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Sep 21, 1393
Bal des Ardents
Charles VI king of France at the time and his friends descided to dance the moresca. They dressed and paited themselves to look like savages and were all chained together. The duke of Orleans leaned in close to look and set them all on fire. The king escaped because he had slipped his chains to talk to the dutchess -
Period: Sep 27, 1400 to
Renaissance Era
Rebirth
Artistcally light
Life -
Sep 20, 1570
Academie de Musique et de la Poesis founded
Founded by Jean Antoine de Baif and Thibault de Courville -
Oct 15, 1581
Comique de la Rein
Ballet in honor of a wedding
Choreographed by Balthasar de Beaujoyeux
Hosted by Catherine de Medici -
Orchesographie published
Dance Manuel
Written by Thoinot Arbue -
Ballet de la Delivrance de Renaud
Louis XIII played spirit of fire -
Ballet de la Felicite
Ballet in honor of Louis XIV being born -
Period: to
King Louis XIV Reign
French King -
Ballet de la Nuit
Louis XIV portrayed the Rising Sun -
Academie Royale de Danse founded
Founded by Louis XIV -
Academie Royale de Musique founded
Still survives today as the Paris Opera -
Louis XIV stopped dancing
Due to age, physical fitness, and a critic -
Pomone
Paris Opera's first production
Held on a tennis court -
Dido and Aeneas
Choreographed by Henery Purcell
Premired at Josias Priest's boarding school -
First Prima Ballerina retired
Mille de La Fontaine
Debuted in Lully's "Le Triomphe de' la Amore" -
Choreographie
Raou- Aunger Feuillet wrote dance notation
Choreographie ou'l Art de Decrire la Dance -
Paris Opera Ballet School opens
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Les Coracteres de la Danse
Choreographed by Franciose Prevost
Her best known work -
The Loves of Mars and Venus
London
Earliest complete ballet
Choreographed by John Weaver -
Hippolyte et Aricie
Set that made Jean Phillippe Rameau famous -
Les Indes Galantes
Set Jean Phillippe Rameau was most known for -
Marie Camargo retired
Franciose Prevost pupil
Danced for Paris Opera Ballet -
Les Fetes Chinoises
Ballet
Paris Opera
Chinese influenced
Choreographed by Jean Georges Noverre -
Letters on Dancing in Ballets
Most influential dance book ever created
Written by Jean Georges Noverre -
The Whims of Cupid and the Ballet Master
Ballet
Royal Danish Ballet
Worlds oldest complete ballet that is still performed today -
Pierre Gardel
Ballet master for Paris Opera Ballet for 1787 -
Flore et Zeohyre
Ballet
Choreographed by Charles Didelot
Flew dancers across stage with wires -
Period: to
Hayday of Romantic Ballet Era
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Robert le Diablo
Choreographed by Giacomo Meyerbeer
Multiple castrophities
Powerful opera music -
La Sylphide
Choregraphed by Filippo Taglioni
Performed by Marie Taglioni -
Royal Danish Ballet La Sylphide
August Bournonville Danish choreographer
Stared Lucile Grahn -
Giselle
Cerlotta Grisi was Giselle
Adalphe Adam did the score
Jules Perrot co-choreographer also Grisi's lover -
Pas de Quartet
Taglioni, Cerrito, Grisi, Grahn
Performed at Her Majesty's Theatre in London
Perrot -
Don Quixote
Choreographed by Marius Petipa -
Daughter of Pharoh
Choreographed by Marius Petipa -
Coppelia
Last Romantic Ballet of the era
Comedy
Choreographer- Arthur Saint-leon
Score- Leo Delibes
Swanilda- Bozzachi Giusepina
Frantz- Eugenie Fiocre -
La Bayadere
Choreographed by Marius Petipa -
Sleeping Beauty
Choreographed by Marius Petipa
Score by Tchaikovsky -
The Nutcracker
Choreographed by Marius Petipa
Score by Tchaikovsky -
Serpentine Dance
Loie Fuller multi media light dance with silk -
Sawn Lake
Choreographed by Marius Petipa
Score by Tchaikovsky -
Raymonda
Choreographed by Marius Petipa -
Dying Swan
Choreographed by Fokine
Peformed by Anna Pavlova -
Period: to
Ballet Russes
Sergie Diaghilev created the company
Had multiple choreographers
Used abtract artists -
FireBird
Choergraphed bt Fokine
Performed by Ballet Russe -
Afternoon of the Faun
Choergraphed by Nijinsky
creepy faun dance, 2d -
The Rite of Spring
Chroegraphed by Nijinsky
Performed by the Ballet Russe -
Parade
Choerographed by Massine
Performed by the Ballet Russe
One act ballet about the world fair
Picasso set designs -
Apollo
Choerographed by Balanchine
1st neo-classical ballet -
Prodigal Son
Choergraphed by Balanchine -
Heretic
Martha Graham -
Oklahoma
Agnes de mille choerographed -
Fancy Free
Jerome Robbins "Show doctor" -
Appalachine Springs
Choerographed by Martha Graham -
Night Journey
Martha Graham -
West Side Story
Jerome Robbins (allows NYCB to perform) -
Jewels
Chroegraphed by Balanchine -
Esplanade
Paul Taylor
based on pedestrian movement -
In the Upper room
Twyla Tharp -
Tensil Involvement
Alwin Nikolias
Material hanging everywhere and dancers change the shape -
I don't believe in outer space
Choreographed by William Forsythe -
Witch Dance
Mary Wigman
Solo artist