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The Dance Class Workshop.
=The Dance Class Workshop= = A Heavenly Harmony - The Extraordinary Story of Ballet =
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Even more surprising, the spinning planets vibrating their way around their orbits were believed to make music (which we can't hear) - the Music of the Spheres.
=Touching God....=

French King Louis XIV developed ballet and its steps to do just this (this is why all [|ballet words]are in French).
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Source: http://www.sfexaminer.com || =HARMONY in the Heavens, HARMONY in Geometry and HARMONY in Music.= =Ancients with Harmonious Ideas translated into Ballet...= = = Source: http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/science-hero-award-pythagoras/
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way of **numbers.** Pythagoras said:
Source: http://physics.ucr.edu/
 * ===="Number rules the universe".====
 * ===="Geometry is knowledge of the eternal" (meaning God).====
 * ====There is geometry in the humming of the strings (meaning music)====
 * ====The whole universe is based on the numbers 1,2,3,4 which added together, make 10. No other numbers that are not related to these numbers.==== || [[image:pythagoras universe width="330" height="330" align="center"]]

central fire. Each planet (or sphere) gave off a sound the way something does when it swishes through the air.

 * ====The closer planets gave off lower tones.====
 * ====The furthest away gave off higher tones.====

All fitted together in perfect **HARMONY** - the music of the spheres.
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was linked to numbers. **Read below to see how...**
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5 patterns which could be made from triangles, squares and polygons.
**Plato's shapes are called [|Platonic Solids]**. The Platonic solids are special because every face is a regular polygon of the same size and shape. For example, each face of a cube is a square. These solids were thought to be in harmony - everything fitted together perfectly.

|| **Kepler (1570-1631)** was a German astronomer and mathematician.

and if each of the solids were nested within one another, the six circles would correspond to the orbits of the planets.
Because of this perfect geometry, the Universe was described as being in **HARMONY.**

Kepler thought he had revealed God’s geometrical plan for the universe.
Kepler's Model of the Universe ||

Harmony in Music - it's all about a good fit...  **Sound waves patterns for C (red) and G (green)** Every 3rd wave of G matches every second wave of C (you see the match along the black line) We describe their match in numbers. We say their ratio is 3:2 - two of Pythagoras' ====special numbers.==== The waves are a good fit so they make a nice sound. They are in **HARMONY.** **Sound wave pattern for C (red) and F# (green)** The waves don't fit together exactly anywhere at all. The notes played together make us cringe!

A quick lesson in **HARMONY**:

 * ====When you play a music note the sound sends an invisible vibration through the air. These vibrations are called sound waves.====
 * ====The faster the sound waves travel, the higher the pitch of the note.====
 * ====Musical notes can be written as names - C, D, E, F, G, A, B====
 * ====They can be written as frequencies - vibrations/ second.====
 * ====They can be written as ratios, e.g. middle C is twice the frequency of the C below (the sound waves vibrate twice as fast). The ratio is 2:1.====
 * ====Pythagoras linked all musical notes back to numbers and ratios.====
 * ====The ratios between the notes are the basis of the musical scale we learn today.====
 * ====The simpler the ratios the better the harmony.====
 * ====When the wavelengths of two notes played together meet cleanly, we say they are in harmony.==== ||

So where is all this harmony leading?

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The steps and body positions have remained the same ever since.
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Their aim is perfect balance and harmony. It is very difficult to achieve!
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Watch some ballet geometry in action...
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Source: http://www.balletterms.net/body-positions