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The other key influences on the Cecchetti method came from his own professional career as a dancer, which exposed him to many different techniques and styles of ballet. When he began to gain a reputation as a teacher, he experimented with these various styles, fusing the best elements of each to create his own ballet technique and training system, the eponymous Cechetti method. Such was the success of Cecchetti's teaching, he is recognised as one of the key contributors to modern classical ballet, his method credited with significantly improving the teaching of classical ballet throughout Europe. Where previously ballet teaching had been haphazard and reliant on the preferences and style of the individual teacher, the Cecchetti method established the model of standardised teaching which is the basis of all professional ballet teaching today.

Initially, Cecchetti passed on his method by teaching it to his pupils and professional dancers, including well known dancers of the early 20th century, such as [[Anna Pavlova]], [[Alicia Markova]], [[George Balanchine]] and [[Serge Lifar]]. Many of his students later taught the Cecchetti method, including [[Ninette de Valois]], [[Marie Rambert]], Laura Wilson<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-laura-wilson-1097378.html | title=Laura Wilson | accessdate=2018-01-21 }}</ref>, [[Margaret Craske]] and [[Olga Preobrajenska]]. A number of professional ballet schools were established usingemploy the Cecchetti method, including the [[Royal Ballet School]], [[Rambert Ballet School]], [[National Ballet School of Canada]], and the [[Australian Ballet School]], however these schools have since developed their curriculum and no longer use Cecchetti as their primary teaching method.

In 1922, British writer and dance historian Cyril W. Beaumont collaborated with Cecchetti and Stanislas Idzikowsky to document the method in print, producing the ''Manual of the Theory and Practice of Classical Theatrical Dancing''. This continues to be the standard resource for the Cecchetti method throughout the world and it has been replicated in numerous forms, including [[Benesh Movement Notation|Benesh]] and [[Labanotation|Laban]] notation. The method was further documented by Grazioso Cecchetti, one of Enrico's sons, in his treatise, ''Classical Dance''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cicb.org/pioneers/pioneers-grazioso-cecchetti/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823060326/http://www.cicb.org/pioneers/pioneers-grazioso-cecchetti/ |archivedate=2013-08-23 }}</ref>{{Relevance-inline|date=February 2013}}.