Women's Work Making Dance in Europe Before 1800

Name: Women's Work Making Dance in Europe Before 1800
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ISBN: 9780299225346

ISBN-10: 0299225348

ISBN-13: 9780299225346

Edition: 2007

Authors: Lynn Brooks

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Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together these two areas of study, the nine internationally renowned scholars in this volume shed new and surprising light on women's roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of aesthetic trends, and patrons of dance in Italy, France, England, and Germany before 1800. Through dance, women asserted power in spheres largely dominated by men: the court, the theater, and the church. As women's dance worlds intersected with men's, their lives and visions were supported or opposed, creating a complex politics of creative, spiritual, and political expression. From a women's…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 11/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

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Acknowledgments


Introduction: Women in Dance History, the Doubly Invisible


Patronage and Power


Isabella and the Dancing Este Brides, 1473-1514


Fabritio Garoso's Patronesses


At the Queen's Command: Henrietta Maria and the Development of the English Masque


Professional Performance


The Female Ballet Troupe of the Paris Opera from 1700 to 1725


Francoise Prevost: The Unauthorized Biography


Marie Salle, a Wise Professional Woman of Influence


In Pursuit of the Dancer-Actress


Worldviews


Elisabeth of Spalbeek: Dancing the Passion


Galanterie and Gloire: Women's Will and the Eighteenth-Century Worldview in Les Indes galantes


Contributors


Index