Pointe technique

The pointe or en pointe (French pointed) is a movement in ballet technique, which is performed in special pointe shoes. Together with the tutu Tutu is one of the top dance since the end of the 19th century ( cliché ) idea that one has of a ballerina.

The Pointe revolutionized the ballet of the 19th century. It was first used in the time of its creation in 1830 only as a soloist, artistic contribution, but soon became the technical basis of the corps de ballet. In general, tip the dancers dance remains reserved. Men dance rarely in rolls "en travesty " on top.

Due to the construction of the pointe shoes, it is possible with them to dance on tiptoe. With the top dance the apparent overcoming of gravity was dominant in European ballet history. Technical difficulties should be invisible by mastery.

Early forms of the top dance already existed in the 17th century, such as Marie Camargo, however, still rather in connection with the jumping and the spins. The top contemporary dance is attributed to Marie Taglioni, the complete danced the ballet La Sylphide (1832 ) on tiptoe. Previously Ballett deposits have been partially danced at the Paris Opera on top, such as the nuns Ballet in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable (1831). Newspapers mentioned at that time that several ballerinas " fantastic toes " or would be " fallen from the top".

With the top dance took place the final separation between the craft of the actor and the dancer. For both the minuet had previously been the foundation of the movement technique, and actors were still involved at the beginning of the 19th century ballets.

From an opposition to the Pointe, which had been developing since about 1900 from the reform efforts of the dance teacher François Delsarte, or the neo-classical conceptions of the dancer Isadora Duncan, created new forms and techniques of stage dance, see interpretive dance.