Ballet - the foundation of dance

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On this blog I'm going to write about dance. The posts will be mainly about different styles of dance, some famous dancers, the history of it and other dance related things. 
Since ballet is the foundation of all technical dance forms, I've decided that my first post should be about ballet.

 Ballet was invented in 1459 in Italy for a royal wedding, however, it became more popular in the 1700s in France when King Louis XIV appeared on a stage as a dancer. His teacher, Pierre Beuchamp was a director of the first ballet training school in Paris and an inventor of the concept of "turnout" which is now known as "five classical positions of the feet".The official terminology and vocabulary of ballet was gradually codified in French over the next 100 years. 
In the beginnings of ballet dance steps were just small hops, slides, curtsies, promenades, and gentle turns. 
Dancing en pointe was made popular in the 1830s by Marie Taglioni.

 Fun fact: After Marie's last performance, the audience was so sad to see her go that a chef took one of her ballet slippers, cooked it, and her most devoted admirers ate it.

 Some of the famous ballets danced to the present day:
-Swan Lake
-The Nutcracker
-Cinderella
-Don Quixote
-Gisellle

 Sources: http://www.sasschoolofdance.com/history-ballet 
https://www.atlantaballet.com/resources/brief-history-of-ballet
https://listverse.com/2011/02/16/top-10-greatest-ballets/

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  1. englishdiary4 listopada 2017 07:16

    You've included some really interesting facts here.
    Try not to copy from the sources - some parts of the text are pasted from the original website.

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