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Sep 24, 1393
Bal De Ardents
Charles VI almost died beause they covered themselves in flamable pitch as costuming. -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Renaissance Dances
Pavane: ceremonious
Galliard:lively with kicking and leaping
Courante: swift with running and gliding
Volta: lifting
Sarbande: low, considered lewd -
Sep 24, 1400
Domenica Piacenza
wrote the first surving treatise on dance -
Sep 24, 1489
First Dinner Ballet
produced by Bergonzio di Botto in celebration of Duke of Milan's wedding -
Period: Jan 1, 1570 to
Female Choreographers Recognized
Leonora Rica , Germana Ortis , Ana de Medina, Josefa de Cespedes , Juana Valentin de Medina , and Felipa de Francisca -
Sep 24, 1570
Academie de Musique et de la Poesie
founded by poet Jean-Antoine be Baif and composer Thibault de Courville -
Oct 15, 1581
Ballet Comique de la Reine
Catherine de Medici ( Henri III's Mother ) had Beaujoyeulx choreograph a production for Marguerite de Lorraine's Wedding -
Orchesographie
manual of dance and manners -
Nobilta de Dame
Fabritio Caruso's publication of manners and dances -
Ballet de Deliverance de Renaud
King Louis played the spirit of fire, inspired by Tasso's poem Gerusalemme Liberata -
Ballet des Fees de la Foret de Saint-Germain
required more agile dancers, promoting the professionalization of dance -
Period: to
King Louis XIV's Life
life was a production in Louis kingdom -
Ballet de la Felicite
Louis first dance as a 13 year old boy -
Ballet de la Nuit
Louis portrayed as the sun -
Period: to
Lully working for Louis XIV
Composer for the kings productions and such a good a comedian he could make the king cry with laughter -
Academie Royale de Danse
Founded by louis -
Las Plaisirs de L'Ile Enchantee
3 day festival involving music, dance, drama, fireworks, mock combats,and banquets. -
Academie Royale de Musique
founded after his Royale Academie de Danse was disbanned and is still around today as the Paris Opera -
Louis stops dancing
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Pomone
worlds oldest ballet, performed on a tennis court -
Priest Pere Menestrier
Jesuit priest who wrote about dance -
Period: to
Mlle De La Fontaine's Career
first prima ballerina -
Le Triomphe de l'Amore
Lully's ballet, Debut for Mlle Fontaine -
Dido and Aeneas
Henry Purcell's opera chreographed by Josias Preist -
Haute Ecole
Grande ballroom built for horse ballets in Vienna
