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Download or read book Orchesography written by Thoinot Arbeau and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1967-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most valuable resource for 16th-century dances and dance music, this volume describes galliards, pavans, branles, gavottes, lavolta, basse dance, morris dance, and more, with detailed instructions of steps. 44 illustrations.
Book Synopsis Playthings in Early Modernity by : Allison Levy
Download or read book Playthings in Early Modernity written by Allison Levy and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory, Playthings in Early Modernity emphasizes the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. Thus, the titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part of daily life, a strategic psychosocial endeavor.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance by : Lynsey McCulloch
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance written by Lynsey McCulloch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's texts have a long and close relationship with many different types of dance, from dance forms referenced in the plays to adaptations across many genres today. With contributions from experienced and emerging scholars, this handbook provides a concise reference on dance as both an integral feature of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century culture and as a means of translating Shakespearean text into movement - a process that raises questions of authorship and authority, cross-cultural communication, semantics, embodiment, and the relationship between word and image. Motivated by growing interest in movement, materiality, and the body, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance is the first collection to examine the relationship between William Shakespeare - his life, works, and afterlife - and dance. In the handbook's first section - Shakespeare and Dance - authors consider dance within the context of early modern life and culture and investigate Shakespeare's use of dance forms within his writing. The latter half of the handbook - Shakespeare as Dance - explores the ways that choreographers have adapted Shakespeare's work. Chapters address everything from narrative ballet adaptations to dance in musicals, physical theater adaptations, and interpretations using non-Western dance forms such as Cambodian traditional dance or igal, an indigenous dance form from the southern Philippines. With a truly interdisciplinary approach, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance provides an indispensable resource for considerations of dance and corporeality on Shakespeare's stage and the early modern era.
Book Synopsis Orchesography, Or, The Art of Dancing by : Raoul-Auger Feuillet
Download or read book Orchesography, Or, The Art of Dancing written by Raoul-Auger Feuillet and published by . This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account written by Raoul Auger Feuillet who was a French dance notator, publisher and choreographer, about the terms and explanations belonging to dancing.
Book Synopsis Ballet in Western Culture by : Carol Lee
Download or read book Ballet in Western Culture written by Carol Lee and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the development of ballet from the origins of dance through the 20th century.
Book Synopsis The Dance of Society by : Wm. B. De Garmo
Download or read book The Dance of Society written by Wm. B. De Garmo and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Book Synopsis The Dance of Society by : William B. De Garmo
Download or read book The Dance of Society written by William B. De Garmo and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual was originally published in 1864 with subsequent editions in 1865, 1866, and 1868 when the author noted that many of the dances were no longer fashionable. Typical of other late nineteenth-century manuals, much of the text is borrowed from other writers. The manual provides a brief section on etiquette and describes the popular ballroom dances of the era--quadrille, polka redowa, polka mazurka, schottisch, galop, and cotillon. Reflecting a growing interest in the dances of the past, De Garmo provides directions and music for the "Menuet de la Cour." The manual was reissued in 1884.
Book Synopsis The Gentleman Dancing-Master by : Jennifer Thorp
Download or read book The Gentleman Dancing-Master written by Jennifer Thorp and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gentleman Dancing-Master: Mr Isaac and the English Royal Court from Charles II to Queen Anne considers the life and times of the dancer known as Mr Isaac, performer, teacher and creator of prestigious dances for performance at the royal court. Includes facsimiles and discussion of his surviving dances and their context.
Book Synopsis The Dance of Society by : William B. De Garmo
Download or read book The Dance of Society written by William B. De Garmo and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Book Synopsis The Almain in Britain, c.1549-c.1675 by : Ian Payne
Download or read book The Almain in Britain, c.1549-c.1675 written by Ian Payne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete scholarly edition of the collection of manuscript choreographies from c.1565-c.1675 associated with the Inns of Court is the first full-length study of these sources to be published. It offers practical reconstructions of the dances and provides a selection of musical settings simply but idiomatically arranged for four-part instrumental ensemble or keyboard. Part One centres on the manuscript sources which transmit the Almain, and on the trends and influences that shaped its evolution in Britain from c. 1549 to c. 1675, taking account of both music and choreography. In viewing the Almain within its broader historical context, Ian Payne throws new light on the dance, arguing that, together with the measures which accompany it in the choreographies, it owes an even greater debt to the English country dance than has hitherto been acknowledged, a popular style that received its fullest expression in Playford's English Dancing Master of 1651. The second part of the book focuses on the dances themselves. The steps are described in detail and reconstructions provided for the nine Almains and some of the other measures included in the manuscripts. Part Three comprises a complete critical edition of the manuscripts. These easily performable versions of the dances will be an invaluable aid to those wishing to learn the dances, reconstruct them for stagings of Shakespeare's plays or Jacobean masques, and for dance historians.
Book Synopsis Choreographing Empathy by : Susan Leigh Foster
Download or read book Choreographing Empathy written by Susan Leigh Foster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an urgently needed book – as the question of choreographing behavior enters into realms outside of the aesthetic domains of theatrical dance, Susan Foster writes a thoroughly compelling argument." – André Lepecki, New York University "May well prove to be one of Susan Foster’s most important works." – Ramsay Burt, De Montford University, UK What do we feel when we watch dancing? Do we "dance along" inwardly? Do we sense what the dancer’s body is feeling? Do we imagine what it might feel like to perform those same moves? If we do, how do these responses influence how we experience dancing and how we derive significance from it? Choreographing Empathy challenges the idea of a direct psychophysical connection between the body of a dancer and that of their observer. In this groundbreaking investigation, Susan Foster argues that the connection is in fact highly mediated and influenced by ever-changing sociocultural mores. Foster examines the relationships between three central components in the experience of watching a dance – the choreography, the kinesthetic sensations it puts forward, and the empathetic connection that it proposes to viewers. Tracing the changing definitions of choreography, kinesthesia, and empathy from the 1700s to the present day, she shows how the observation, study, and discussion of dance have changed over time. Understanding this development is key to understanding corporeality and its involvement in the body politic.
Book Synopsis Dancing the New World by : Paul A. Scolieri
Download or read book Dancing the New World written by Paul A. Scolieri and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize in Dance Research, 2014 Honorable Mention, Sally Banes Publication Prize, American Society for Theatre Research, 2014 de la Torre Bueno® Special Citation, Society of Dance History Scholars, 2013 From Christopher Columbus to “first anthropologist” Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and travelers wrote about the “Indian” dances they encountered throughout the New World. This was especially true of Spanish missionaries who intensively studied and documented native dances in an attempt to identify and eradicate the “idolatrous” behaviors of the Aztec, the largest indigenous empire in Mesoamerica at the time of its European discovery. Dancing the New World traces the transformation of the Aztec empire into a Spanish colony through written and visual representations of dance in colonial discourse—the vast constellation of chronicles, histories, letters, and travel books by Europeans in and about the New World. Scolieri analyzes how the chroniclers used the Indian dancing body to represent their own experiences of wonder and terror in the New World, as well as to justify, lament, and/or deny their role in its political, spiritual, and physical conquest. He also reveals that Spaniards and Aztecs shared an understanding that dance played an important role in the formation, maintenance, and representation of imperial power, and describes how Spaniards compelled Indians to perform dances that dramatized their own conquest, thereby transforming them into colonial subjects. Scolieri’s pathfinding analysis of the vast colonial “dance archive” conclusively demonstrates that dance played a crucial role in one of the defining moments in modern history—the European colonization of the Americas.
Book Synopsis Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England by : Alison Sim
Download or read book Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England written by Alison Sim and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Tudors enjoy themselves? For the men and women of Tudor England there was, just as there is today, more to life than work. Four hundred years before the invention of television and radio, they did not lead boring or mundane lives. Indeed, in many ways the richness of Tudor entertainment shames us. While continuing the medieval tradition of tournament and pageantry, the Tudors also increasingly read and attended the theatre. Dancing and music were also popular, and were considered just as important as hunting and fighting for an ambitious Tudor's social skills. Church festivals provided the perfect excuse for revelry, and christenings and weddings were, as they are today, great social occasions. Here, Alison Sim explores the full range of entertainments enjoyed at that time covering everything from card games and bear baiting to interior design.
Book Synopsis The Music of Arbeau's Orchesographie by : Gustavia Yvonne Kendall
Download or read book The Music of Arbeau's Orchesographie written by Gustavia Yvonne Kendall and published by Dance and Music. This book was released on 2013 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, G. Yvonne Kendall situates Orchesographie, the most widely-known dance manual of Renaissance Europe among contemporary sources from France, Italy, England, and Spain. This manual, penned under the pseudonym Thoinot Arbeau, contains 47 choreographies. Kendall places Orchesographie in the cultural context of sixteenth-century France by examining Arbeau's life and training, and the lives of many influential men and women who supported dance during the religious struggles of the Reformation. Dr. Kendall calls attention to many details of culture and performance in Orchesographie that have never before been sufficiently acknowledged. She uses her extensive skills as a musicologist, dance history scholar, dance reconstructor, and performer of both historical dance and instruments to explain the extremely diverse dance genres Arbeau preserved. A major portion of the book comprises a comprehensive group of music concordances based on tunes that Arbeau presented. Solo, partsong, and instrumental consort musical settings for eighty percent of Orchesographie's tunes have been identified and transcribed into modern notation. The commentary includes text translations and supplemental historical data. This engaging book serves the needs of scholars, dancers, and musicians by making available, for the first time, a detailed yet far-reaching analysis of a major source.
Download or read book Orchesography written by Thoinot Arbeau and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Orchesography, Or, the Art of Dancing by : Raoul-Auger Feuillet
Download or read book Orchesography, Or, the Art of Dancing written by Raoul-Auger Feuillet and published by . This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raoul-Auger Feuillet's seminal work, 'Orchesography, or, the Art of Dancing,' is a fundamental text in the study of Baroque dance, describing the art form with meticulous attention to detail and a scientific approach to movement. Feuillet's treatise, with its rich literary style, places the reader directly into the context of 17th-century dance, offering an extraordinary lens into the period's aesthetics through its demonstrative figures and written characters. As a cornerstone in the cannon of dance literature, Feuillet's guide not only delineates steps but also reflects upon the era's social grace and the intertwining of movement and music. The literary context echoes the classicism and formality seen in the court of Louis XIV, where such precise and elegant dancing reached its height of sophistication and cultural importance.nHaving been a renowned French dance notator and choreographer himself, Raoul-Auger Feuillet was at the pinnacle of crafting what would become the formal language of dance notation. His deep understanding of the mechanics of dance and connection to the royal court invariably led to the creation of this eloquent manual. Feuillet's system of notation, conveyed within the pages, was instrumental in the dissemination of dance knowledge across Europe, influencing the development of ballet and preserving the choreography for future generations to appreciate and analyze. His work serves not only as a practical guide but as a historical document that captures the essence of an era that deeply revered the art of dance.nThis edition of 'Orchesography, or, the Art of Dancing' is recommended for scholars of dance history, practitioners of classical ballet, and anyone interested in experiencing a pivotal era of performance art through the lens of its most celebrated choreographer. DigiCat Publishing's dedicated reproduction of Feuillet's landmark text ensures that the elegance and ingenuity of Baroque dance can continue to inspire and inform. Readers will find themselves swept into the grandeur and preciseness of the past, enriching their understanding of dance's lineage and its enduring cultural impact.
Download or read book Orchesography written by Thoinot Arbeau and published by London : C. W. Beaumont. This book was released on 1925 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
