A Treatise on the Art of Dancing

Where dances are well composed, they may give a picture, to the life, of the manners and genius of each nation and each age, in conformity to the subject respectively chosen. Bu...

Considering withal that the Romans, in their most solemn processions, as in that called the _Pompa_, which I have before mentioned, in which not only the Pirrhic dance was proce...

It was celebrated, in commemoration of a victory obtained over the Latians, the news of which was said to have been brought by Castor and Pollux, in person. This festival, was,...

As to the different characters of dances, there are, properly speaking, four divisions of the characters of dances: the serious, the half serious, the comic, and the grottesque;...

Dancing is, evidently, in its nature, an action upon the theatres; nothing is wanting to it but meaning: it moves to the right, to the left; it retrogrades, it advances, it form...

"Then handing you backwards to the top of the stage, you will begin gaily a _Pas-de-deux_, or Duet dance. The first part will be lively, the second grave; the third a jig. You w...

Nature does not refuse cultivation, but she will not bear being forced. The great art of the dancing-master is not to give graces, for that is impossible, but to call forth into...

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For the subjects of these poetical dances, the composer will undoubtedly find those which are the most likely to please, in fabulous history, especially for the serious, or path...