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In 300ce the Roman Empire dominated the world. Dance became divorced from Poetry, because of the cultural diversity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Women in Spain achieved considerable importance as choreographers. They were required to be married, but they possessed great artistic freedom
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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.
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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.
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Nobilta di Dame is now considered an invaluable document because it contains examples of completely choreographed dances.
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Choreographic designs, geometrical floor patterns such as, diamonds, ovals, squares and triangles were used. Adding symbolical meanings to some of these figures.
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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,
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The masque was an aristocratic entertainment in which poetry, music and dances were interspersed with contrasting grotesque interludes known as antimasques.
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The grotesque scenes in new works called for performers far more agile than even the most well rehearsed dancing courtier
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French court ballet reached its peak under Louis XIV, who reigned from 1643 to 1715.
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Louis XIV first danced in public at the age of therteen.
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Louis XIV portrayed the Rising Sun in the Ballet de la Nuit
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Lully entered the service of Louis XIV
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In 1661, Louis XIV founded the Academie Royale de Danse
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In 1669, Louis XIV founded the Academie Royale de Musique, which survives today as the Paris Opera
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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.
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The Academie inaugural production, the opera Pomone
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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.
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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.
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Choregraphie, ou l'Art de Decrire la Dance, notation system that Raoul-Auger Feuillet published in 1700.
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The Paris Opera Ballet School ensured that well-trained dancers would always be available when opened in 1713.
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Francoise Prevost created Les Caracteres de la Danse, her most famous work, in 1715,
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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.
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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.
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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
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Opera-ballet reached its height in the works of Jean Phillippe Rameau. Hippolyte et Aricie made him famous overnight.
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Marie Salle portrayed a sculptor's statue that magically comes to life. she choreographed it in London in 1734.
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Marie de Camargo retired from the Opera in 1751 with the larger pension ever given a dancer up to that time.
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Noverre choreography Les Fetes Chinoises, in 1754, was created for the Paris Opera -Comique.
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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.
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Gennaro Magri described dancers' stances and movements almost as elements of a painting in his Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Dancing.
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Pierre Gardel became master of the Paris Opera, held power at that organization until the early nineteenth century.
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Ballet of the eighteenth century, La Fille Mal Gardee, was staged in Bordeaux in 1789 by Jean Dauberval.
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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.
