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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Chorégraphie, ou L'art de décrire la dance par caracteres, figures et signes desmonstratifs, avec lesquels on apprend facilement de soy même toutes sortes de dances. Par Mrs Feuillet et Dezais ...

Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, 1659 or 60-1710.

OTHER TITLES
Chorégraphie

Art de décrire la dance par caracteres, figures et signes desmonstratifs

CREATED/PUBLISHED
A Paris, Chez le Sr Dezais, 1713.

SUMMARY
Originally published in 1700, this manual details a dance notation system that indicates the placement of the feet and six basic leg movements: plié, releveé, sauté, cabriole, tombé, and glissé. Changes of body direction and numerous ornamentations of the legs and arms are also part of the system. The system is based on tract drawings that trace the pattern of the dance. Additionaly, bar lines in the dance score correspond to bar lines in the music score. Signs written on the right or left hand side of the tract indicate the steps. Chorégraphie was reprinted three times and translated into English by John Weater in 1706.

NOTES
Engraved throughout.

Contains music.

With this are bound the author's Recueil de dances ... Paris, 1709, and Recueil de dances, composées par M. Pecour ... et mise sur le papier par M. Feuillet ... Paris, 1709.

SUBJECTS
Dance--Early works to 1800.
Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Theatrical Dance.
Music for Dance.

RELATED NAMES
Dezais, Jacques, fl. 1680-1722, joint author.

MEDIUM
3 p.l., 95 p. diagrs. 24 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1590 .F5

DIGITAL ID
musdi 072 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.072

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Video clip for p. 44) - Coupe glisse from Table des Coupes
(Video clip for p. 45) - Coupe ouverte, from Table des Coupes
(Video clip for p. 53) - Pas de bouree from Table de Pas de Bouree, ou Fleurets

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