History Of Ballet Essay

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Ballet as we all know it today, started around the year 1500 in Italy. The term “ballet” comes from the word “ballare” which means to dance in Italian. At the beginning dancers used to wear masks, customs, ornaments, ect.
Ballet began in the 1400s, people were into the arts in this era. Ballet was not danced professionally at first, it was for entertainment.
In 1661, the King Louis XIV made a ballet school called the Royal Academy of Dancing, ballerinas would go there to practice their

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