dance history

By pyemey123
  • Period: Jan 1, 600 to

    dance timeline

  • Feb 11, 600

    c.600bc

    c.600bc
    The choros, originally danced in a circle by temple virgins, is the centrepiece of the developing Greek theatre.Frenzied dances, in honour of the god Dionysus, become part of Greek theatre - deriving probably from the northeast, in Thrace
  • Feb 11, 1581

    1581

    1581
    The first dramatic ballet, "the Balet Comique de la Reine" (comic ballet Queen), is presented during French wedding festivities

  • 1653

    1653
    The 14-year-old Louis XIV dances in a court ballet as Apollo, wearing a glorious sun costume, and finds that he likes the role

  • 1661

    1661
    Louis XIV establishes a royal dancing academy and soon follows it with a music academy