Dance as Text

Download or read book Dance as Text written by Mark Franko and published by Oxford Studies in Dance Theory. This book was released on 2015 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 et performed court ballets.