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What are the changes between pantomime ballet and traditional ballet?

Advocating "pantomime ballet" or "plot ballet" was undoubtedly a great change to the current situation of ballet at that time. In fact, Norwell can't help criticizing the previous ballet in an extreme way, and seriously said: "... don't do those flips, prances and complicated dance steps;" Give up posturing and focus on expressing feelings and simple charm, and strive to improve expressive force; We should devote ourselves to the sublime pantomime and never forget that it is the soul of art. It is reasonable to inject the soul into the duet; The March of dance steps should highlight cheerful emotions, and the deployment and arrangement of various postures should be guided by genius; Throw away those cold masks, they are just poor plagiarism of nature, which can only cover up your appearance and drown your soul; Get rid of those huge wigs and huge hair accessories, they will only make your head lose the correct proportion to your body; Get rid of that hard and stiff whale bone skirt, it can only make the beauty of your body unable to express, distort your posture, lose your elegance, and make the outline that your upper body must have in various postures disappear. " It can be said that advocating "pantomime" is the core driving force of Novell's ballet innovation, and the implementation of "pantomime" will inevitably change the formal characteristics of ballet at that time: from masks to hair accessories, from whale bone skirts to postures. ...