Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Image ‘Premieres danseuses and their admirers in the Green Room of the King's Theatre Opera House’,1822, Mary Evans Picture Library, 4220-21915208. Image Vignette from Thomas Rowlandson, ‘This is the House that Jack Built’, 1809, The British Museum, 1868,0808.7878. Image John Bluck, ‘Covent Garden Theatre’, 1808, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 59.533.1671(15). Résumé Ballet has been used through the centuries as an … its presentation and culture as indulgent excess. The 1730s-1820s ballet relied on British affluent, well-heeled theatregoers to uncouth, standing-room only on-lookers, as a conduit for support and sociable endorsement without which …
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