It’s an ingenious idea: Create an evening-length ballet about the progenitor of ballet, Louis XIV, and his most frequent collaborator, composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. And there was a certain magic to ...
Katie Derham explores on dance at the court of Versailles, including the music of Louis XIV and the French Baroque, as well as the origins of classical ballet. Show more Katie Derham explores dance at ...
"Consider your luck as great as your talent," is how Louis XIV admonishes Giovanni Baptista Lulli, the Italian dancer-musician and wayward Superintendent of the King's Music. The relationship between ...