TY  - ADVS
AU  - Perrier,Charles
AU  - Schroder,Kevin
AU  - Whitley-Bauguess,Paige
AU  - Baird,Thomas
AU  - Partsch-Bergsohn,Isa
AU  - Bergsohn,Harold
AU  - Herbineaux,Pierre
ED  - Dance Horizons Video (Firm)
ED  - Contemporary Arts Media (Firm)
TI  - Early dance
U1  - 793.309 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - South Fremantle, Western Australia
PB  - Contemporary Arts Media
KW  - Ballet
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Dance
KW  - France
KW  - Commedia dell'arte
N1  - "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.]
N2  - 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
ER  -