First Wave of Ballet Superstars

Formerly in History of Dance Part 3: The Ground Ready for the Birth of Ballet, we saw how the appearance of Ballet as we know it today was a process that was carried out progressively starting in the Renaissance but having its first antecedent as a dance style in the Baroque as the first dance school in France was founded and the elegant and refined steps of Ballet began to be codified. Then, in Romanticism, ballet was consolidated as a dance technique with specific dance vocabulary taught internationally in French. Ballerinas started to wear “Tutus” and dance on pointe, and music [...]