The Main Elements of the Romantic Ballet Period and the Social Context

• Bell tutu so the ballerinas are only showing their ankles-this was so you could see their foot work and it was also fashion for the public in the era.

• Wings on their backs and floaty arms to enhance the idea of the supernatural-the public wanted to see it and this also connected to the plea for escapism from industrialisation.

 

• The point shoes create a weightlessness effect-this also creates a realistic love story.

• Males are only there because they are used for support-there is a decline in males onstage to offstage but there strength is needed for the lifts used in ballet dances.

• Sunset creating night scenes enhancing the supernatural theme-using gas lamps creating the moonlight effect.

• Ballerinas performing little steps-this was fashion because the culture said that no legs should be shown and also movement vocabulary shows that the moves are not developed.

Setting of Performance

• The invention of gas lighting within the theatre of the time to create night time scene.
• The use of wires and trap doors to create the style og the performance.
• Romantic ballet tutu (belle tutu).