History of Dance

  • Jan 7, 1400

    Ballet shoes

    Ballet shoes
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    Ballet 1st time to create ballet slippers!</a>
    As far back as the early 1400s in Renaissance Italy the ballet was performed. “Balletos,” as they were called, were performed with ballet shoes that actually still carries on in this centry.
  • Sep 28, 1451

    Domenico Da Piancenza

    Domenico Da Piancenza
    First dancing mastersBecame one of the first dancing masters
  • Mar 17, 1553

    Catherine de Medicis

    Catherine de Medicis
    Introduces ballet in Italy Catherine married a King of France Henri II, in 1553, she introduced the ballet culture prevalent in Italy .
  • Mar 24, 1573

    Le Ballet Des Polonais

    Le Ballet Des Polonais
    The reason he created it
    By Balthasar de beaujoyeuix created to celebrate the arrival of polish dignitaries.
  • Aug 24, 1581

    Le Ballet Comique de la Rein

    Le Ballet Comique de la Rein
    The Queens ballet comedyThe Queen’s Ballet Comedy and it was performed in Paris in 1581.
  • Ballet First school By Louis

    Ballet First school By Louis
    1st ballet school!!!In 1661 Louis established the Académie Royale de Danse in a room of the Louvre, the world's first ballet school.
  • King Louis XIV

    King Louis XIV
    King LouieXIVIn 1661 King Louis XIV opened the Academie Royale de Danse', which was the first school of ballet.
  • History's of ballets clothing

    History's of ballets clothing
    ballets did not have actual clothingAt that time there were no clothes designed for dancers so they had to perform in regular garments which were not suitable for exercising some acrobatic elements.
  • Letters On Dancing And ballets

    Letters On Dancing And ballets
    Notable ballet!!The most notable ballet of the eighteenth century was Letters on Dancing and Ballets in 1760.
  • La Sylphide

    La Sylphide
    romatic romatic balletOne of the first romantic ballets, La Sylphide was first performed in Paris in 1832
  • Anna Pavlova

    Anna Pavlova
    Anna's break through! Her breakthrough performance was in The Dying Swan in 1905,
  • Russes

    Russes
    Russes!!!The Ballets Russes was a ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev.
  • Rudolf

    Rudolf
    Rudoph and balletIn December 1945 Rudolf’s mother managed to smuggle all of her children into a ballet performance with just one ticket. The moment Rudolf saw the ballerina on stage, he made up his mind once and for all , he wanted to be a ballet dancer
  • Jose Limo'n

    Jose Limo'n
    Jose Limon founded his companyJose Limon was born jan.12.1908 in Mexico and later came to the U.S. Later in 1947 he establish his own company with Humphrey as artistic director.
  • First African Ballerinas!

    First African Ballerinas!
    Became one of the few African American BallerinasDelores Brown became one of six black students in her ballet school.
  • Bergonzio Di Batta

    Bergonzio Di Batta
    credited for the first balletItalin maestro of entertainment and credited for the ''first ballet'.
  • First male Balet dancer

    First male Balet dancer
    Male ballet dancerRudolf Nureyev first appearance on stage was in 1961 at the Palais Garnier.
  • Judith Ann Jamison

    Judith Ann Jamison
    Judith Judith Ann Jamison trained early in dance and music and attended the Philadelphia Dance Academy before performing with American Ballet Theatre in 1964.
  • Faye Arthurs

    Faye Arthurs
    Faye join the ballet in NewYorkFaye Arthur join the school of New York City Ballet, in the fall of 1997
  • Sara Adams

    Sara Adams
    In our time!!Sara Adams is a member of New York City Ballet’s corps de ballet in todays centry.