Ballet - Wikipedia Ballet is a French word which had its origin in Italian balletto, a diminutive of ballo (dance) which comes from Latin ballo, ballare, meaning "to dance", [1] [2] which in turn comes from the Greek "βαλλίζω" (ballizo), "to dance, to jump about" [2] [3] The word came into English usage from the French around 1630 In French, the word refers to a ballet performance, a ballet work, and
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The Royal Ballet - rbo. org. uk The Governors were established to be the custodians of the traditions established by Ninette de Valois and to oversee the Company's future In 1931, de Valois relocated her Academy of Choreographic Art to Sadler’s Wells Theatre and transformed it into The Vic-Wells Ballet School, which fed dancers into The Vic-Wells Ballet Company
Ballett – Wikipedia Das Nußknackerballett (1981) Tänzerin (Gemälde von Pierre-Auguste Renoir) Als Ballett (von italienisch balletto, Diminutiv von ballo; deutsch Tanz, französisch und englisch ballet) wird meist der von Musik begleitete klassische künstlerische Bühnentanz (klassischer Tanz, Balletttanz) bezeichnet, der oft vom Zeitgenössischen Tanz, Modern Dance oder Tanztheater unterschieden wird