Category: ballet...

faithfully using your season tickets to the ballet and basketball
studying ballet for its discipline and drama
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. (Martha Graham)
ballet was first a dance to mirror noble deportment and manners, emerging as a theatrical form
operas with ballet divertissements, suites of ballet numbers used as interludes
the introduction of pointework to the dance vocabulary, making the ballerina a supreme or ideal stage figure
the Ballets Russes, New York City Ballet, the Royal Ballet, and Royal Danish Ballet
for the first 100 years, ballet was performed by male courtiers as an amateur entertainment
Marius Peripa's "The Nutcracker," created in 1892, is by far the most popular ballet in the world today.
For ballets to survive, the steps must be written down, or notated. One of the most popular notation methods was devised by Rudolf and Joan Benesh in the 1940s.
Ballet began in Italy and it was taken to France in 1533 by Catherine de Medicis, who married a French prince. In 1661, Louis XIV founded the first ballet school, L'Academie Royale de Danse.