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Early dance, [Part 2], the Baroque era

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division

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Early dance

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Title
Early dance, [Part 2], the Baroque era
Names
Pécourt, Guillaume Louis, 1653-1729 (Choreographer)
Perrier, Charles (Choreographer)
Perrier, Charles (Dancer)
Schroder, Kevin (Dancer)
Whitley-Bauguess, Paige (Dancer)
Baird, Thomas (Dancer) (Dancer)
Partsch-Bergsohn, Isa (Producer)
Bergsohn, Harold (Director)
Dance Horizons (Firm). Video (Videographer)
Collection

General Dance Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1995
Place: Pennington, NJ
Publisher: distributed by Princeton Book Company, Publishers
Table of Contents
Dance excerpts: Harlequin / choreography and performance, Charles Perrier -- Demonstration of basic body positions / by Kevin Schroder -- Folie d'espagne dance variations [excerpts] / music, Martin Marais ; danced by Paige Whitley-Bauguess and Thomas Baird -- Passacaille for a man and a woman from Jean Baptiste Lully's opera Persée, arranged as a solo and performed as a theatrical dance in a mask / choreography, Louis Pécour ; danced by Paige Whitley-Bauguess.
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-7264
Topics
Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643
Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715
Lully, Jean-Baptiste, 1632-1687
Molière, 1622-1673. Bourgeois gentilhomme
Beauchamp, Pierre, 1631-1705
Bérain, Jean, 1640-1711
Opéra de Paris
Délivrance de Renaud (Choreographic work : Belleville)
Ballet de la nuit [1634] (Choreographic work)
Plaisirs de l'îsle enchantée (Choreographic work)
Triomphe de l'amour (Choreographic work : Beauchamps)
Ballet -- History -- 17th century
Ballet -- History -- 18th century
Dance -- France -- 17th century
Commedia dell'arte
Genres
Filmed dance
Filmed performances
Educational films
Lectures
Notes
Statement of responsibility: directed by Hal [Harold] Bergsohn ; written and produced by Isa Partsch-Bergsohn.
Content: Part number from wrapper.
Performers: Narrators, Pierre Herbineaux, Mary Maher, Carrie Patterson, and John M. Wilson.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (31 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Description
Lecture on the history of dance, illustrated with contemporary paintings and prints. Topics include the influence of the Italian commedia dell'arte on entertainments during the reign of Louis XIII of France; the development of dance into a theatrical art form, as evinced by La délivrance de Renaud; the court ballet under Louis XIV, beginning with the Ballet de la nuit; the contributions of Jean Baptiste Lully; horse ballets; ballets at Versailles, particularly Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée; Le bourgeois gentilhomme as an example of the comédie-ballets of Lully and Molière; the establishment of the Academy of the Dance (later the Paris Opéra) under the leadership of Pierre Beauchamp; the stage designs of Jean Bérain; the opera ballet Le triomphe de l'amour and the rise of the professional dancer; social dancing.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY96-F425
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12591316
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f8c27db0-713b-0138-2143-23e68de6549d
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1653: Creator Born
  • 1729: Creator Died
  • 1995: Created
  • 2020: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Early dance" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1995. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a712edc5-0c1f-47d9-8a90-0f1f7a4a4b14

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Early dance" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a712edc5-0c1f-47d9-8a90-0f1f7a4a4b14

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1995). Early dance Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a712edc5-0c1f-47d9-8a90-0f1f7a4a4b14

Wikipedia Citation

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Early dance