Ballet master

The ballet master is the person in charge of the direction with a troop of Danse and scheduling of the Ballet S and spectacles choreographic within a theater.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the expression indicates the most rank of the hierarchy of the corps de ballet within the royal Académie of music of Paris: the ballet master is charged to compose the dances of the entertainments with the lyric tragedies, comedy-ballets and opera ballets; he distributes the roles and leads the repetitions. Later, it is him which puts in scene the dramatic ballets. Generally dancer himself and pedagog, it directs also the school of dance attached to the ballet.

Until the end of the 19th century, with rare exceptions, it is always a man. He is the main thing even only the Chorégraphe of the troop and the agent of the repertory.

Often resulting from the troop which it will be brought to direct, the ballet master can also come from another troop. Thus a circulation of the ballet masters settles gradually through the Europe then, at the 20th century, through the whole world. This mobility supports the internationalization of the Ballet dancing and the multiplication of the schools and the styles.

At the 20th century, the ballet master loses little by little his prerogatives: not being more necessarily the appointed choreographer, it second the creator by supervising the repetitions and takes care of the transmission of the repertory.

Some famous ballet masters

See too

uses of dancer

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