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Révérence Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...foot and the walk resumed. The lady's Courtesies (curtsies) were simpler. With the weight supported equally on both feet, the legs rotated outward, she had only to bend, then straighten her knees while lowering and raising the gaze, her head remaining absolutely upright. A profound Courtesy, however, required the heels of the shoes to be raised from the floor. In a Courtesy backward, the lady moved her front foot to the side and closed the other foot to it, making her Honour with the feet together. In the Courtesy forward, and in passing, her feet were...
Weaver, John (July 1673) Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...to demonstrate, through a survey of its religious use and symbolism, that dance was one of the oldest and most fundamental human activities. Weaver also gave a full defense of dance as a social accomplishment for both gentlemen and ladies. Some of his arguments were current in courtesy literature, but they had not been fully marshaled before. Weaver found an unexpected ally in the philosopher John Locke , whose ideas on the educational benefits of dance he quoted at length, and in Francis Fuller , a physician whose fashionable promotion of exercise for...
Spain Reference library
Nèlida Monés i Mestre
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...published works on a wide range of subjects; his dance books included several important works which incorporated the French dance notation of Raoul-Auger Feuillet . Other dance works included a manuscript work by Juan Antonio Jaque and published books by Felipe Roxo de Flores ( 1793 ), Don Preciso (pseudonym of J. A. Iza Zamacola y Ozerin) ( 1796 ), Cairón ( 1820 ), and Biosca ( 1832 ). The literature of the late eighteenth century reflected changes in dance genres, with the publication of books on the technique or “science” of playing castanets. This...
Social Dance Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...from the primary sources—the dance instruction books, which over time provide increasingly detailed information about the execution of individual steps, their combinations into dance phrases, and the structure of complete choreographies. That the manuals also deal extensively with the codes of accepted behavior on and away from the dance floor and with style and gesture makes them rich sources of information about the social graces of a given period; they rank in importance with the courtesy literature and books on education in conveying information about the...
Great Britain Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...dance—has been available primarily through private teachers and schools. Although these two kinds of instruction have begun to merge, they are discussed separately here. Dance education goes back at least to the sixteenth century, when dancing included the study of manners and courtesies and was an important part of the education of every upper-class Renaissance gentleman and gentlewoman. Consequently, dancing masters had considerable status in many aristocratic and noble households, and they retained a significant social influence into the nineteenth century....
