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DAWN

Dawn Ola-Parker is a student of dance studies at a prestigious university in Mexico. She encounters and collides with her dance instructor, Roberto Martinez and begins her training on a wrong footing. After a while however, fate brings them together in a way that she never expects or imagined. Love and passion slowly entwines them in a whirlwind of romance and before long Dawn finds herself engaged to be married to her dance instructor, Roberto. But something happens unexpectedly at the university that threatens her passion to dance and her engagement to Roberto Martinez. Will their love be able to survive the storms? And will Dawn realize that there’s more to her heart than just dancing professionally? This is an intriguing story you don’t wanna miss! You can get your copy @ https://www.xinxii.com/dawn-504332

Women In Ballet

It took a while before women began to dance ballet. Women did not enter the scene professionally until 1681. The most famous women dancers of the early and mid 1700’s were Marie Camargo and Marie Salle. Marie Camargo shortened her skirts to show her ankles, and wore soft slippers to dance instead of the conventional high heeled shoes worn at the time. Her chosen shoe style allowed and enabled her to do various steps that weren’t possible before then. She has been credited with inventing the ’entrechat’, known as the high spring, in which the feet are crossed in the air. As for Marie Salle, she discarded the dresses of the era, and wore flowing draperies instead. Their most famous male contemporary was Jean Georges Noverre, whose reforms, anticipating the naturalistic trends of the nineteenth century included the discarding of masks and the wearing of costumes suitable to ballet being performed then. The Romantic Period... In Western Europe, the 19th century saw progress in the d...

Ballet Dance

Dance has had  it’s existence from the beginning of time. The dance style or form known as ballet,  which is a professional work of art which was intended for stage had its origins in the French court of Henry III and his mother, Catherine de Medicis, when in 1581, the Ballet Comique de la royne (reine) was created to celebrate the marriage of the Queen’s sister. This was the first genuine ballet de cour (count ballet), an elaborate pantomime spectacle showing the fable of Circe and performed by courtiers. Each ballet dance was an adaptation of court dances at that time. Precursors of this dramatic type of dance had already existed in Italy, a notable example being the elaborate court pantomime dance of  1489, which was based on the myths of Jason and the Argonauts, Diana, and so on, to celebrate the marriage Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke Of Milan, to Isabella of Aragon. Such entertainment continued for a hundred years, reaching their peak, during the reign of Louis XIV, who...