Footprints of the dance : an early seventeenth-century dance master's notebook / by Jennifer Nevile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nevile, Jennifer, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Drama and theatre in early modern Europe ; 8.

Drama and theatre in early modern Europe ; volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Belgium--Brussels--History--17th century.

Dance.

Dance--Study and teaching--Belgium--Brussels.

Dance--Study and teaching.

History.

Belgium--Brussels.

Physical Description:

xii, 285 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

Footprints of the Dance - An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master's Notebook by Jennifer Nevile provides new, fascinating and detailed information on the life of an early-seventeenth-century dance master in Brussels. The dance master's handwritten notebook contains unique material: a canon of dance figures and instructions for an exhibition with a pike; as well as signatures and general descriptions of his students, ballet plots and music associated with dancing. Reproduced for the first time are facsimile images of all the dance-related material, with transcriptions and translations of the ballet plots and instructions for the pike exhibition. The dance master is revealed as an active choreographer and performer, with strong ties to the French court musical establishment, and interested in fireworks and alchemy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9004361790

9789004361799

OCLC:

1041898116