2. Ballet Origins

Origin

The beginning of the ballet was in the Italian Renaissance, where it was done to entertain royalty during dinner.

The first completa of ballet was "Le Ballet Comique de la Reine" in Paris 1581.

History

The first professional ballet academy was the Académie Royale de Danse, made by the French King Louis XIV in 1661.

History

In the eighteenth century the French dancer Marie Camargo and her rival Marie Sallé begin to shorten their skirts and use flat shoes for dancing and even used Greek tunics.

Marie Camargo Marie Salle

History

In this century Heinel Anne is the first dancer to do a double pirouette.

Gradually they began to work more dramatic expression in ballet.

At the end of the century begins pointe ballet where the dancers were not in points in small parts of the dance because there were still no pointe shoes.

It is in the nineteenth century where romantic ballet begins and where existing techniques are marked.

Anne Heinel