The Romantic Ballet in Paris

The age of Romanticism in the first half of the nineteenth century was one of the greatest periods in the history of ballet. In a span of two decades ballet became what it had never been before, a major theatre art, gaining new vitality and meaning from the ideas of the Romantic movement which rapidly infiltrated each one of its component parts: scenarios, music, décor, choreography and dance style.
The main centre of the Romantic Ballet was the Paris Opéra, and its high priest was the poet...