Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]
… timed with London’s blossoming as a metropolis. Weaver was an exceptional dancing master from London well-known on the public stage. He offered dance instruction, created ballets, and published dance treatises cleverly making dance a … encores , and throwing flowers onto the stage (as audiences were wont to do) was not the only way that members of the public could express their enthusiasm for dance. They could also learn and dance some of the theatrical national dance … in the ballroom themselves, fitting foreign dance styles to their own bodies, much as they donned costumes to wear to public balls. 8 7 . Ivor Guest, The Romantic Ballet in England, 2nd ed. (London: Pitman Publishing, 1972), p. 37. 8 . …
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