How did ballet start?

Did you know ballet is basically an extreme sport mixed with a royal dance party? Join Mira and Finn as they leap into the amazing, high-flying history of ballet! We're traveling back 600 years to the Italian Renaissance, where kings and queens threw giant parties and danced in velvet dresses weighing 40 pounds! Find out how an epic French king named Louis XIV loved dancing so much he played a sun god, earned the nickname the "Sun King," and created the world's very first ballet school! (That is why all the ballet moves you know today are named in French!) We will also bundle up and travel to freezing cold Russia to learn how the magical music for The Nutcracker and Swan Lake was born! Discover how a daring group of dancers shocked audiences with extreme jumps, follow the legendary Anna Pavlova as she travels 300,000 miles to share ballet with the world, and learn how Misty Copeland made history by becoming the first Black female Principal Dancer at the American Ballet Theatre! Put on your dancing shoes and get ready for a history lesson that will keep you on your toes!