Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]
… 2 A genius, Weaver formed the idea of ‘distinctly English and very polite’ art form of ballet and moved it towards pantomime and the ancient Greeks. 3 Yet still an appetite for French dance existed. England provided a generous … choreographers including Gasparro Angiolini and Jean-Georges Noverre. For more information see John Weaver, An Essay Towards an History of Dancing, in which the Whole Art and its Various Excellencies are in Some Measure Explain'd : … was not until the advent of gaslight that the noise of conversation in the theatre receded. After the French and English War, more people began to come to see ballet performances including soldiers. Theatres relied on this rapt attention, …
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