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Ballet's history is not just about choreography and technique — it's also a history of nationalization, the changing ways we view the body,... The Tutu's Tale: A Cultural History Of Ballet's 'Angels' ...

Domenico da Piacenza (1390-1470) is credited with the first use of the term ballo (in De Arte Saltandi et Choreas Ducendi) instead of danza (dance) for his baletti or balli. What's the origin of the ...

Ivor Guest, a lawyer by training whose extensive research into ballet from 1750 to 1900 transformed the study of dance history, died March 30 in London. He was 97. Ivor Guest, a lawyer by training ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The trailblazing research being done by Joselli Deans, Ed.D. cannot be overlooked. Her ongoing work in presenting Black history in the world of ballet has grabbed the attention ...

Starting February 5th Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet (MoBBallet.org) will launch four new orbits to its popular The Constellation Project: Mapping the Dark Stars of Ballet: Raven Wilkinson, the First ...