Roman entertainments had comical dances and acrobatics.
Greek drama used choral dances related to story. Meaningful movements developed to show story action without words {pantomime, Greece}.
Court members wore disguises {disguising} and danced {mumming}.
Villagers, then court, performed Moorish dance {morisco dance}.
First ballet was for Catherine de Medici. Dances combined ballet de cour and Italian opera and had music, dance, plot, and choreography.
He lived 1519 to 1596 and outlined the ballet positions.
Antimasques preceded masques in Stuart England.
He lived 1572 to 1637. At European courts, pageants and dances used masked actors in masques.
He lived 1632 to 1687 and included ballet in French opera.
Lully lived 1632 to 1687. Molière lived 1622 to 1673.
Louis XIV founded the ballet school.
He lived 1639 to 1705 and established the five ballet foot positions.
He lived 1628 to 1677.
She lived 1665 to 1738 and was first woman to appear professionally in ballet as solo female dancer {prima ballerina} {premiere danseuse}.
He lived 1655 to 1729 and was solo dancer {premier danseur} and balletmaster [1700].
He lived 1697 to 1774 and was principal dancer [1715 to 1751].
He lived 1674 to 1748 and recorded the five ballet foot positions. He invented first ballet leaps and turns in air {elevation, Rameau}.
She lived 1710 to 1770.
She lived 1707 to 1756 and first used ballet gestures.
He lived 1727 to 1810. He choreographed ballet d'action. Emotion became more important than plot in choredrame ballets.
He lived 1729 to 1808 and was first great classical ballet dancer.
He lived 1742 to 1806. Frederick Ashton updated the dance [1950].
She lived 1743 to 1802.
He lived 1733 to 1816. From 1775 to 1816, he directed Royal Danish Ballet.
She lived 1767 to 1837.
He lived 1767 to 1837 and founded Russian Imperial Ballet [1801].
He lived 1769 to 1821 and unified music, ballet, and mime.
He lived 1803 to 1878, was Dauberval's student, codified the dance at La Scala opera house, and first used poses.
Toe-dancing and new leaps began.
He lived 1779 to 1854.
He lived 1777 to 1871.
She lived 1817 to 1909.
She lived 1804 to 1884.
She lived 1810 to 1884.
She lived 1819 to 1907. The Danish ballet dismissed her [1841].
He lived 1805 to 1879.
He lived 1810 to 1882 and choreographed and danced at Imperial Theater.
She lived 1819 to 1899.
He lived 1815 to 1870.
He lived 1797 to 1868.
He lived 1818 to 1910 and choreographed at the Imperial Theater.
He lived 1841 to 1903.
He lived 1850 to 1928 and was balletmaster of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes.
He lived 1828 to 1887.
He lived 1834 to 1901.
She lived 1862 to 1928.
He lived 1866 to 1896 and developed ballet notation.
She lived 1666 to 1736.
She lived 1881 to 1931.
He lived 1871 to 1924.
She lived 1885 to 1978.
He lived 1890 to 1942.
She lived 1879 to 1968 and combined theater and dance.
He lived 1890 to 1950. Afternoon of a Faun uses Greek-frieze setting as a tableau.
She lived 1891 to 1972.
He lived 1872 to 1929 and founded Ballets Russes. Ballets Russes included Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Nijinska, Vaslav Nijinsky, Serge Lifan, Ninette de Valois, Leonid Massine, and George Balanchine.
She lived 1895 to 1991.
She lived 1898 to 2001 and founded Royal Ballet [1928].
He lived 1905 to 1986.
She lived 1910 to 2004.
He lived 1901 to 1979.
He lived 1908 to 1987.
He lived 1909 to 1962.
He lived 1886 to 1979.
She lived 1919 to 1991.
He lived 1904 to 1988.
He lived 1879 to 1958. He developed a system {ballet notation} {Kinetographic Laban} {Labanotation} to record ballets and human motions.
She lived 1921 to ? and founded Havana Ballet.
She lived 1942 to ?.
He lived 1936 to ?.
He lived 1938 to 1993.
He lived 1948 to ?.
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