Early dance.
Early dance. Part 2, The Baroque era [videorecording] /
Baroque era
directed by Harold Bergsohn ; written and produced by sa Partsch-Bergsohn.
- South Fremantle, Western Australia : Contemporary Arts Media, c1995.
- 1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
"Contemporary arts media educating imagination"--Container. Originally published by: Dance Horizons Video.
Dance excerpts: Harlequin / choreography and performance, Charles Perrier -- Demonstration of basic body positions / by Kevin Schroder -- Folie d'espagne dance variations [excerpts] / music, Martin Marais ; danced by Paige Whitley-Bauguess and Thomas Baird -- Passacaille for a man and a woman from Jean Baptiste Lully's opera Persée, arranged as a solo and performed as a theatrical dance in a mask / choreography, Louis Pécour ; danced by Paige Whitley-Bauguess.
Narrators, Pierre Herbineaux ... [et al.].
Lecture on the history of dance, illustrated with contemporary paintings and prints. Topics include the influence of the Italian commedia dell'arte on entertainments during the reign of Louis XIII of France; the development of dance into a theatrical art form, as evinced by La délivrance de Renaud; the court ballet under Louis XIV, beginning with the Ballet de la nuit; the contributions of Jean Baptiste Lully; horse ballets; ballets at Versailles, particularly Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée; Le bourgeois gentilhomme as an example of the comédie-ballets of Lully and Molière; the establishment of the Academy of the Dance (later the Paris Opéra) under the leadership of Pierre Beauchamps; the stage designs of Jean Bérain; the opera ballet Le triomphe de l'amour and the rise of the professional dancer; social dancing.
DVD, PAL.
Ballet--History--17th century.
Ballet--History--18th century.
Dance--France--17th century.
Commedia dell'arte.
Dance--History.
793.309 / EAR 1995
"Contemporary arts media educating imagination"--Container. Originally published by: Dance Horizons Video.
Dance excerpts: Harlequin / choreography and performance, Charles Perrier -- Demonstration of basic body positions / by Kevin Schroder -- Folie d'espagne dance variations [excerpts] / music, Martin Marais ; danced by Paige Whitley-Bauguess and Thomas Baird -- Passacaille for a man and a woman from Jean Baptiste Lully's opera Persée, arranged as a solo and performed as a theatrical dance in a mask / choreography, Louis Pécour ; danced by Paige Whitley-Bauguess.
Narrators, Pierre Herbineaux ... [et al.].
Lecture on the history of dance, illustrated with contemporary paintings and prints. Topics include the influence of the Italian commedia dell'arte on entertainments during the reign of Louis XIII of France; the development of dance into a theatrical art form, as evinced by La délivrance de Renaud; the court ballet under Louis XIV, beginning with the Ballet de la nuit; the contributions of Jean Baptiste Lully; horse ballets; ballets at Versailles, particularly Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée; Le bourgeois gentilhomme as an example of the comédie-ballets of Lully and Molière; the establishment of the Academy of the Dance (later the Paris Opéra) under the leadership of Pierre Beauchamps; the stage designs of Jean Bérain; the opera ballet Le triomphe de l'amour and the rise of the professional dancer; social dancing.
DVD, PAL.
Ballet--History--17th century.
Ballet--History--18th century.
Dance--France--17th century.
Commedia dell'arte.
Dance--History.
793.309 / EAR 1995