Music and dance 3: great partnerships

City Lit

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Partnering is a key discipline in dance training. By watching the interaction between great dance partners and the music they dance to, we can be absorbed into their characters and feel their emotions as our own. In Romantic and Classical ballet, the names and reputations of great partnerships have come down to us through pictures and reviews documenting their successes. In more modern times, we have film to show us partners telling the story: falling in love, expressing despair or joy, all through movement and gesture - in ballet, in stage musicals, and on the big screen. We will be looking at film clips of ballet and dance old and new to watch how the relationship between the dancers is beamed directly to our emotional centre. Tutor: Pauline Greene [external website].

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Understand something about how ballet and dance partnering works technically- Identify some famous ballet partners from the C19th- Identify some more modern famous dance partnerships- Visually analyse and comment on dance partnering- Understand the rôle of music in danced duets, in the overall plan of a dance performance.

No. However, you may wish to buy some of the music or books recommended in class. We may visit a ballet performance or Company Class in London during the course, but this will be optional, and the cost of the ticket will be in addition to the course fee.

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Subjects

  • Dance
  • Music
  • Ballet

Course programme

Some simple technical terms to describe partnering in dance
Partnering and its structural place in ballets and shows
Some great ballet partnerships of the C19th
Some great partnerships of the C20th in ballet and dance, on stage and screen
Contemporary partnerships.


You will be taught using a range of techniques including short lectures, slide shows and discussions, practical demonstrations on the piano and guided listening sessions. Courses use a variety of materials including audio recordings, DVDs and youtube clips. Between classes, you may like to watch complete ballets or longer extracts from the ballets we study by following the YouTube links given on the weekly handouts. Listening and reading outside class is encouraged and, once enrolled, further online resources will be available via Google Classroom.

Additional information


City Lit offers a wide range of music appreciation classes, as well as related courses in history, art history and philosophy.
Pauline will be teaching on the City Lit Summer School (topics not yet confirmed), and will run a range of classes focusing on opera, music and dance, and introductory classes on a variety of topics, next year.
If you enjoy learning about music you may like to consider our wide range of instrumental classes including piano classes taught in our digital piano suite. All beginners classes are suitable for those who don’t yet read music notation but are keen to learn.

You may also be interested musicianship and practical music classes; please see website or printed course guide for the extensive range of possibilities, or contact the Music department for advice: or (020) 7492 2630.

General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00.
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Music and dance 3: great partnerships

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