The History of Ballet
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When dance appeared as a popular, and common, form of entertainment in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries performances included mixtures of acrobatics, speech and song. The performances were created on a large scale for those of royalty and on a smaller scale for the more common people.
The entertainment in the court often held that of a political agenda. These dances were used to show off the court'� magnificent appearance and were written and conceived as subtle propaganda. For instance, dances may have been designed to flatter a visiting dignitary, implying the intentions of the host, or the dances could be created to threaten the dignitary with a feeling of power and strength.
A woman by the name of Catherine de Medici took this art with her from England to France and into her marriage to King Henry II. During this time she ordered the creation of the Ballet Conique de la Reine. It was an epic piece lasting five hours, meant to celebrate the marriage of a friend; this Ballet came to be known as the beginning of the HISTORY OF BALLET.
During this period many more epic and influential dances were created. By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a firm foundation for Ballet had...
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