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Baroque Dance

Baroque Dance. Baroque Dance. The term is often used in reference to the French noble dance style and technique of the late 17th- and early 18th-centuries.

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Baroque Dance

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  1. Baroque Dance

  2. Baroque Dance • The term is often used in reference to the French noble dance style and technique of the late 17th- and early 18th-centuries. • Cultivated by the dancing masters and dance activities at the court of Louis XIV, the style greatly influenced dancing in ballrooms and theatres throughout Europe.

  3. Dance and Education • Dancing was an essential social grace and given high priority in the education of Europe's upper class, or polite society. In his 1693 essay addressing education, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, English philosopher John Locke wrote that • "...nothing appears to me to give children so much becoming confidence and behaviour, and so to raise them to the conversation of those above their age, as dancing, [my emphasis] I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it. For tho' this consist only in outward gracefulness of motion, yet, I know not how, it gives children manly thoughts and carriage more than anything." (part IV, section 67)

  4. It was also thought that dancing could mitigate physical defects, as seen in this passage from Rameau's "Preface" to his 1725 dancing manual Le Maître à Danser (The Dancing Master), (Essex's 1728 English translation provided): • "For Dancing gives a Grace to the Advantages we receive from Nature, by regulating all the Motions of the Body, and strengthens it in its just Positions; and if it doth not quite efface the Defects we are born with, it softens or conceals them. This Definition alone is sufficient to shew the Use of it, and to excite a Desire of becoming a Proficient." (Rameau, 1725, p. viij-ix; Essex, 1728, p. xx)

  5. Louis XIV in the Theatre • During the early years of his reign, Louis XIV performed in theatrical works called ballets de cour such as Le Ballet de la Nuit of 1653. The Apollo costume was worn by Louis in the final act where he portrayed the "rising sun" - appropriately coinciding with actual sunrise.

  6. Dance Notation • Luckily, several systems of dance notation were being developed in France during the 1680s and a limited number of ballroom, theatre, and country dances were preserved in publications and manuscripts.

  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvaYhS4ujbA • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ay1kAK0YA • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=418-Lzfhu0I&feature=related

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