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Ballet
The word ballet comes from French. King Louis XIV invented ballet in 1459 in Italy for a wedding. At the banquet, the performers did dances representing the dishes being served. -
Ballet de la Nuit (Ballet of the Night)
Ballet de la Nuit (Ballet of the Night) is a ballet by Jean-Baptiste Boesset, Jean de Cambefort, and Michel Lambert featuring music by Jean-Baptiste Lully. It is ballet de cour, premiered February 23, 1653 at the Salle du Petit-Bourbon. It took 13 hours to perform and debuted fourteen-year-old Louis XIV as Apollo, the Sun King (Le Roi Soleil). -
- Isadora Duncan and the birth of Modern Dance
Isadora Duncan’s first European performance took place in London. Isadora Duncan made two lasting contributions to dance. She liberated herself and those who succeeded her from the constricting paraphernalia of corsets, petticoats, long sleeves, high collars and heavy skirts worn by the women of her day. Her second, equally important innovation, was to insist that her art merited concomitantly great music. She danced to Gluck, Wagner and Bach and even Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. -
Ninjinsky
In 1904, at the age of 14, Nijinsky was selected by the great choreographer Marius Petipa to dance a principal role in what proved to be the choreographer's last ballet, La Romance d'un Bouton de rose et d'un Papillon. -
Fred Astaires first appearance
In 1906 Fred Astaire became a popular dancer and musical comedian. -
Ballet Russes first appearance
The ballet russes first appeared on stage in 1909. -
Anna Pavlova was a famous Russian prima ballerina and choreographer. The company she founded in 1911 was the first to tour ballet around the world.
was a famous Russian prima ballerina and choreographer. The company she founded in 1911 was the first to tour ballet around the world. -
Graham presents her first independent concert
Graham presents her first independent concert on 18 April at the 48th Street Theater in New York City, assisted by the Martha Graham Concert Group. The New York Herald Tribune noted "Miss Graham gave a successful performance, showing ability to present a mood or a picture, with the assets of grace, agility, effective poses and well chosen costumes." -
The Dance Explosion
At Judson Church off Washington Square in New York’s Greenwich Village, a three-hour co-operatively produced dance performance was presented free of charge. The public debut of this loosely organised group of choreographers would come to be known as the Judson Dance Theatre. It gave birth to post modern dance, although it would be another fifteen years before that brand name could be affixed. -
Ballet Boom
At Le Bourget airport outside Paris, Rudolf Nureyev, who was being sent back to the Soviet Union in the middle of a European tour by the Kirov Ballet, suddenly threw himself at a pair of startled gendarmes and begged for asylum. The incident was front page news, and Nureyev was an instant celebrity about to jolt Western ballet into the contemporary world. -
The Dance Explosion
The Dance ExplosionAt Judson Church off Washington Square in New York’s Greenwich Village, a three-hour co-operatively produced dance performance was presented free of charge. The public debut of this loosely organised group of choreographers would come to be known as the Judson Dance Theatre. It gave birth to post modern dance, although it would be another fifteen years before that brand name could be affixed. -
Break Dancing
Break Dancing, also called b-boying or b-girling is a type of dance performaned by people of a hip hop culture background created in south Bronx and is now a really popular genre of dance and music. -
Hip Hop
hip hop was created, an underground urban dance/ music genre had rocked the world based around south Bronx in new york city -
Joaquín Pedraja
Joaquín Pedraja Reyes "Joaquín Cortés" is a Spanish classically trained ballet and flamenco dancer. Joaquin Cortés is a Spanish flamenco dancer. A native of Córdoba, Cortés showed interest in dancing from an early age. Cortés and his family moved to Madrid in 1981. Soon after moving to Madrid, he began to take formal dancing lessons and studying seriously. -
Gulliem
In 1983 Guillem won the gold medal at the Varna International Ballet Competition, which later in the year earned her her first solo role, dancing the Queen of the Dryads in Rudolf Nureyev's staging of Don Quixote.