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Ballet first orginated in the early 1400s. It was first seen in Italy.
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BY: Katriel Young
PD 5-Lanrdner
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Catherine de Medic became the queen in France and shared the dancing she had enjoyed in Italy.
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This was the first ballet know of in history. The ballet performed was Le Ballet Comique de la Reine.
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During the late 1600's and the early 1700's King Louis the 14th reigned. He helped strengthen the ballet that Catherine de Medici had previously brought up.
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In this ballet, King Louis XVI danced when he was 14. He played many role including the Sun King.
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The five positions where created by Pierre Beauchamp a dancing master. He created these five positions in the late 1600's.
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Marie Camargo removed the heels from her dance shoes to enable more movement when she danced.
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This was one of the greatest dance companies or schools used to develop outstanding ballet skills.
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During this year, a French choreographer named Jean Georges Noverre said that the dancers were trying to hard to show of technical skill rather than expressing their characters and using feelings in his book. He encouraged less masks costumes and wigs to express the character.
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This was a machine envented to lift a dancer so it look like she is on the top of her toes before a move
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During the 1800s, Marie Taglioni eddited her shoes so that there had leather soles and extra weight on the toe. This was the start of pointe. It was much more painful and bad for you that pointe is now.
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After the French Revolution, heels were permanatly removed from ballet slippers.
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During this romantic period, Giselle and La Syphide were created. These are two classical ballets. This started a spark in arts and music.
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Giselle was first perfomed in 1841 in Paris.
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Tchaikovsky wrote this ballet with no experience with writting ballets in 1875
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In 1892, Tchaikovsky wrote a ballet to the story of the Nutcracker
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This was the great Marht Graham's FIrst Performance. She performed in Xochitl, Serenata Morisca, and Spanish Suite I.
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George Balanchine came to the USA bringing ballet with him!! That was the beginning of ballet in the USA. Look at how it has spread!!
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In San Fransico, modern ballet was born. Isadora Duncan headed up modern ballet. This was right before the 20th century began.
