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Roman Empire
In 300ce the Roman Empire dominated the world. Dance became divorced from Poetry, because of the cultural diversity. -
Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Middle Ages
Dance was an important part of life in the middle Ages for aristrocats and common people alike (Amderson, 20). Several different types of dancing that were part of this period. -
Period: Jan 1, 1350 to
The Renaissance
A cultural movement that extended from the 14th to the 17th century. In this period many dances were developped, such as pavane, the galliard, the volta (or lavolta), the courante, sarabande. -
Jan 1, 1489
"Dinner-ballet"
In Italy, a dinner party celebrating the marriage of the duke of Milan in 1489 was produced by Bergonzio di Botto. Dance performances were included as part of the entertainment. From these spectacles emerged the form of theatrical dancing. -
Jan 1, 1570
Academie de Musique et de la Poesie, founded.
An organization founded by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baif and the composer Thibault de Courville. They were important for envisioning theatre as a composite art form uniting the separate disciplines of poetry, music, dance, and stage design (Anderson, 33). -
Period: Jan 1, 1570 to
Women choreographers in Spain
Women in Spain achieved considerable importance as choreographers. They were required to be married, but they possessed great artistic freedom -
Oct 15, 1581
The ballet comique de la Reine
The marriage of Marguerite de Lorraine was the occassion where nobles gathered in the Salle Bourbon, near the Louvre Palace in Paris to witness what promised to be a most splendid entertainment, organized by Catherine de Medici and choreographed by the italian Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx. Considered the first ballet de court, an important early attempt to create an extended choreographic spectacle. -
Orchesographie, written by Thoinot Arbeau
Dance manual written by Thoinot Arbeau, pseudonym of the French priest named Jehan Tabourot, consisting of dialogues between Arbeau and his young pupil Capriol, setting the social standards of etiquette and deportment. -
Nobilta di Dame, written by Fabritio Caroso
Nobilta di Dame is now considered an invaluable document because it contains examples of completely choreographed dances. -
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Choreographic patterns were used to many productions.
Choreographic designs, geometrical floor patterns such as, diamonds, ovals, squares and triangles were used. Adding symbolical meanings to some of these figures. -
Louis XIII, the spirit of fire.
In 1617,in the Ballet de la Delivrance de Renaud worked inspired by Torquato Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata, Louis XIII portrayed the spirit of fire, -
Charles I played leading roles in some masques
The masque was an aristocratic entertainment in which poetry, music and dances were interspersed with contrasting grotesque interludes known as antimasques. -
Professionalism of dance
The grotesque scenes in new works called for performers far more agile than even the most well rehearsed dancing courtier -
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Louis XIV reign
French court ballet reached its peak under Louis XIV, who reigned from 1643 to 1715. -
Louis XIV, first public dancing.
Louis XIV first danced in public at the age of therteen. -
Louis XIV as the Rising Sun
Louis XIV portrayed the Rising Sun in the Ballet de la Nuit -
Lully at services of Louis XIV
Lully entered the service of Louis XIV -
Academie Royale de Danse was founded
In 1661, Louis XIV founded the Academie Royale de Danse -
Academie Royale de Musique founded
In 1669, Louis XIV founded the Academie Royale de Musique, which survives today as the Paris Opera -
Beauchamps stressed some of the fundamentals of ballet
In the seventeenth century Pierre Beauchamps was the foremost dancing master of the era. He stressed some of the fundamentals of ballet, including the five positionsof the feet. -
Pomone
The Academie inaugural production, the opera Pomone -
Mlle de la Fontaine, dance history's first prima ballerina
Mlle de la Fontaine made her debut in a dance sequence of Lully's Le Triomphe de l'Amour in 1681. This prominente role makes it possible to call her dance history's first prima ballerina. -
Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas" premiere
In 1689, Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas" received its premiere. Dancing master Josias Priest choreographed the work. Purcell and Priest collaborated on several subsequent works. -
Choregraphie, ou l'Art de Decrire la Dance
Choregraphie, ou l'Art de Decrire la Dance, notation system that Raoul-Auger Feuillet published in 1700. -
Paris Opera Ballet School
The Paris Opera Ballet School ensured that well-trained dancers would always be available when opened in 1713. -
Les Caracteres de la Danse, choreograph by Francoise Prevost
Francoise Prevost created Les Caracteres de la Danse, her most famous work, in 1715, -
The loves of Mars and Venus
The loves of Mars and Venus, a production of John Weaver, was staged in London. This is cited as the earliest complete ballet to convey its dramatic content entirely through movement, without the use of speech or song. -
Haute Ecole
Horse ballets, now known as haute ecole riding, were considered as an art of gentleman in the 16th century. The Spanish Riding School build for the stallions, an elegant ballroom in 1729. -
Les Caracteres de la Danse, choreograph by Marie Salle
Salle instituted reforms in staging and costuming. Choreograph her own version of Les Caracteres de la Danse and performed it in 1729, creating a sensation by dancing without a mask -
Hippolyte et Aricie, by Jean Phillippe Rameau
Opera-ballet reached its height in the works of Jean Phillippe Rameau. Hippolyte et Aricie made him famous overnight. -
Pygmalion
Marie Salle portrayed a sculptor's statue that magically comes to life. she choreographed it in London in 1734. -
Marie de Camargo retired
Marie de Camargo retired from the Opera in 1751 with the larger pension ever given a dancer up to that time. -
Les Fetes Chinoises
Noverre choreography Les Fetes Chinoises, in 1754, was created for the Paris Opera -Comique. -
Letters on Dancing and Ballets
Noverre continue to be important because of his Letters on Dancing and Ballets. A book on dance aesthetics that remains one of the most influential dance book ever published. -
Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Dancing, written by Gennaro Magri
Gennaro Magri described dancers' stances and movements almost as elements of a painting in his Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Dancing. -
Pierre Gardel became master of the Paris Opera
Pierre Gardel became master of the Paris Opera, held power at that organization until the early nineteenth century. -
La Fille Mal Gardee
Ballet of the eighteenth century, La Fille Mal Gardee, was staged in Bordeaux in 1789 by Jean Dauberval. -
Flore et Zephyre, choreographed by Didelot
In 1796 Didelot choreograph Flore et Zephyre, which became his most celebrated ballet. Didelot could lowered a ballerina to the ground so that she appeared to be poised on tiptoe.
Didelot, choreographer and also fascinated by innovations in stagecraft.
