Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form.

The New Romantic scene had developed in the London nightclubs Billy's and The Blitz and was associated with bands such as Duran Duran, Japan, Ultravox, Visage, Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Soft Cell, Spandau Ballet, ABC and Culture Club.

Both the school and the ballet company developed quickly, becoming established at Sadler's Wells theatre as the Sadler's Wells Ballet School and Company.

Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova ( pronounced vah-GAH-naw-vah ) () ( July 6, 1879-November 5, 1951 ) was a Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method-the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old Imperial Ballet School ( today the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet ) under the Premier Maître de Ballet Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century, though mostly throughout the 1880s and 1890s.

Her teaching combined the elegant, refined style of the Imperial Ballet which Vaganova had been taught by Enrico Cecchetti with more vigorous dancing developed in the Soviet Union.

* Agrippina Vaganova ( 1879 – 1951 ), Ballet master of the Kirov Ballet from 1931-1937 was an outstanding pedagogue who developed the Vaganova method.

Boston Ballet ’ s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy ( 1980 – 1984 ), Bruce Marks ( 1985 – 1997 ), and Anna-Marie Holmes ( 1997 – 2000 ).

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

Remember how by lack of two big theaters Chicago missed the first visit of the Royal Danish Ballet??

Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, famous for classic purity of technique, begins its first U.S. tour in New York ( through Sept. 30 ).

The first DanceWriting textbook, Sutton Movement Shorthand, The Classical Ballet Key, Key One, was produced in December, 1973.

By mid-1892 Satie had composed the first pieces in a compositional system of his own making (), had provided incidental music to a chivalric esoteric play ( two ), had had his first hoax published ( announcing the premiere of, an anti-Wagnerian opera he probably never composed ), and had broken with Péladan, starting that autumn with the Uspud project, a " Christian Ballet ", in collaboration with.

" The later years of the Ballets Russes were often considered too " intellectual ", too " stylish " and seldom had the unconditional success of the first few seasons, although younger choreographers like George Balanchine hit their stride with the Ballet Russes.

* June 28 – Ballet Giselle first presented by the Ballet du Théâtre de l ' Académie Royale de Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris, France.

In 1672, following his retirement from the stage, Louis XIV made Lully the director of the Académie Royale de Musique ( Paris Opera ) in which the first professional ballet company, the Paris Opera Ballet, arose.

Gautier was a celebrated abandonnée who yields or abandons himself to something of the Romantic Ballet, writing several scenarios, the most famous of which is Giselle, whose first interpreter, the ballerina Carlotta Grisi, was the great love of his life.

Some of Bulgaria's most famous operatic singers, such as Nicolai Ghiaurov and Ghena Dimitrova, have made their first appearances on the stage of the National Opera and Ballet.

They were initiated in 1992 by then Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn and the first recipient was Gweneth Lloyd, co-founder of Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

Fiocre in the Ballet La Source, exhibited in the Salon of 1868, was his first major work to introduce a subject with which he would become especially identified, dancers.

On March 5, 1942, Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first performed in the city's Opera and Ballet House by the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra conducted by S. A. Samosud.

* The ballet Pomona, with music by Constant Lambert, choreography by Frederick Ashton and scenery and costumes by Vanessa Bell, first performed by the Vic-Wells Ballet at the Sadler's Wells Theatre on 17 January 1933.

Tony Hadley, of Spandau Ballet, was the first to record his vocal, while a section sung by Status Quo was deemed unusable, and replaced with section comprising Paul Weller, Sting, and Glenn Gregory.

Other work included accompanying the Bolshoi Ballet on their first British tour in 1956.

Zawinul's " Unknown Soldier " featured performances by jazz / classical trumpet veteran Wilmer Wise and singers Yolande Bavan, Joshie Armstrong and Chapman Roberts ( as well as English horn contributed by Andrew White III, a cross-disciplinary multi-instrumentalist who was not only the oboist for the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra but also played bass guitar for both Stevie Wonder and The Fifth Dimension ) The album also featured Zawinul's first use of a synthesizer ( an instrument with which he would become synonymous within jazz ) and of sound effects.

For the first time in four hundred years of world Passion Play history, the people in Negombo, ( Sri Lanka ) mostly Catholics witnessed an entirely innovative change concerning the Biblical Content and the Form of the Passion play tradition with the successful dramatic presentation of a Passion play performance in Ballet style titled “ Tharakayano ” on 29th Sunday April at Kadolkele grounds Negombo.

Nearly two hundred young boys and girls perform various characters in ' Tharakayano ', the first ever Sri-Lankan Passion play in Ballet style.

Act 3 scene 2 of Robert ( the ' Ballet of the Nuns ') at the Paris Opéra ( Salle Le Peletier ), 1832 The name Giacomo Meyerbeer first became known internationally with his opera Il crociato in Egitto — premiered in Venice in 1824 and produced in London and Paris in 1825 ; incidentally it was the last opera ever written to feature a castrato, and to require keyboard accompaniment for recitatives.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Marsden's mother, Linda Marsden, is a former fashion model, and his father, Myles Marsden, is a former Premier danseur of the Yugoslav National Ballet and Founder of the first regional ballet company in New England called State Ballet of Rhode Island .< ref >

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

Before being exported to France, the famous Ballet dance genre also originated in Italy.

Ballet originated in Italy at weddings.

* Ballet originated as courtroom dance in Italy, then flourished in France and Russia before spreading across Europe and abroad.

After retiring from the stage she lived in Italy and served on the examining board of La Scala Ballet School until four months before she died.

From 1995 to 1998, she served as the director and choreographer of the company MaggioDanza in Florence, Italy, moving on to become resident choreographer of the Ballet de Lorraine in Nancy, France, in 1999, where she was to remain until 2002.

Away from The Royal Ballet, she toured Italy, North America and Canada with Wayne Eagling's group, ' Stars of the Royal Ballet ', and was invited to join Irek Mukhamedov for the debut performances of his company ' Irek Mukhamedov and Friends ' in 1992.

Born Odette Bedogni in Bracciano, Lazio, Italy, as a young girl the family moved to Milan where she studied ballet at " La Scala " Ballet School for seven years.

Born and trained as a dancer in his native Italy, he is known today as the Father of Romantic Ballet.

In 1979, Boston Ballet opened the Nervi Festival in Italy, and in 1980 was the first American dance company to perform in the People's Republic of China.

In 1983, Boston Ballet presented Don Quixote on Broadway with Rudolf Nureyev as special guest artist, after touring the United States, Mexico, France, and Italy.

Disney then gave Hench season tickets to the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo with backstage access so he could learn more about it.

In 1994, Birgit Scherzer, then director and choreographer of the Saarbrücken Staatstheater Ballet in Germany used the Hauser story as the basis for a ballet Kasper Hauser which she presented at the Saarbrücken Staatstheater.

She then collaborated with actress Neve Campbell on a screenplay named The Company ( 2003 ), about the inner workings of Chicago ’ s Joffrey Ballet, which was directed by her old friend Robert Altman.

He was born in London and trained at the Royal Ballet School for 3 years and then at Italia Conti Academy for a further 3 years as a singer / dancer / actor.

In 1933 he went to London to study under Ninette de Valois at the Vic-Wells Ballet Ballet School and was soon in the corps de ballet of Coppelia, then as an understudy to Anton Dolin.

Lifar, then on tour in Australia with Wassily de Basil's Original Ballet Russe, offered Nolan the job after a chance encounter with his abstract work.

De Mille began her association with the fledgling American Ballet Theatre ( then called the Ballet Theatre ) in 1939, but her first significant work, Rodeo ( 1942 ) with the score by Aaron Copland, was staged for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

Following the assassination of the Bolshevik revolutionary Sergey Kirov in 1934, the then Soviet Ballet, was renamed the Kirov Ballet a name which is most commonly used to identify the company to this day.

At age 15 he played horn professionally with the American Ballet Theatre ( 1943 ) followed by an appointment as principal hornist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ( 1943 – 5 ), and then the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York, where he stayed until 1959.

He then danced with the American Ballet Theatre, where he later became artistic director.

Since then, the Music Center has presented a broad array of ensembles, including New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Beijing Modern Dance Company, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Kirov Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre, Nuevo Ballet Español, Miami City Ballet and Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg.

He then made an abortive attempt to reform Spandau Ballet in 2004.