Ballet
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Ballet is a type of dance. It is usually done by people which have a special training in it. The first reference to ballet is found in a work of Domenico da Piacenza, who lived in the early 14th century.
Ballet is most often performed to music. It is also often used to tell stories with the help of dance and mime.
[edit] Technique
Ballet techniques are usually grouped by the area in which they come from, for example Russian ballet, French ballet, Danish ballet, Italian ballet, and American ballet.
Specific methods are named after the ballet master or mistress who started them, such as the Vaganova method after Agrippina Vaganova, the Balanchine method after George Balanchine, and the Cecchetti method after Enrico Cecchetti.
[edit] Home position on ballet
There are five home positions at classic ballet. Home positions are the positions that the dancers feet should be in to start. These positions was designed by the dancing master Pierre Beauchamp at some point in the late 17th century
1. On the first position, the heels are together and the feet are apart. The feet should make a straight line.
2. The second position is like the first but the heels are not together.
3. The third is with one foot placed at a right angle to the other foot. The heel of one foot is placed touching the toe of the other.
4. The fourth position is similar to the fifth but the feet are not together.
5. On the fifth position the feet are parralell to each other and pointing in opposite directions. There is not distance between the feet.
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