6 Facts About Carlo Blasis

1. Carlo Blasis added two tackles and two blocked shots on 79 touches.

2. Carlo Blasis took particular interest in some movements considered to be too aggressively virtuosic for the Romantic era of the early 1800s.

3. Carlo Blasis is most known for the pose "Attitude" derived from the famous statue Mercury by Giovanni da Bologna.

4. Carlo Blasis trained all of Enrico Cecchetti's teachers and it is thought that Blasis's influence in his training is what led Cecchetti to create the Cecchetti method of ballet.

5. Carlo Blasis insisted that his students learn theories and definitions of dance steps.

6. Carlo Blasis was an Italian dancer, choreographer and dance theoretician born in Naples.