Зараждане на професионалното балетно изкуство в Италия и Франция
The origins of professional ballet in Italy and France

Summary/Abstract: The article will reveal how the folk dances practiced in the 15th and 16th century in Western Europe served as a foundation for the development of ballroom dances. I shall review individually each of the ballroom dances described by the first dance masters and dance theoreticians, which subsequently serve as a basis for the establishment of the rules for the performance of classical dances. The origins of first Ballet Guides. It took centuries for classical ballet to develop – no less than four centuries were needed – from the 15th to the 19th 138 century. In the 17th century Paris became the lawmaker of dancing recognized worldwide due to the fact that the French capital was where the pillars of beauty and exquisiteness were built and solidified with the Dance Academy created by Louis XIV in 1661.

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