A research paper based on ballet choreographer. You can use online sources but you have to write thesis, statement and arguemnt in your own words. High school level, MLA format, must be properly cited. Prefer American writters.

Papers should be 5 pages in length, double-spaced with printed, video, and online reference source material cited. The work is not merely a biography of the artist but states a thesis about his/her work. The paper utilizes primary source material through artist statements/essays and video documentation; secondary sources are allowed to complement the research. Students will be graded on a) the accuracy of their research (40%); b) the quality of their writing (dictions, grammar and syntax (10%); c) the critical thinking they demonstrate in interpreting the facts (30%); d) their understanding of the different cultural perspectives (20%)

Choose from the follwing-

BALLET ARTISTS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS

ROMANTIC ERA (end of 18th through mid 19th century)

Marie Taglioni (1804-1884)

August Bournonville (1805-1879)

Jules Perrot (1810-1892)

Jean Coralli (1779-1854)

Carlo Blasis (1797-1878)

Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)

CLASSICAL ERA (mid 19th through early 20th)

Lev Ivanov (1834-1901)

Enrico Cecchetti (1850-1928)

Marius Petipa (1818-1910)

NEO-CLASSICAL, THE BALLETS RUSSES, & 20th CENTURY BALLET

Michael Fokine (1880-1942)

Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)

Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950)

Leonide Massine (1896-1979)

George Balanchine (1905-1983)

Jerome Robbins (1918-1998)

Anthony Tudor (1908-1987)

Rudolph Nuriev (1938-1993)

Michael Baryshnikov (b 1948)

SOVIET BALLET-

Kasian Goleizovsky (1892-1970)

Yuri Grigorovich (b 1927)

21ST CENTURY BALLET CHOREOGRAPHERS

NACHO DUATO (b 1957)

ALEXEI RATMANSKY (b 1968)

CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON (b 1973)

WAYNE MCGREGOR (b 1970)

PETER MARTINS (b 1946)

TWYLA THARP (b 1941)