Letters on dancing
Subtitle: reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles ...
By: By E. A. Théleur ... Illustrated by twenty-four copper-plate engravings, by Stewart, Halpin, Hicks and Read ...
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Printed for the Author by Sherwood & Co.
Published: 1832
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Ballet -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals; Notation for Dance; Music for Dance
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: This manual is considered one of the most important discussions regarding the style and steps of early Romantic ballet. A dancer and dancing master, Théleur (née Taylor; fl. c. 1817-c. 1844), wrote his manual in the form of a series of thirteen letters that includes a brief history of dance as well as a section devoted to social dance. The book is enhanced by full-page prints, including illustrations of dancers on full pointe. Théleurʼs dance notation system, the first in the nineteenth century, also helps illuminate theatrical dance practices of the time.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.
4 leaves of music not included in paging.