Single Ballerina Blue Music Box
Price: $160.00 Members: $128.00
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Item: 10068033
Description
Single Ballerina Blue Music Box
Handcrafted in Sorrento, Italy, from the finest woods, this elegant, high gloss, blue music box features an inlaid image of a graceful ballerina in mid-pose.
Made with 18-note musical movement, the inner workings can be viewed through a clear glass panel inside. It sits on brass feet 1/4” high.
When opened, the box plays “Swan Lake” from Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet, performed so exquisitely by the American Ballet Theatre at the Met.
- Inlaid wood
- High gloss dark blue finish
- Brass feet
- Plays “Swan Lake”
- 18-note musical movement
- 4.75” W x 4.5” L x 2 ½” H
- Handcrafted in Sorrento, Italy
History
Ballet
In classic or contemporary ballet, dancing may tell a story, express a mood, or simply reflect the music in movement. Ballet as part of staged performances originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th and 16th centuries and from there spread to France. The creation of classical ballet as we know it today occurred during the reign of the art-loving French king Louis XIV in the mid-17th century. During the Romantic era, ballet technique evolved to express new ideas, most notably with women dancing en point, or on their toes, allowing them to appear weightless and otherworldly.
Among the choreographers who helped bring ballet into the modern age by exploring new visual and dramatic styles are George Balanchine, Antony Tudor and—bridging the worlds of classical dance and Broadway—Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins.
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