ance style in Europe. It soon developed cabarets and risqué dances such as "La Volta". Dancers were strictly categorized as to body types, many longing to be like the Sun King, himself. Heavy wigs and masks were done away with when Gaetano was ill for a performance and the dancer who was called to replace him agreed only on the condition that he could go on without the mask, so the audience could recognize who he was. This man, Auguste Vestris was later declared the ultimate God of Dance. He lived from 1760 to 1842 and saw the changes from Dupré in his large wig, to Taglioni on
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