Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.

The most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).

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 ; ;

He was moving like a ballet dancer, playing for laughs.

that its persistent use by ballet companies of the Soviet regime indicates that that old spirit is just as stultifying alive today as it ever was ; ;

It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.

The engagement was supposed to be all set for the big theater in McCormick Place, which Sol Hurok, ballet booker extraordinary, considers the finest house of its kind in the country -- and of course he doesn't weep at the capacity, either.

At the other extreme in character was the half-hour excerpt from the Petipa-Minkus ballet `` Bayaderka '', which opened the evening.

He described the piece as a " rhapsodic ballet " because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works.

Although an enthusiastic amateur musician and patron of the ballet, Alexander was seen as lacking refinement and elegance.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

Don Chisciotte was a mix of ballet and opera buffa, and the lead female roles in L ' amore innocente were designed to contrast and highlight the different traditions of operatic writing for soprano, even borrowing stylistic flourishes from opera-seria in the use of coloratura in what was a short pastoral comedy more in keeping with a Roman Intermezzo.

Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer in early life.

In 1947, Bardot was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris, and for three years she attended the ballet classes of Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev.

In 1971 a ballet film was released, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, directed by Reginald Mills.

The first ballet dance academy was the Académie Royale de Danse ( Royal Dance Academy ), opened in Paris in 1661.

Shortly thereafter, the first institutionalized ballet troupe, associated with the Academy, was formed ; this troupe began as an all-male ensemble but by 1681 opened to include women as well.

The relationship of music to dance serves as the basis for Eurhythmics, devised by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, which was influential to the development of Modern dance and modern ballet through artists such as Marie Rambert.

This was a ballet that was clearly parodying itself, something traditional ballet patrons would obviously have serious issues with.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

After a performance of the ballet ' Tsar Kandavl ' at the Mariinsky Theatre, I first caught sight of the Emperor.

* 1974 – Christina Davis, Australian ballet dancer and contestant on the first season of Big Brother Australia

Eventually, the first definite cleavage between ballet and ballroom came when professional dancers appeared in the ballets, and the ballets left the Court and went to the stage.

The great innovations in dance in the 17th century originated at the French court under Louis XIV, and it is here that we see the first clear stylistic ancestor of classical ballet.

DanceWriting was first developed in 1966, when Sutton was only 15, training as a professional ballet dancer.

Early in 1960, Kelly, an ardent Francophile and fluent French speaker, was invited by A. M. Julien, the general administrator of the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique, to select his own material and create a modern ballet for the company, the first time an American had received such an assignment.

He experimented with lighting, camera techniques and special effects in order to achieve true integration of dance with film, and was one of the first to use split screens, double images, live action with animation and is credited as the person who made the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences.

* 1717 – The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.

In 1913 — the year of Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Niels Bohr's quantized atom, Ezra Pound's founding of imagism, the Armory Show in New York, and, in Saint Petersburg, the " first futurist opera ," Victory Over the Sun — another Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, working in Paris for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, composed The Rite of Spring for a ballet, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, that depicted human sacrifice.

Prokofiev's first major success breaking out of the composer-pianist mould was with his purely orchestral Scythian Suite, compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes ; Diaghilev commissioned three further ballets from Prokofiev – Chout, Le pas d ' acier and The Prodigal Son – which at the time of their original production were all highly successful.

Diaghilev commissioned Prokofiev's first ballet, Ala and Lolli, but rejected the work in progress when Prokofiev brought it to him in Italy in 1915.

Prokofiev's inexperience in ballet led him to revise the work extensively in the 1920s, following Diaghilev's detailed critique, prior to its first production.

In 1930 Prokofiev began his first non-Diaghilev ballet On the Dnieper, Op.

After experimenting with various diving actions and stunts in the water, Katherine Curtis started one of the first water ballet clubs at the University of Chicago, where the team began executing strokes, " tricks ," and floating formations.

In 2005, the ballet first aired.

The same year Vangelis composed his first score for a ballet by Wayne Eagling.

* December 22 – The CBS afternoon anthology series Seven Lively Arts presents Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker on U. S. television for the first time, although heavily abridged.

* June 25 – The ballet The Firebird ( L ' Oiseau de feu ), the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, is premièred in Paris, bringing the composer international fame.

* July 1 – The comic ballet La fille mal gardée choreographed by Jean Dauberval is first presented under the title Le ballet de la paille at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, in Bordeaux, France.

The company presents one full-length classical ballet in the spring of each year and one mixed repertory program in the fall, both presented at the Grand 1894 Opera House.

An improved cylinder-based system, Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre, was developed by Clément-Maurice Gratioulet and Henri Lioret of France, allowing short films of theater, opera, and ballet excerpts to be presented at the Paris Exposition in 1900.

Putting theory to practice, he adapted classic rembetika in his 1951 piano work, Six Folk Paintings ( Έξι Λαϊκές Ζωγραφιές ), which was later also presented as a folk ballet.

In 1734, the first ballet was presented ; a year later Handel's first season of operas began.

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.

In the first two decades of the century, two rival London theatres, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane presented productions that began seriously with classical stories with elements of opera and ballet, and ended with a comic " night scene ".

::: This dramatic ballet served as the climax of this musical production and has subsequently been presented as a stand-alone piece ; however, several of the sung numbers in the show featured dance routines as well, notably the title number.

Like Sadler's Wells, the Royal Opera House had presented no opera or ballet since 1939.

In 1734, the first ballet was presented.

In 1734, Covent Garden presented its first ballet, Pygmalion.

During this time, entertainments were varied ; opera and ballet were presented, but not exclusively.

Although it is presented in many different versions, most ballet companies base their stagings both choreographically and musically on the 1895 revival of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, first staged for the Imperial Ballet on 15 January 1895, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

Music that is composed to accompany opera and ballet is, of course, program music, even when presented separately as a concert piece.

In 2009, the Dance Theatre of Bradenton, Florida, presented the ballet version of the popular tale ( Allison Norton: The Ugly Duckling ).

The inauguration on April 4, 1847, presented a mixed program including the premieres of José Melchor Gomis ' musical ouverture, a historical play Don Fernando de Antequera by Ventura de la Vega, the ballet La rondeña ( The girl from Ronda ) by Josep Jurch, and a cantata Il regio himene with music by the musical director of the theatre Marià Obiols.

A TV program he presented, Hyundai Sports Cafe, regularly promoted nudity and asked for people to send in nude exploits for an annual " National Nude Day " competition, including a The Lord of the Rings parody by nude actors, and 30 naked ballet dancers ( both male and female ) performing in front of the University of Otago main building.

At the Surrey, where he was the lessee first from 1806 – 14 and then again beginning in 1827, to avoid the patent restrictions on drama outside the West End, he presented Shakespeare and other plays accompanied by ballet music.

The dances are presented in Marius Petipa's original order: Entrée, Variations for 3 demi-soloists, Grand adage, Waltz for the corps de ballet, variations for the three lead soloists, and the final Coda générale.

It was originally known as the Surfers Paradise Ski Gardens, which presented “ water ski shows that combined comedy, aqua ballet and action ”.

Although Tchaikovsky's ballet has been presented on TV many times in many different versions, the Baryshnikov version is one of only two to be nominated for an Emmy Award.

On 12 March 1842, the ballet was first presented in England at Her Majesty's Theatre, London with Carlotta Grisi and Jules Perrot in the principal roles and Louise Fleury as Myrtha, and, on 30 December of the same year, the ballet was first presented in St. Petersburg at the Bolshoi Theatre with Elena Andreyanova as Giselle.