Editing Shropshire (section)

=== Birthplace of English ballet and pantomime ===
{{main|John Weaver (dancer)}}
The "father of English ballet",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Limited |first=Six Ticks |title=Dance Festival in Celebration of 'Father of English Ballet' John Weaver |url=https://www.myshrewsbury.co.uk/blog/dance-festival-in-celebration-of-father-of-english-ballet-john-weaver/ |access-date=11 March 2023 |website=www.myshrewsbury.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> as well as the originator of pantomime,<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Weaver |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803121502615 |access-date=11 March 2023 |website=Oxford Reference |language=en}}</ref> [[John Weaver (dancer)|John Weaver]], developed his art in Shrewsbury. A second generation dancing master in the town,<ref>{{Cite book |title=Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 60 |publisher=Smith, Elder and Co., London |year=1885–1900 |editor-last=Lee |editor-first=Sidney |page=91}}Article by William George Dimock Fletcher.</ref> he founded English ballet, founded pantomime, and wrote on the philosophy, theology, statecraft and biology embedded in his era's understating of dance. Later in life he came to publish on the subject of dance, which he located in a wider understanding of his culture as representing a component of [[Ptolemy|Ptolemaic]] [[harmony]] and an earnest part of the statecraft of his time.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Taylor |first=Nancy |date=November 2001 |title=John Weaver and the Origins of English Pantomime: A Neoclassical Theory and Practice for Uniting Dance and Theatre |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-survey/article/abs/john-weaver-and-the-origins-of-english-pantomime-a-neoclassical-theory-and-practice-for-uniting-dance-and-theatre/51E38DC25AE95FF38B5890A6A2668B27 |journal=Theatre Survey |language=en |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=191–214 |doi=10.1017/S0040557401000102 |issn=1475-4533 |s2cid=143360948}}</ref>