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In 1581 a significant step forward is taken by Catherine's director of court
festivals, Baltazar de Beaujoyeulx. For a wedding celebration he produces the
Balet Comique de la Reine, combining dance (which he describes as being just
"geometric patterns of people dancing together") with the narrative interest of
a comedy. It is the first dramatic ballet.
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