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The 52 pages that link to Ballet, each with the reason it gives.

• ChoreographyBroader topic: Ballet offers a highly developed vocabulary for choreographic design.

• Musical theatreCompared with: Ballet can tell stories through movement without the dialogue and songs typical of musicals.

• Igor StravinskyNarrower topic: Ballet commissions first brought Stravinsky broad attention and shaped several landmark scores.

• Modern danceCompared with: Modern dance developed partly in opposition to ballet’s codified movement and ideals.

• Swan LakeNarrower topic: Swan Lake is one of ballet’s most widely recognized narrative works.

• Martha GrahamCompared with: Graham challenged ballet’s conventions rather than treating its vocabulary as the sole basis for concert dance.

• DanceBroader topic: It is a highly structured performance tradition within dance.

• The Royal BalletNarrower topic: The company’s work belongs to this dance tradition.

• Dance educationNarrower topic: Ballet institutions supplied influential models for formal dance instruction.

• New York City BalletNarrower topic: The company develops its repertory within this broader dance tradition.

• Dance musicRelated: Ballet music is composed to support choreographed movement and dramatic structure.

• Sergei ProkofievNarrower topic: Several of Prokofiev’s best-known scores were composed for ballet.

• Edgar DegasRelated: Ballet rehearsals and performances supplied Degas with recurring subjects and studies of bodies in motion.

• Grand operaRelated: A substantial ballet sequence was often built into grand opera’s act structure.

• Imperial Russian BalletNarrower topic: Imperial Russian Ballet developed as a national institution within this wider art form.

• KathakCompared with: Comparing its movement conventions highlights Kathak’s relationship to rhythm and storytelling.

• Ballet de courNarrower topic: Ballet de cour belongs to the history of the broader theatrical dance form.

• Ballroom danceCompared with: Its staged, mostly non-partnered tradition contrasts with ballroom's couple-based social roots.

• Philip GlassRelated: Glass composed scores for dance, including collaborations with choreographer Twyla Tharp.

• Frederick AshtonNarrower topic: Ashton's choreography reshapes ballet's classical vocabulary into individual dramatic and comic styles.

• PantomimeCompared with: Pantomime includes dance but combines it with spoken comedy, plot, and audience participation.

• Ballet d'actionNarrower topic: Ballet d'action is a dramatic form within this broader theatrical dance tradition.

• Jazz danceCompared with: Theatrical jazz may borrow ballet technique while retaining different rhythms and movement qualities.

• Concert danceBroader topic: Ballet is one of concert dance’s major traditions, with a distinctive technique and repertory.

• Corps de balletNarrower topic: The corps performs the coordinated movement central to ballet productions.

• Jean-Georges NoverreNarrower topic: Noverre worked within ballet while challenging its conventions.

• Maya PlisetskayaNarrower topic: Plisetskaya’s career became one of ballet’s most visible twentieth-century achievements.

• Palais GarnierNarrower topic: Ballet remains a central performance use of the Palais Garnier.

• Katherine DunhamCompared with: Dunham's training included ballet, whose conventions she broadened rather than simply reproducing.

• KhonCompared with: Its conventions offer a comparison for Khon’s distinct Thai movement and narration.

• African danceCompared with: Its stage conventions differ from traditions in which audience participation or social use is central.

• Royal Swedish OperaRelated: The company also presents ballet, alongside opera.

• History of theatreCompared with: Its history overlaps with theatre but centers movement rather than spoken drama.

• Incidental musicCompared with: Incidental music supports spoken drama; ballet places choreography at the center.

• Romeo and JulietNarrower topic: Romeo and Juliet turns a spoken drama into a story told through dance.

• Cyd CharisseNarrower topic: Charisse’s ballet training gave her controlled lines and a distinctive screen-dance vocabulary.

• Maurice BéjartNarrower topic: Béjart reworked ballet’s inherited technique for modern music, themes, and audiences.

• Goldie HawnNarrower topic: Hawn trained and worked as a dancer before becoming known as a comedian.

• Little Dancer of Fourteen YearsRelated: The depicted figure’s pose and costume identify her as a ballet student.

• Arthur Saint-LéonNarrower topic: His career developed within the classical ballet tradition and its institutions.

• Ballet dancerNarrower topic: Ballet dancers belong to the performance tradition this broader form names.

• Carmen de LavalladeNarrower topic: Classical ballet formed one strand of her early training and professional range.

• Leslie CaronNarrower topic: Caron’s ballet training supplied the movement technique visible in her early films.

• Patrick SwayzeNarrower topic: Swayze studied ballet from childhood and carried its discipline into film choreography.

• Zizi JeanmaireNarrower topic: Her classical training remained visible even in comic and popular performances.

• Cléo de MérodeNarrower topic: Her stage career belonged to ballet, even as publicity often foregrounded her appearance.

• Colette MarchandNarrower topic: Marchand’s dance career grew from this classical performance tradition.

• CurtsyRelated: Performers often curtsy to acknowledge applause after a ballet.

• George ChakirisNarrower topic: Chakiris trained as a dancer before becoming widely known as a film actor.

• History of danceBroader topic: Its development from court spectacle to international theatrical tradition illustrates major shifts in dance institutions.