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Teatro Alla Scala Ballet Company - Giselle

Date: Sept 10 - 7:15 pm

Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center

Price: 80-1,680 yuan

The present day Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala can boast a glorious past whose roots go back centuries to the 1778 inauguration of the world's most celebrated musical theater. Illustrious choreographers, such as Jean-Georges Noverre, Gasparo Angiolini, Salvatore Vigan��, were to exert great influence on dance in Europe, even before the founding in 1813 of the Imperial Dance Academy of La Scala. From here Carlo Blasis, the illustrious dancer, teacher and theorist brought Ballet into the romantic period, contributing to the technical innovation of its style. In Russia, Enrico Cecchetti, propagated the teaching of the Italian academic technique and by way of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which he had joined, elevated its status in this new era. Dance at La Scala entered the twentieth century also with renowned choreographers linked to the Ballets Russes, like Mikhail Fokin and Leonide Massine.

(China Daily 09/10/2016 page20)