Cecchetti in Australia
The Cecchetti training method is an internationally recognised and respected method of teaching Classical ballet, established by Maestro Enrico Cecchetti, and codified in 1922 by Cyril Beaumont and Stanislas Idzikowsky in The Cecchetti Manual entitled A Manual of the Theory and Practice of Classical Theatrical Dancing. The Cecchetti Society was established by Cyril Beaumont in London in 1922, with Maestro Enrico Cecchetti as its first president. and was independent until it joined the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing in 1924.
The first Cecchetti examinations were held in Australia in 1934 when the Cecchetti Society was established by Madam Lucie Saronova. The Society continued to grow, administered for 51 years by the Council of Management in Victoria, under the auspices of The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing in London. In 1987 The Cecchetti Society of Australia Inc. was incorporated becoming an autonomous Australian Society administered by an elected National Council of members from its state branches. Its head office is in Melbourne.
In 1997 Australia became a founding member of a new International Society - Cecchetii International - Classical Ballet. Other founding members are Canada, Italy, South Africa, United Kingdom and U.S.A.. This International Society is committed to the promotion and expansion of the Cecchetti method of Classical Ballet and to its continued progress in training methods into the future throughout the world.
Cecchetti dancers have always achieved places in ballet and dance companies all over the world. Currently there are Cecchetti students at The Australian Ballet School, Victorian College for the Arts, and Queensland School of Excellence. Cecchetti male dancers are as frequent as the female dancers in the ranks of successful professionals in Australia and throughout the world. A well trained Cecchetti dancer has a purity of line and simplicity of style which enables them to take their places in dance companies of other genres of classical ballet.
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