of success.
== Music ==
* [[Kate Bush]]'s 1993 album ''The Red Shoes'' was inspired by the film of the same name; its [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zB_kgWpC5o title song] directly draws on the film and its video naturally employs ballet stylings although it gets a little... surreal at points. The video itself is part of a short film entitled ''[[The Line, the Cross and the Curve]]'' (starring Bush, [[Miranda Richardson]] and British dancer, actor and choreographer [[Lindsay Kemp]]) which provides its own take on the story of the film.
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