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Book/Printed Material Nouveau manuel complet de la danse; ou, Traité théorique et pratique de cet art depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, Encyclopédie-Roret, Danse

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Title

  • Nouveau manuel complet de la danse; ou, Traité théorique et pratique de cet art depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours,

Other Title

  • Encyclopédie-Roret, Danse

Summary

  • Although attributed to Italian dancer, choreographer, and writer Carlo Blasis, this manual contains an abridgement of Blasis's writing on the subject of social dance as published in The Code of Terpsichore (1830). The manual's discussion of specific dances is augmented by M. Lemaitre and includes quadrilles, the waltz, polka, schottisch, polka-mazurka, redowa and cotillon.

Names

  • Blasis, Carlo, 1803-1878
  • Gardel, Pierre, 1758-1840
  • Lemaître, dancing master, ed
  • Vergnaud, Paul, tr

Created / Published

  • Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1866.

Headings

  • -  Ballet
  • -  Dance--Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • -  Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals

Notes

  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.

Medium

  • 2 p.l., iv, 111, [1] p. 16 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1751 .B6 1866

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 42047945

Online Format

  • image

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Video Performers

Performers for the October 1997 Great Hall event: Dancers

Members of The Jonquil Street Foundation, Inc. Ariane Anthony, Thomas Baird, Barbara Barr, Patricia Beaman, Christopher Caines, Charles Garth, James Martin, Maris Wolff. Musicians - members of The Library of Congress Centennial Cotillion Brass Band, Emerson Head and Robert Sheldon, Leaders (Members, Metro Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians Local 161-710, AFM.)

Performers for the Coolidge Auditorium clips: Dancers

Cheryl Stafford and Thomas Baird. Musicians - Boris Gurevitch (piano), Susan Manus (violin).

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Chicago citation style:

Blasis, Carlo, Pierre Gardel, and Paul Vergnaud. Nouveau manuel complet de la danse; ou, Traité théorique et pratique de cet art depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. editeds by Lemaître, Dancing Master Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1866. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/42047945/.

APA citation style:

Blasis, C., Gardel, P. & Vergnaud, P., Lemaître, D. M., ed. (1866) Nouveau manuel complet de la danse; ou, Traité théorique et pratique de cet art depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/42047945/.

MLA citation style:

Blasis, Carlo, Pierre Gardel, and Paul Vergnaud. Nouveau manuel complet de la danse; ou, Traité théorique et pratique de cet art depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. ed by Lemaître, Dancing Master Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1866. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/42047945/>.