Dance as text : ideologies of the baroque body /
This is a historical and theoretical examination of French baroque court ballet from approximately 1573 until 1670. Spanning the late Renaissance and the Baroque, it brings aesthetic and ideological criteria to bear on court ballet libretti, period accounts, contemporaneous performance theory, and r...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | [New edition]. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This is a historical and theoretical examination of French baroque court ballet from approximately 1573 until 1670. Spanning the late Renaissance and the Baroque, it brings aesthetic and ideological criteria to bear on court ballet libretti, period accounts, contemporaneous performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in literature. It studies the formal choreographic apparatus that characterises late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle and how its changing aesthetic ultimately reflected the political situation of the nobles who devised & performed court ballets. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190241186 0190241187 |