"Ballet, ambition, and destiny collide as a family chases beauty across an era transformed by upheaval."

Excerpt: Dance of the Earth by Anna M Holmes 🩰✨🌍

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#OnThisDay, 12 Nov 1951, Celia Franca's National Ballet of Canada holds its first performance. Franca had gathered the company from across Canada in just 10 months. She goes on to co-found the National Ballet School.

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#OnThisDay, 12 Nov 1951, Celia Franca's National Ballet of Canada holds its first performance. Franca had gathered the company from across Canada in just 10 months. She goes on to co-found the National Ballet School.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #BalletHistory

#BaroqueDance practice. Working on this male solo published in 1700 by Feuillet. The music is from the "ballet royale" Flore (1669) by Lully, in which Louis XIV danced as the Sun (v. unsubtle propaganda).
Did Louis dance this choreography? It's tempting to believe so, but the delay between performance & publication is strong evidence against it. However, it's not implausible. Feuillet was accused of stealing the notation system - why not the dances too?
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#OTD Nov 30, 1879
Choreographer (and #opera director) August #Bournonville died in Copenhagen.
Despite all the changes in #ballet technique & aesthetics since then his surviving oeuvre like #Sylphide, Napoli, Folk Tale, Kermesse in Bruges is our window into the C19.
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