During his tour of Europe at age twenty, Cecchetti made a successful debut on the stage of La Scala in Milan, Italy.  He received many positive reviews on his performance of batterie, leaps, and precise execution of approximately thirty-two pirouettes á la seconde (Carpenter). ... In 1918 Cecchetti retired with his wife, Giuseppina de Maria, in London as director of the ballet school at La Scala Theater. ... Positions such as attitudes penchées and á la seconde lines all require the torso to be held "more or less parallel to the ground with little sense of 'kee...

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Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589) loved dancing, pageants and spectacles because of her father, Lorenzo II, who was duke of Urbino. ... Named "Ballet Comique de la Reine- (The Queen's Dramatic Ballet), it was performed in honor of Catherine's sister, Margaret of Lorraine, who was marrying the duke of Joyeuse. It was a form of Ballet de cour, court ballet, which is the ancestor of modern ballet. ... Unlike any other production before this point in history, Ballet Comique de la Reine cost several million francs and was considered a great political and social success. ... Therefor...

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Where artistic innovation was not the motivating force, some took a political standpoint like the Ballet des Polonaise, brought about by Catherine de' Medici. ... In1669 Louis took a more decisive step and opened the step opening the Académie Royale de Musique, known still today as the Paris Opéra. ... In 1650 King Louis XIV made him superintendent of the ballet, and danced many times with the King in the ballet de cour. A man by the name of Jean Baptiste Lully appointed him director of the Academie Royale de Danse. ... (Anderson, Ballet and Modern Dance) Beauchamp devise...

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La fiesta de quinceañera, always known as a sweet fifteen, is a celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday, celebrated by Hispanics or Latinos. The fifteenth birthday is a special time period for young woman, it is celebrated differently because it is the transition from childhood to womanhood...

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