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Pavlova, Massine, Nijinska, Nijinsky, Preobrazhenskaya, Lifar, de Valois, Karsavina, Legat, and Vaganova all studied with one man: the amazing Enrico Cecchetti (1850-1928). His ingenious method of teaching endowed the human body with all the qualities essential to the dancer--balance, strength, elevation, elasticity, and ballon--making it as relevant today as it was in the early years of the 20th century. While these qualities are the ideal of every ballet school or teaching system, Cecehetti's method distilled the training to an exact science.
Born in Italy, Cecchetti was a brilliant virtuoso dancer and mime. As a member of the Imperial Russian Ballet, he choreographed and danced The Bluebird in The Sleeping Beauty. Discovering he had a gift for teaching, he began to work with many famous artists of the era. Later in his career he opened a school in London, and it was there that his teaching system was codified.
When Cecchetti...
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