Enrico Cecchetti, one of the world's outstanding
teachers of ballet, established a system of passing on the tradition of ballet
to future generations of dancers. This system, the Cecchetti method, was
codified and recorded by Cyril Beaumont, Stanislas Idzikowski, Margaret Craske
and Derra de Moroda. The method has a definite program of strict routine and
includes a table of principal set daily exercises for each day of the week. The
Cecchetti Society was formed in London in 1922 to perpetuate his method of
teaching. In 1924 the Society was incorporated into the Imperial Society of
Teachers of Dancing. Entrance to the Society is by examination and students must
pass through a carefully graded system which has done much to raise the standard
of dancing and teaching throughout the British Empire.
