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ballet
Theatrical dance in which a formal academic technique (the danse d'é cole) is combined with music, costume, and stage scenery. Developed from court productions of the Renaissance, ballet was renewed under Louis XIV, who established France's Acadé mie Royale de Danse in 1661, where Pierre Beauchamp developed the five ballet positions. Early ballets were often accompanied by singing and were often incorporated into opera-ballets by such composers as J.-B. Lully. In the 18th cent. J.-G. Noverre and G. Angiolini separately developed the dramatic ballet (ballet d'action) to tell a story through dance steps and mime, a reform echoed in C. W. Gluck's music. Significant developments in the early 19th cent. included pointe work (balance on the extreme tip of the toe) and the emergence of the prima ballerina, exemplified by M. Taglioni and F. Elssler. In the late 19th and early 20th cent. Russia became the center of ballet production and performance, through such innovators as S. Diaghilev, A. Pavlova, V. Nijinsky, M. Petipa, and M. Fokine; great ballets were composed by P. Tchaikovsky and I Stravinsky. Since then, ballet schools in Great Britain and the U.S. have elevated ballet in those countries to Russia's level and greatly increased its audience. See also American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Ballets Russes, Bolshoi Ballet, New York City Ballet, Royal Ballet.
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