“Ballet is sight, sound, and motion, the theatrical form that can tell a story without words or convey moods and emotions through music and movement.” As one of the youngest performing arts and one of the most admired, the ballet has been best known for the emotions impacted on audiences throughout the world for over 400 years. Some can create goose bumps all over your body while others send chills up and down your spine. There are some that can leave you sobbing or sometimes even hysterically laughing.

“To dance…is to step out on the great stages of the world…a carpet of music spread under you each night, to flash and soar…to ride violins and trumpets…to feel the magic work.” As perhaps the oldest art form, dance has been understood to have originated from the point in time before sapiens was a species. Actions, such as dancing, were used as a means of communication. They were utilized to share thoughts, emotions, stories, and to entertain.

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Eight years afterward, he founded the Royal Academy of Music. In 1672, both Academies merged together and formed the Royal Academy of Music and Dance (A.K.A. Paris Opera) which is the oldest dancing school in the world. Choreographer Pierre Beuchamp (1636-1705), the inventor of the pirouette, the aerial turn and the five basic positions of the feet, was named “superintendent of the king’s ballets” at Paris Opera.

The first “traditional ballet” was first performed at Catherine’s palace on a Sunday evening dated October 15, 1581. Named “Ballet Comique de la Reine” (The Queen’s Dramatic Ballet), it was performed in honor of Catherine’s sister, Margaret of Lorraine, who was marrying the duke of Joyeuse. It was a form of Ballet de cour, court ballet, which is the ancestor of modern ballet.

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