Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into an institutionalized concert dance form in France, Russia and Denmark. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary. With the development of other forms of dance art in the 20th century, ballet can be considered as a specific style of theatrical dance. - Throughout the 20th century the term had been used also as a generic signifier for the quality of artistic dance. In Slovenia Pino (1907-2006) and Pia Mlakar (1910-2000), choreographers that helped significantly develop the art of dance in Slovenia and Yugoslavia, used the term for different paradigms of artistic dance - from modern dance to historical ballet - when they became with their stage works significant enough to earn it. (R.V., 9.4.2026)