The Age of the Baroque and Enlightenment 1600-1800: Dance

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chapter two
DANCE

PhilipM.Soergel

IMPORTANT EVENTS … 70
OVERVIEW … 74
TOPICS

Social Dance in the Baroque … 76
Dance in Court Spectacle … 81
The Rise of the Ballet in France … 83
The Ballet Elsewhere in Europe … 88
Social Dance in the Eighteenth Century … 91
The Enlightenment and Ballet … 94
Ballet in an Age of Revolution … 98

SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE

Gasparo Angiolini … 100
Marie-Ann de Cupis de Camargo … 101
Jean-Georges Noverre … 102
Gaetano Vestris … 103
John Weaver … 105

DOCUMENTARY SOURCES … 106

SIDEBARS AND PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Primary sources are listed in italics
Embarrassed Before the King (excerpt from Rouvroy's memoirs concerning dance at court) … 78
Dancing Revives at Court (letter from Charlotte Elizabeth describing a masked ball) … 80
The Masque of Queenes (prologue to Jones and Jonson's The Masque of Queenes) … 82
The Importance of Dancing (excerpt from Lully and Moliére's play
The Bourgeois Gentleman) … 85
Athletics, Not Dance (Grimm attacks the use of ballet in opera) … 88
Of Mimes and Pantomimes (excerpt from Weaver's work encouraging the revival of pantomime) … 89
Hijinks at a Ball (excerpt from Casanova's journals) … 93
Criticism of Dance (introduction to Diderot's The Natural Son, criticizing ballet) … 94

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