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Beauchamp, ''superintendent'' of the ballet and director of the Académie Royale De Danse codified the ''five positions'' based on the foundations set down by Thoinot Arbeau in his 1588 ''Orchesographie''. Emphasising the technical aspects of dance Beauchamp set out the first ''rules'' of ballet technique. The emphasis on ''turned out'' legs, light costumes, female dancers and long dance sequences (all first seen in L'Europe Galante ( 1697 )) with light, flexible footwear was a turning point in ballet practice that lead to Pre Romantic Ballet era. Pierre Rameau expanded on Beauchamp's work in '' Dancing Master '' 1725 further detailing carriage of the body, steps and positions. The ballets de cour developed into the Comédie-ballet and then the Opéra-ballet during the course of the 18th Century . This was a fully operatic form that included ballet as a prominent feature of the performance. Jean-Philippe Rameau 's Les Indes Galantes ( 1735 ) is considered to be the work that signaled the divergence of social (ballroom) dance and ballet. SEE ALSO "ballet is the key to life" |
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