Ballet Ballads

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Ballet Ballads is a pioneering 1940s American musical theatre work by composer Jerome Moross that blends ballet, folk influences, and sung narrative into a series of dance-driven story pieces.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf composer
musical theatre work
stage work
composer Jerome Moross
countryOfOrigin United States
era mid-20th-century American musical theatre
firstPerformanceDate 1948
firstPerformanceLocation New York City
form one-act ballets with sung narration
genre ballet
dance theatre
folk-influenced music
musical theatre
hasChoreography yes
hasPart Riding Hood Revisited
Susanna and the Elders
The Eccentricities of Davy Crockett
Willie the Weeper
hasStyle narrative ballet sequences
through-composed musical numbers
historicalSignificance early example of concept-driven dance musical
pioneering American dance-musical hybrid
influencedBy American folk music
ballet tradition
intendedMedium stage
lyricsBy John Latouche
musicBy Jerome Moross
narrativeTechnique sung narrative instead of spoken dialogue
notableFeature integration of ballet and sung narrative
pioneering blend of dance and musical theatre
use of American folk elements
notableWork Ballet Ballads
originalLanguage English
primaryArtFormsCombined dance
music
theatre
productionType off-Broadway production
setting various American folk and legendary contexts
structure series of dance-driven story pieces
targetAudience theatre audiences
timePeriod 1940s
usesVocalEnsemble yes
workOf Jerome Moross

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Jerome Moross notableWork Ballet Ballads
Jerome Moross notableWork Ballet Ballads
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