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Theories of Ballet in the Age of the Encyclopedie (Paperback)
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Theories of Ballet in the Age of the Encyclopedie (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2022:01
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In Enlightenment Europe, a new form of pantomime ballet emerged,
through the dual channels of theorization in print and
experimentation onstage. Emphasizing eighteenth-century ballet's
construction through print culture, Theories of Ballet in the Age
of the Encyclopedie follows two parallel paths-standalone treatises
on ballet and dance and encyclopedias-to examine the shifting
definition of ballet over the second half of the eighteenth
century. Bringing together the Encyclopedie and its Supplement, the
Encyclopedie methodique, and the Encyclopedie d'Yverdon with the
works of Jean-Georges Noverre, Louis de Cahusac, and Charles
Compan, it traces how the recycling and recombining of discourses
about dance, theatre, and movement arts directly affected the
process of defining ballet. At the same time, it emphasizes the
role of textual borrowing and compilation in disseminating
knowledge during the Enlightenment, examining the differences
between placing borrowed texts into encyclopedias of various types
as well as into journal format, arguing that context has the
potential to play a role equally important to content in shaping a
reader's understanding, and that the Encyclopedie methodique
presented ballet in a way that diverged radically from both the
Encyclopedie and Noverre's Lettres sur la danse.
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