Carlo Blasis Quotes

• The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.

  Carlo Blasis

  Dance, Art, Dancing

  "The Theory of Theatrical Dancing: With a Chapter on Pantomime".

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• The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises.

  Carlo Blasis

  Dance, Art, Dancing

  Carlo Blasis (1830). “The code of Terpsichore. The art of dancing, tr. by R. Barton”, p.40

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