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- Title
From dance to poem: Jean-Féry Rebel, Françoise Prévost and the character of dance in early 18th-century France.
- Authors
Burgess, Geoffrey
- Abstract
Jean-Féry Rebel's Caractères de la Danse (c.1715) has played a prominent role in the revival of French Baroque dance; a contemporaneous poetic parody supplements the work's potential value as a guide to understanding 18th-century choreography. Presenting new evidence on the identity of the poet and the parody's purpose, this article proposes that, rather describing the original choreography, the poem tells another story: that of the character of Françoise Prévost, the dancer who premiered the work. This in turn has important implications for the incorporation of pantomime in Baroque choreography.
- Subjects
FRANCE; REBEL, Jean-Fery; BAROQUE aesthetics; FRENCH aesthetics; DANCE; LES Caracteres De La Danse (Music); FRENCH opera; HISTORY; EIGHTEENTH century
- Publication
Early Music, 2018, Vol 46, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
0306-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/em/cay006