Cecchetti method
The Cecchetti method grew from the teaching of Enrico Cecchetti (1850–1928), an Italian dancer trained in the line of Carlo Blasis's pupils. He danced in St Petersburg, creating roles in The Sleeping Beauty (1890), joined Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1909 and opened a London school in 1918. He grouped the vocabulary into six sets of exercises, one for each day of the week.
The system was written down in 1922 by Cyril Beaumont with Cecchetti and Stanislas Idzikowski, in a manual still used worldwide. The Cecchetti Society, founded in London that year, merged with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing in 1924. Cecchetti International Classical Ballet, a non-profit incorporated in Canada in 2004, links member societies on several continents.
Sources
- Wikipedia: Cecchetti method
- ISTD: History of Cecchetti
- Cecchetti International Classical Ballet (CICB)
Organisations connected with this dance
- Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD), Cecchetti Classical Ballet faculty
- Cecchetti International Classical Ballet (CICB)
- Accademia Teatro alla Scala (ballet school of La Scala)
Listed as references; being listed is not an endorsement by or of the organisation.