{"product_id":"theory-and-practice-in-eighteenth-century-dance-2","title":"Theory and Practice in Eighteenth-Century Dance","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is about the intersection of two evolving dance-historical realms—theory and practice—during the first two decades of the eighteenth century. France was the source of works on notation, choreography, and repertoire that dominated European dance practice until the 1780s. While these French inventions were welcomed and used in Germany, German dance writers responded by producing an important body of work on dance theory. This book examines consequences in Germany of this asymmetrical confrontation of dance perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eBetween 1703 and 1717 in Germany, a coherent theory of dance was postulated that called itself dance theory, comprehended why it was a theory, and clearly, rationally distinguished itself from practice. This flowering of dance-theoretical writing was contemporaneous with the appearance of Beauchamps-Feuillet notation in the \u003ci\u003eChorégraphie\u003c\/i\u003e of Raoul Auger Feuillet (Paris, 1700, 1701). Beauchamps-Feuillet notation was the ideal written representation of the dance style known as \u003ci\u003ela belle danse\u003c\/i\u003e and practiced in both the ballroom and the theater. Its publication enabled the spread of \u003ci\u003ebelle danse\u003c\/i\u003e to the French provinces and internationally. This spread encouraged the publication of new practical works (manuals, choreographies, \u003ci\u003erecueils\u003c\/i\u003e) on how to make steps and how to dance current dances, as well as of new dance treatises, in different languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eRechtschaffener Tantzmeister\u003c\/i\u003e, by Gottfried Taubert (Leipzig, 1717), includes a translated edition of Feuillet’s \u003ci\u003eChorégraphie\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eTheory and Practice in Eighteenth-Century Dance \u003c\/i\u003eaddresses how Taubert and his contemporary German authors of dance treatises (Samuel Rudolph Behr, Johann Pasch, Louis Bonin) became familiar with Beauchamps-Feuillet notation and acknowledged the \u003ci\u003eChorégraphie\u003c\/i\u003e in their own work, and how Taubert’s translation of the \u003ci\u003eChorégraphie\u003c\/i\u003e spread its influence northward and eastward in Europe. This book also examines the personal and literary interrelationships between the German writers on dance between 1703 and 1717 and their invention of a \u003ci\u003etheoria\u003c\/i\u003e of dance as a counterbalance to dance praxis, comparing their dance-theoretical ideas with those of John Weaver in England, and assimilating them all in a cohesive and inclusive description of dance theory in Europe by 1721.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tilden Russell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55086997307772,"sku":"9781644530238","price":42.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781644530238.jpg?v=1743763692","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/theory-and-practice-in-eighteenth-century-dance-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}