• Thumbnail for Académie Royale de Danse
    The Académie Royale de Danse, founded by Letters Patent on the initiative of King Louis XIV of France in March 1661, was the first dance institution established...
    22 KB (2,903 words) - 03:45, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paris Opera
    the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and officially renamed the Académie Royale de Musique, but continued to be known more simply as the Opéra. Classical...
    51 KB (3,990 words) - 10:29, 30 August 2024
  • Beauchamps became the chancellor (director) of the Académie Royale de Danse. Although the Académie Royale de Danse and the Opera were closely connected, the two...
    41 KB (5,024 words) - 15:46, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ballet
    its height under the reign of King Louis XIV. Louis founded the Académie Royale de Danse (Royal Dance Academy) in 1661 to establish standards and certify...
    42 KB (4,353 words) - 18:58, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Beauchamp–Feuillet notation
    The notation was commissioned by Louis XIV (who had founded the Académie Royale de Danse in 1661), and devised in the 1680s by Pierre Beauchamp. The notation...
    4 KB (550 words) - 04:03, 19 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Louis XIV
    Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, and François Couperin thrived. In 1661, Louis founded the Académie Royale de Danse, and in 1669, the Académie d'Opéra, important...
    157 KB (18,336 words) - 16:53, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dance
    Dance (redirect from Danse)
    the French government. The first ballet dance academy was the Académie Royale de Danse (Royal Dance Academy), opened in Paris in 1661. Shortly thereafter...
    65 KB (7,587 words) - 15:01, 31 August 2024
  • member of the Académie royale de danse, brother of the two above René Malter (1695–1775), member and darling of the Académie royale de danse, son of François-Antoine...
    3 KB (363 words) - 21:01, 2 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pointe shoe
    years after King Louis XIV of France ordered the founding of the Académie Royale de Danse. At that time, the standard women's ballet shoe had heels. In the...
    25 KB (3,378 words) - 17:07, 4 July 2024
  • from a family of dancers. François became ballet master at the Académie royale de Danse. From 1778 he worked with Louis Hamoir and Jean Nicolas Le Mercier...
    2 KB (179 words) - 08:35, 20 November 2023