The Cecchetti training method is an internationally recognised and respected method of teaching Classical ballet, established by Maestro Enrico Cecchetti, and codified in 1922 by Cyril Beaumont and Stanislas Idzikowsky in The Cecchetti Manual entitled A Manual of the Theory and Practice of Classical Theatrical Dancing.

Dame Marie Rambert was a former pupil and colleague of Cecchetti and she also established a professional ballet school teaching his methods.

Phyllis Bedells, another Cecchetti pupil, would also play an important role in the teaching of ballet in Britain, as a founder member of the Royal Academy of Dance, which today is the worlds largest Classical Ballet teaching organisation.

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.

While teaching a class, Cecchetti collapsed and he died the following day, November 13, 1928.

Enrico Cecchetti teaching Anna Pavlova in Paris, circa 1920

While teaching a class, Cecchetti collapsed and was taken home, where he died the following day, November 13, 1928.

Other well-known classical ballet styles include the Paris Opera Ballet School Method, Russian Method, Italian Method, Danish Method, Balanchine method, Cecchetti method, and Royal Academy of Dance and Royal Ballet School Methods.

She took extra lessons from the noted teachers of the day — Christian Johansson, Pavel Gerdt, Nikolai Legat and more especially from Enrico Cecchetti, considered the greatest ballet virtuoso of the time and founder of the Cecchetti method, a very influential ballet technique used up to this day.

The Cecchetti method is a ballet technique and training system devised by the Italian ballet master and pedagogue Enrico Cecchetti ( 1850 – 1928 ).

The Cecchetti method is a strict training system with special concern for anatomy within the confines of classical ballet technique, and seeks to develop the essential characteristics of dance in its students through a rigid training regime.

This International Society is committed to the promotion and expansion of the Cecchetti method of Classical Ballet and to its continued progress in training methods into the future throughout the world.

The Cecchetti method was also favoured by de Valois when she formed the Royal Ballet School.

The British writer and dance historian Cyril W. Beaumont was a close friend of Cecchetti and, in 1922 he collaborated with Cecchetti to codify the training technique into a printed syllabus, The Cecchetti Method of Classical Ballet, which has become the foremost reference for Cecchetti method teachers worldwide.

Cecchetti also gave Beaumont permission to established the Cecchetti Society to maintain the method and ensure that it would be passed on to future ballet teachers in its original form.

The original Cecchetti Society still exists in Britain, although it was absorbed into the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, which continues to maintain the Cecchetti method as a separate entity from its own Imperial Classical Ballet syllabus.

Today, the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing promotes the Cecchetti method as a syllabus-based series of dance examinations, which are taught by registered teachers around the world in both pre-vocational and vocational dance schools.

The Cecchetti Society was established by Cyril Beaumont in London in 1922, with Maestro Enrico Cecchetti as its first president.

The first Cecchetti examinations were held in Australia in 1934 when the Cecchetti Society was established by Madam Lucie Saronova.

In 1987 The Cecchetti Society of Australia Inc. was incorporated becoming an autonomous Australian Society administered by an elected National Council of members from its state branches.

Dame Ninette de Valois was a colleague of Cecchetti during her professional career with the Ballets Russes.

The second method is more common in the Russian method and was first introduced by Enrico Cecchetti.

* Cinderella from Petipa / Ivanov / Cecchetti ( music by Fitingof-Shell, 1893 ), Legnani was the first to establish 32 fouettés en tournant.

Her training was based on the Cecchetti method of classical dance.

Petipa's illness kept him from composition for nearly the whole of 1893, and it was during this time that Enrico Cecchetti, the great Italian dancer and teacher, began to assist Lev Ivanov in substituting for Petipa in the staging of ballets and rehearsals.

She trained in modern dance, Cecchetti ballet and classes at the Detroit Institute of Arts in puppetry, mime and theater since childhood, was a member of the Detroit Puppetry Guild, Puppeteers of America and UNIMA, performed with George Latshaw ’ s puppets for the Detroit and Cleveland symphony orchestras and Jim Henson offered her an apprenticeship with the Muppets which was declined to accept a Fulbright scholarship to India.

She graduated from the Classe de Perfection of the former Prima Ballerina Eugeniia Sokolova ( she was also trained by Ekaterina Vazem, Enrico Cecchetti, Christian Johansson, Nikolai Legat, and Pavel Gerdt ).

In 1921 he left Soviet Union and was noticed by Serge Diaghilev who sent him to Turin in order to improve his technique with Enrico Cecchetti.

Enrico Cecchetti (; 21 June 1850, Rome – 13 November 1928, Milan ) was an Italian ballet dancer, mime, and founder of the Cecchetti method.

* Ryman's Dictionary of Classical Ballet Terms: Cecchetti

Grade Examinations may be taken in Classical Ballet ( Cecchetti and Imperial methods ), Modern Theatre, Tap, National Dance, Classical Greek, South Asian ( Kathak and Bharatanatyam ), Modern Ballroom, Latin American, Disco Freestyle and Classical Sequence.

Class Examinations may be taken in Classical Ballet ( Cecchetti and Imperial methods ), Classical Greek and Modern Theatre.

In 1900 Nijinsky joined the Imperial Ballet School, where he studied under Enrico Cecchetti, Nikolai Legat, and Pavel Gerdt.

Currently there are Cecchetti students at The Australian Ballet School, Victorian College for the Arts, and Queensland School of Excellence.

Enrico Cecchetti and his wife opened a ballet school in London in 1918, and his pupils included some of the most influential names in British Ballet, many also influencing ballet throughout the world.

She established The Royal Ballet in London, with many of the companies early dancers being pupils of Cecchetti.

There are many ballet teachers who can trace their knowledge of the Cecchetti method in a direct line from pupils of Enrico Cecchetti, including generations of dancers trained at the Royal Ballet and Rambert ballet schools.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Imperial Russian Ballet soon rose to prominence and would employ some of the most influential and famous names in ballet history including Charles Didelot, Marie Taglioni, Christian Johansson, Enrico Cecchetti, Jules Perrot, Fanny Cerrito and Carlotta Grisi.

Cecchetti A Ballet Dynasty.

32 fouettés were first introduced into the coda of the Grand Pas d ' action of the ballet Cinderella ( choreographed by Lev Ivanov, Enrico Cecchetti, and Marius Petipa to the music of Baron Boris Vietinghoff-Scheel ) by Pierina Legnani, prima ballerina assoluta of the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg.

In 1914 she moved to the United Kingdom, and studied under Enrico Cecchetti.