# @bostonballet on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-07-28T20:46:46.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Boston Ballet (@bostonballet) — https://gondola.cc/bostonballet

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BALLET 101 // Three Major Styles of Ballet

Discover the different styles of ballet and what makes each unique.

Classical Ballet 🩰
✨ Emphasizes pointe work, traditional ballet movement, and folk or character dance
✨ Tells a story that has a conflict and a resolution
✨ Showcases detailed costumes and ornate scenery that bring the story to life
✨ Example this season: The Sleeping Beauty

Neoclassical Ballet 🩰
✨ Rooted in classical ballet, but incorporates new poses and choreography to the traditional ballet vocabulary
✨ Modern, athletic, and explosive movements with less emphasis on pointe work
✨Abstract storylines that lack linear plots
✨Minimalist costumes, and sets, so as to not distract from the dancers’ movements
✨Example this season: Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering

Contemporary Ballet 🩰
✨Pushes the boundaries of movement, storytelling, and artistic expression within the framework of ballet technique
✨Often performed barefoot rather than in pointe shoes, allowing dancers a greater range of motion
✨Sometimes set to today’s music like electronica, rock, and R&B
✨Typically plotless
✨Example this season: Crystal Pite’s The Seasons’ Canon as part of Winter Experience

Feel like a ballet pro now? Check out our 2025-2026 Season line up to be ready for when tickets go on sale.

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