¿QUE COMEMOS HOY?: Ballet: "The Art of Dancing"

BALLET:

It is a performing art that can include dance, orchestral music, choir, mime, acting, scenery, costumes, and fantasy stories. It all depends on who its creator is and when it was created. Many call it classical dance. Others call it academic dance. The truth is that we all recognize a ballet by the precision of the dancers' refined movements.

ETYMOLOGY:

The general terminology of our culture admits words like "dance", "dance", "modern", "classical" and "ancient"; to name dance art, although each of the terms contains a different definition in each case, and sometimes this definition is not even linked to what we now call ballet.

The word ballet, taken from the Latin ballo, ballare, 'to dance', in turn taken from the Greek βαλλίζω (ballizo), 'to dance', 'to jump'.

HISTORY:

The history of dance studies the evolution of dance through time. Since prehistoric times, human beings have had the need to communicate bodily, with movements that expressed feelings and states of mind. These first rhythmic movements also served to ritualize important events (births, deaths, weddings). In principle, the dance had a ritual component, celebrated infertility, hunting or war ceremonies, or of various religious nature, where the breathing itself and the heartbeat served to give the first cadence to the dance.

Ballet, as we know it today, emerged in Renaissance Italy (1400-1600). It was in France during the reign of Louis XIV, nicknamed the Sun King, that the need for professionalization arose and in 1661 the first dance school was created: the Académie Royale de la Dance. In 1700, R. A. Feuillet published Choréographie ou art de noter la danse where for the first time all the coded steps are reproduced and the first attempt at transliteration or notation of the figures is founded. In 1725, Jean-Philippe Rameau with his Traité Maître à danser perfected all the technique previously proposed.