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Show RISE AND PROGRESS OF DANCING. 21 Lany, who has obtained some reputation as a dancer of the demi-caractere, ranks first among the ballet-masters of the opera of Paris. Beauchamps, the director of the ballets of Louis XIV.33, Sodi, a famous pantomimic performer, D e Hesse and Malter, were regarded as the best composers of their period. Pitrot succeeded them, and feeling in himself a capacity for heroic compositions, he brought forth his ballet of Telemachus, which met with considerable applause. His cotemporaries, Picq, an excellent dancer of the serious kind, Gaspard Angiolini and Canziani, distinguished themselves in the tragic line. Noverre came next, and carried stage-dancing many degrees towards perfection. Dupre, G. Vestris, Pitrot, and Gardel, the elder, were reckoned among the best of their time. Dumoulin surpassed them but little ; he excelled in pas de deux, and in his style of accompanying his partner in the different groups and attitudes. Fossan disputed the palm with him in the comic and pastoral.-Of the other sex, the most celebrated dancers were the Melles Salle, Lany and Camargo, who followed and surpassed the Melles Guyot and Favier ; the first was a very graceful dancer of the graver sort, the second of the demi-caractere, and the third principally excelled in cross capering, and in dancing to the liveliest tunes. PreVot was her equal. Beauchamps, Pe"cour, Blondi, Ballon, Laval, Javilliers, Lepi, Melles Heinel, Pelin, & c , hold also an honourable rank among the disciples of Terpsichore. Melles Guimard and Allard, their successors, eclipsed many a name by the gracefulness and brilliancy of their steps. Dauberval shone in the comic line, and that of the demi-caractere ; P. Gardel in the serious, and A. Vestris in a combination of both. These three, together withLaborie, Deshayes, Duport; Mesdames Chameroy, Gardel, Gos- 2 |