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Ballet is performed in many different sorts of ways. Some ballets consist of just girls, and some of girls and boys. Ballet is performed by twirling around on special sorts of ballet shoes, walking "en pointe", and doing different sorts of moves that also involve plies and leaping into the air. Some require for you to do splits, and also to use your arms. In some, the boys assist the girls in their moves and even lift them into the air.
The first ballets were performed about 500 years ago in Italy and France. They were usually exciting shows of dancing and singing performed for the royal families and their guests. The first real ballet on record was staged in the year 1581. The grand performance was calledLe Ballet Comique de la Reine, meaning "The Comic Ballet of the Queen." Catherine de Medici, the French queen, arranged the ballet performance to celebrate a wedding. The ballet started at 10PM and lasted for 5 hours. About 10,000 guests were in attendance.
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He was born January 5, 1931, in the Central Texas town of Rogers, in Bell County. He died in New York December 1, 1989, of blood dyscrasia. Alvin was the only child of his 17-year-old mother, Lula. His father abandoned them when Alvin was six months old. Mother and son moved to Navasota, eventually settling in Los Angeles. To get buy, they picked cotton and did domestic work. Ailey showed an early interest in art, drawing pictures during much of his childhood. He discovered dance while on a junior high school field trip to see the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Eventually, he took dance classes from choreographer Katherine Dunham. But his most important influence would come from choreographer Lester Horton, who taught dance in Los Angeles. Horton's troupe was racially mixed and included American Indian and Japanese influences. Ailey began studying with Horton in 1949, leaving behind his romance language studies at UCLA. In 1953, the year Ailey made his performance debut, Horton died and Ailey took over the company.
Jurriëns, Henny (b Arnhem, 21 Feb. 1949, d9 Apr. 1989). Dutch dancer and ballet director. He studied with Winja Marova and later with Arova, Franchetti, Bon, and Kramar. From 1966 to 1970 he was a member of the Norwegian National Ballet. In 1970 he joined Dutch National Ballet, eventually becoming a principal, and created roles in many ballets by van Dantzig and van Manen. In 1988 he became artistic director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, but the following year he and his wife, the dancer Judith James, lost their lives in an automobile accident.Read more: henny-jurri-ns