The dancing-master: or, The art of dancing explained.
Subtitle: Wherein the manner of performing all steps in ball dancing is made easy by a new and familiar method. In two parts ... The whole containing sixty figures drawn from the life, and curiously engraved on copper plates.
By: Done from the French of Monsieur Rameau, by J. Essex ...
Contributors: Essex, John, tr.
Publisher: Printed and sold by him, and J. Brotherton
Published: 1728
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Dance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800.; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Dancing-master; Art of dancing explained
Description: This is a translation of one of the most important sources for the study and reconstruction of eighteenth-century dance--Pierre Rameau's 1725 Le maître a danser. Translated by English dancer and writer John Essex (c. 1680-1744), part one of the text and accompanying full-page plates carefully focus on the appropriate manner of walking, feet positions, and bows, and describe a large vocabulary of steps. Part two covers use of the arms while dancing. This English translation was reissued in 1732.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.