The Magic of Dance

The Magnificent Beginnings (1x5)

Ausstrahlung: Dez 03, 1979

Margot Fonteyn introduces the fifth program in the series from Versailles where Louis XIV's interest in and promotion of ballet let to world-wide recognition of the art and the dance as we know it today. Ballet originally danced by amateurs-couriters but in 1669 Louis set up the first professional school company. Dancers and masters were soon traveling world-wide. Costumes became lighter so technique advanced; emotion was added to technique and ordinary stories began to take place of dances about gods etc.