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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