Dance History Articles

These are articles about dance history from our blog, from the most recent to the oldest

Baroque period

24/04/2020

A discussion of Baroque dance notation. Louis XIV ordered academicians to invent a notational system to record dances. At least four systems were in progress in the 1680s, one of which, now known as Beauchamp-Feuillet notation, came to disseminate dances of French style across Europe by means of printing/publishing businesses.
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What is historical dance?

17/07/2019

A very brief overview of some of the periods and dances covered by the term ‘historical dance’.
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