Chorégraphie, ou, L'art d'écrire la danse
Subtitle: contenant deux planches
Contributors: Cahusac, Louis de, 1706-1759
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1772
Place of publication: Livorno
Language: fre
Subjects: Dance notation; Pictorial works; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Art d'écrire la danse; Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des arts et des métiers.
Notes: Diagrams showing movements danced in theatrical productions.

Caption title.

Possibly by (Jean) Louis de Cahusac. See Lough. Contributors to the "Encyclopédie", c1973, p. 76.

First plate consists entirely of dance notation; second plate has dance notation and also a few measures of music, which the text (leaf 1) describes as, "Les dix premieres mesures du pas de deux lutteurs, dansé par MM. Dupré & Javillier dans l'opéra des fêtes Greques & Romaines."

Extracted from Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des arts et des métiers, 1751-1765(?)