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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Character+dance%22">"Character dance"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Character+dance%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Character+dance%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Character+dance%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Character+dance%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Character+dance%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2009</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Character dance</b> is a specific subdivision of <a href="/wiki/Ballet" title="Ballet">classical dance</a>. It is the stylized representation of a traditional folk or national dance, mostly from European countries, and uses movements and music which have been adapted for the theater. </p><p>Character dance is integral to much of the <a href="/wiki/Classical_ballet" title="Classical ballet">classical ballet</a> repertoire. A good example of character dance within ballet is the series of national dances which take place at the beginning of Act II of <i><a href="/wiki/Swan_Lake" title="Swan Lake">Swan Lake</a></i>. The ballet <i><a href="/wiki/Don_Quixote_(ballet)" title="Don Quixote (ballet)">Don Quixote</a></i> also features many character variations based on traditional Spanish dances. Popular character dance adaptations for ballet also include the national dances of Hungary , Russia, Poland, Italy and Spain: <a href="/wiki/Cs%C3%A1rd%C3%A1s" title="Csárdás">csárdás</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mazurka" title="Mazurka">mazurka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tarantella" title="Tarantella">tarantella</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flamenco" title="Flamenco">flamenco</a>, etc. </p><p>One of the best known schools that incorporate character dance to teaching syllabus is <a href="/wiki/Vaganova_Ballet_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="Vaganova Ballet Academy">Vaganova Ballet Academy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Outside of Russia and the former republics of the late Soviet Union, there is little training in the art of character dance. However, it is still widely taught in the United Kingdom and Australia and in Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary) where it is integral to the training of students at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Ballet_School" title="Royal Ballet School">Royal Ballet School</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Ballet_School" title="Australian Ballet School">Australian Ballet School</a>. It is also taught as a separate skill within the graded examinations syllabus of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Academy_of_Dance" title="Royal Academy of Dance">Royal Academy of Dance</a>, Statni Konzervator Praha. Most performing companies or schools elsewhere are not familiar with the history or technique of this style. Therefore, the term <i>character dance</i> is often used in misleading ways that have no bearing to the original definition in ballet terminology. </p><p>Yuri Slonimsky writes in his book <i>The Bolshoi Ballet</i> (Second edition 1960, p.8) on the history of character dance: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>....The Moscow theater thrived because at the beginning it was free from Court tutelage...another important factor was the popularity of various fairs and festivals among the Moscovites. It was here, at the turn of the 19th century that a new genre came into being-one inspired by the national comic opera-dance scenes suggested by folk festivals, games,Yule-tide, Shrovetide Festivals, etc. These dances were created by Vasily Balashov, a former inmate of the Orphanage, soloist of the Court Stage at St. Petersburg and choreographer of the Petrovsky Theatre in Moscow. Petersburg's choreographers Ivan Valberg, A. August, and others after them, borrowed and developed Balashov's methods. And in 1812-14 Russian folk dances were successfully shown by Charles Didelot and his colleagues in a "Russian Divertissement" at King's Theatre in London.</p></blockquote> <p>Folk traditions have been incorporated into what is known as ballet for centuries but it was not until <a href="/w/index.php?title=Aleksandr_Shirayev&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aleksandr Shirayev (page does not exist)">Aleksandr Shirayev</a>, Assistant to <a href="/wiki/Marius_Petipa" title="Marius Petipa">Marius Petipa</a>, that character dance became a unique and codified art-form that takes its rightful place as an integral part of classical ballet. </p><p>Character dances are usually performed in shoes or boots, with a suede sole and a small heel. 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