DANCING

Ballet was not always the pure dance and instrumental music that we picture today. The earliest versions of ballet mixed the dance with operatic performances and general drama as part of royal entertainment. Still, the beginnings of what we now see as ballet were there in the movements and certain segments of the performance. 

Long before the first video game could even be conceived, the earliest ballet was interactive entertainment for court nobility. Dance masters would teach kings and other nobles the steps and they would perform them as part of the festivities towards the end in addition to viewing the performance.