Les Miserables

Ballet originated in the late fifteenth century.the italian court ballets were widely developed in france. “ Funny ballet of the queen” is the first ballet of surviving a fullsocre in paris in 1581. Beaujoyeux created and danced by aristocratic amateurs. This determined the future character of the court ballet with its sumptuouscostumes,decorations,artificial fountains,lighting.. in the seventeenth century.in 1661 louis 14 founded teh royal academy of dance, for teachers. The dance was the beginning to take shape as aprefessional discipline.at first,only men colud participate.the first dancers appeared in 1681 in a ballet called “ the thriumph of love” anne marie chapman shortened skirts andwore low heeled slippers to display her jumps and beats. John weaver eliminated words and tried to convey dramatic action through dance and gesture.the dance ends began to developalthough the dancers balanced on their toes just a moment as he still had not been invented toe shoes.women dominated and still do the romantic ballet. In europe the balletbegan to lose interest.russia however,followed it with a ballet tradition ,thanks to marius petipa.among his works are perhaps the most famous ballets like the sleeping beauty in1890, the swan lake and nutcraker three in collaboration with lev ivanov with music by pyotr iilych tchaikovsky.russian ballets founded by s. diaghilev collaboration with theformer were the beginning of modern ballet.anna pavlova danced iin the early days of the ballet and created her own company.russian influence on ballet has been inmense,finding thefamous cases of desertion as rudolf nureyev,natalia makarova and mikhail baryshnikov.in 1987 maia plisietskaia fue nombrada directora artistica del ballet lirico nacional.