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Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era in Europe (roughly 1600–1750), closely linked with Baroque music, theater and opera. For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ...
Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens. ...
World map showing Europe Political map Europe is one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ...
Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 to 1750 (see Dates of classical music eras for a discussion of the problems inherent in defining the beginning and end points). ...
English Country Dance
The majority of surviving choreographies from the period are English country dances, such as those in the many editions of Playford's The Dancing Master. English country dance survived well beyond the Baroque era and eventually spread in various forms across Europe and its colonies, and to all levels of society. See the article on English country dance for more information. English Country Dance, sometimes abbreviated ECD, is a form of folk dance. ...
John Playford was born in Norwich in 1623 and died in London in 1686. ...
The Dancing Master was a dancing manual containing the music and instructions for English country dances. ...
English Country Dance, sometimes abbreviated ECD, is a form of folk dance. ...
The French Noble Style The great innovations in dance in the 17th-century originated at the French court under Louis XIV, and it is here that we see the first clear stylistic ancestor of classical ballet. The same basic technique was used both at social events, and as theatrical dance in court ballets and at public theaters. The style of dance is commonly known to modern scholars as the French noble style or belle danse (French, literally "beautiful dance"), however it is often referred to casually as baroque dance in spite of the existence of other theatrical and social dance styles during the baroque era. Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715), reigned as King of France and of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death at the age of 77. ...
Classical ballet is a dance to classical music. ...
Primary sources include more than three hundred choreographies in Beauchamp-Feuillet notation[1][2], as well as manuals by Raoul Auger Feuillet and Pierre Rameau in France, Kellom Tomlinson and John Weaver in England, and Gottfried Taubert in Germany. This wealth of evidence has allowed modern scholars and dancers to recreate the style, although areas of controversy still exist. The standard modern introduction is Hilton[3]. Notation for bar of a French courante Beauchamp–Feuillet notation is a system of dance notation used in Baroque dance. ...
Raoul Auger Feuillet (c1653–c1709) was a French dance notator, publisher and choreographer most well-known today for his Chorégraphie, ou lart de décrire la danse (Paris, 1700) which described Beauchamp-Feuillet notation, and his subsequent collections of ballroom and theatrical dances. ...
Pierre Rameau (1674-1748) was a French dancing master. ...
John Weaver (July 21, 1673 - September 24, 1760) was a dancer and choreographer and is commonly known as the father of English pantomime. ...
French dance types include:
The English, working in the French style, added their own hornpipe to this list. The bourree was a dance common in Auvergne and Biscay in Spain in the 17th century, danced in quick double time, somewhat resembling the gavotte. ...
In music a chaconne is a musical form. ...
Courante is a dance from the Baroque era and of French origin. ...
The gavotte is a French folk dance which takes its name from the Gavot people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné, where the dance originated. ...
The gigue or giga is a lively baroque dance in a compound metre such as 3/8, 6/8, 6/4, 9/8 or 12/16. ...
A minuet, sometimes spelled menuet, is a social dance of French origin for two persons, usually in 3/4 time. ...
A musette is a type of bellows blown bagpipe found in rural France. ...
In music a passacaglia (French: passacaille, Spanish: pasacalle) is a musical form and the corresponding court dance. ...
The paspy (French: passepied - passing feet) is a 17th and 18th century dance that originated in Brittany. ...
In music, the sarabande (It. ...
A tambourin is a piece of music in imitation of a drum, coming from the French word tambourin meaning an old type of drum. ...
The hornpipe is a traditional English folk dance in 2/4 or 4/4 time. ...
Many of these dance types are familiar from classical music, perhaps most spectacularly in the stylized suites of J. S. Bach[4]. Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ...
It has been suggested that Suite_de_Danses be merged into this article or section. ...
Bach redirects here. ...
Theatrical Dance The French noble style was danced both at social events and by professional dancers in theatrical productions such as opera-ballets and court entertainments. However, 18th century theatrical dance had at least two other styles: comic or grotesque, and semi-serious[5][6].
Other Social Dance Styles Other dance styles, such as the Italian and Spanish dances of the period are much less well studied than either English country dance or the French style. The general picture seems to be that during most of the 17th-century, a style close to that of late Renaissance dance was widespread, but as time progressed, French ballroom dances such as the minuet were widely adopted at fashionable courts. Beyond this, the evolution and cross-fertilisation of dance styles is an area of ongoing research. By Region: Italian Renaissance Northern Renaissance -French Renaissance -German Renaissance -English Renaissance Renaissance dances belong to the broad group of historical dances. ...
Modern Reconstructions The renewed interest in baroque music in the 1960's and '70's sparked greater interest in 17th and 18th century dance styles also. While some 300 of these dances had been preserved in Beauchamp-Feuillet notation, it wasn't until at the mid-20th century that serious scholarship commenced in deciphering the notation and reconstructing the dances. Notation for bar of a French courante Beauchamp–Feuillet notation is a system of dance notation used in Baroque dance. ...
Perhaps the best known among these pioneers was Britain's Melusine Wood, who published several books on historical dancing in the 1950's including More Historical Dances. Miss Wood passed her research on to her student Belinda Quirey, and also to Pavlova Company ballerina & choreographer Mary Skeaping (1902-1984). The latter became well known for her reconstructions of baroque ballets for London's "Ballet for All" company in the 1960's.
The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include french choreographer Francine Lancelot (1929-2003) who put her research into practice when she founded the baroque dance company Ris et Danceries in 1980. Her work in choregraphing for the 1986 production of Lully's 1686 tragedie-lyrique "Atys" with William Christie's Les Art Florissants is well known. Wendy Hilton (1931-2002), a student of Belinda Quirey supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources. A native of Britain, Hilton arrived in the U.S. in 1969 joining the faculty of the Juilliard School in 1972 and establishing her own baroque dance workshop at Stanford University in 1974 which endured for more than 25 years. William Christie can refer to: William Henry Mahoney Christie (1845–1922), astronomer. ...
References - ^ Little, Meredith Ellis and Marsh, Carol G. La Danse Noble, An Inventory of Dances and Sources, (Broude Brothers Ltd, 1992) ISBN 0-8450-0092-6
- ^ Lancelot, Francine, La Belle Dance: Catalogue Raisonné, (Van Dieren Editeur, 1996) ISBN 2-911087-02-X
- ^ Hilton, Wendy, Dance and Music of Court and Theater: Selected Writings of Wendy Hilton (Pendragon Press, 1997) ISBN 0-945193-98-x
- ^ Little, Meredith and Jenne, Natalie. Dance and the Music of J.S. Bach (Indiana University Press, 1991, 2001) ISBN 0-253-21464-5
- ^ Fairfax, Edmund. The Styles of Eighteenth-Century Ballet (Scarecrow Press, 2003) ISBN 0-8108-4698-5
- ^ Harris-Warrick, Rebecca and Brown, Bruce Alan, editors. The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth Century Stage (The University of Wisconsin Press, 2005) ISBN 0-299-20354-9
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