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 Encyclopédie 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 Encyclopédie and its Supplément, the Encyclopédie méthodique, and the Encyclopédie 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 Encyclopédie méthodique presented ballet in a way that diverged radically from both the Encyclopédie and Noverre's Lettres sur la danse.
| ISBN: | 9781800859906 |
| Publication date: | 21st January 2022 |
| Author: | Olivia Sabee |
| Publisher: | Voltaire Foundation an imprint of Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment |
| Genres: |
Western philosophy: Enlightenment Ballet Dance |
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 Encyclopédie 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 Encyclopédie and its Supplément, the Encyclopédie méthodique, and the Encyclopédie 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 Encyclopédie méthodique presented ballet in a way that diverged radically from both the Encyclopédie and Noverre's Lettres sur la danse.
Theories of Ballet in the Age of the Encyclopédie features in the following genres: Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Ballet, Dance
Theories of Ballet in the Age of the Encyclopédie is available in Paperback
Theories of Ballet in the Age of the Encyclopédie was written by Olivia Sabee and published by Voltaire Foundation an imprint of Liverpool University Press
Theories of Ballet in the Age of the Encyclopédie has 192 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series