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The 29 pages that link to Romantic ballet, each with the reason it gives.

• BalletBroader topic: It redirected ballet toward poetic fantasy and helped establish the ballerina’s prominence.

• Classical balletBroader topic: It established repertory and aesthetic conventions central to the classical tradition.

• Ballet blancNarrower topic: Ballet blanc developed within its fascination with spirits, moonlit settings, and ethereal heroines.

• DanceBroader topic: It marks a major transformation in ballet’s themes and stage imagery.

• GiselleNarrower topic: Giselle is a landmark work that combines its characteristic themes and stage effects.

• Neoclassical balletCompared with: Its emphasis on narrative fantasy and romantic atmosphere contrasts with neoclassical abstraction.

• Théophile GautierRelated: Gautier’s reviews helped shape public discussion of the ballet’s imagery and stagecraft.

• Vaslav NijinskyCompared with: Its ideals of weightless female dancing differed sharply from Nijinsky’s forceful male stage presence.

• Marie TaglioniNarrower topic: Taglioni became one of its most influential performers and public emblems.

• La SylphideNarrower topic: La Sylphide helped establish the genre's characteristic imagery and theatrical style.

• Michel FokineCompared with: Fokine retained Romantic imagery in Les Sylphides while revising its choreographic conventions.

• Pas de deuxNarrower topic: Its emphasis on the ballerina helped shape the duet’s gendered stage conventions.

• Jules PerrotNarrower topic: Perrot’s best-known choreography belongs to the Romantic ballet repertory.

• Concert danceBroader topic: It shaped the repertory and stage conventions inherited by later concert dance.

• Italian balletRelated: Italian performers helped carry Romantic ballet across European stages.

• Jean-Georges NoverreRelated: Its dramatic ambitions developed in a theatrical tradition Noverre helped reform.

• Character danceRelated: Romantic ballets helped establish contrasting national and folk dances within theatrical narratives.

• August BournonvilleRelated: Bournonville worked during this movement while giving its theatrical ideals a distinct Danish expression.

• Carlotta GrisiNarrower topic: Grisi's early career and signature role emerged during its rise.

• Filippo TaglioniNarrower topic: La Sylphide became one of the movement’s defining works.

• Alicia MarkovaNarrower topic: Markova became a leading twentieth-century interpreter of its surviving repertory.

• Carlo BlasisRelated: Blasis’s career unfolded during the movement’s rise across European stages.

• Fanny ElsslerNarrower topic: Elssler’s career unfolded during this movement, though her vivid character dancing differed from its most ethereal ideal.

• History of balletBroader topic: It marks a stylistic shift from courtly display toward poetic theatrical fantasy.

• Lucile GrahnNarrower topic: Grahn’s rise occurred during this movement’s expansion across European theaters.

• Arthur Saint-LéonNarrower topic: Saint-Léon’s career bridged Romantic ballet and the later theatrical ballet tradition.

• Suzanne FarrellCompared with: Its conventions contrast with the athletic, musically abstract roles Farrell danced for Balanchine.

• Alicia AlonsoNarrower topic: Giselle belongs to this tradition, whose style and dramatic conventions Alonso interpreted.

• Olga SpessivtsevaNarrower topic: Her Giselle was widely associated with the Romantic ballet ideal.