page_title: Ballet
section_title: Bournonville method
hierarchical_section_title: Ballet / Technical methods of ballet instruction / Bournonville method
caption_attribution_description: English: Creator: Unidentified for Truth newspapers. Location: Queensland. Description: Caption: Loraine Bunderson (front row, third from right) who got her certificate in the R. A. D. exams excelled in mime as well as toe work. (For exam results, see Truth, 4 September 1938, p. 18.) This image is part of the Sunday Sun newspaper collection at State Library of Queensland. View this image at the State Library of Queensland: http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/81476 Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/picture-queensland You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute State Library of Queensland.
context_page_description: Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread, highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary based on French terminology. It has been globally influential and has defined the foundational techniques used in many other dance genres and cultures. Ballet has been taught in various schools around the world, which have historically incorporated their own cultures and as a result, the art has evolved in a number of distinct ways. See glossary of ballet.
  A ballet, a work, consists of the choreography and music for a ballet production. Ballets are choreographed and performed by trained ballet dancers. Traditional classical ballets are usually performed with classical music accompaniment and use elaborate costumes and staging, whereas modern ballets, such as the neoclassical works of American choreographer George Balanchine, are often performed in simple costumes and without the use of elaborate sets or scenery.
context_section_description: The Bournonville method is a Danish method first devised by August Bournonville. Bournonville was heavily influenced by the early French ballet method due to his training with his father, Antoine Bournonville and other important French ballet masters. This method has many style differences that differentiate it from other ballet methods taught today. A key component is the use of diagonal  épaulements, with the upper body turning towards the working foot typically. This method also incorporates very basic use of arms, pirouettes from a low développé position into seconde, and use of fifth position bras en bas for the beginning and end of movements.
  The Bournonville method produces dancers who have beautiful ballon ("the illusion of imponderable lightness").
caption: Young girls competing at the Royal Academy of Dancing (London) exams held in Brisbane and Toowoomba, 1938
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