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Early dance.

Title: Early dance. [Part 2], the Baroque era [electronic resource] / directed by Hal [Harold] Bergsohn ; written and produced by Isa Partsch-Bergsohn.
Publication: Pennington, NJ : Dance Horizons Video, distributed by Princeton Book Company, Publishers, c1995.

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Description

1 streaming video file (31 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

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.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Marilyn Dean Schwalm, additional copy.

Series Statement

Early dance ; part 2.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Educational/cultural films and programs.
Video.

Note

Part number from wrapper.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Performer (note)

Narrators, Pierre Herbineaux, Mary Maher, Carrie Patterson, and John M. Wilson.

System Details (note)

Streaming video.

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.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-7264

OCLC

35729055
NYPY96-F425

Title

Early dance. [Part 2], the Baroque era [electronic resource] / directed by Hal [Harold] Bergsohn ; written and produced by Isa Partsch-Bergsohn.

Imprint

Pennington, NJ : Dance Horizons Video, distributed by Princeton Book Company, Publishers, c1995.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Early dance ; part 2.

System Details

Streaming video.

Performer

Narrators, Pierre Herbineaux, Mary Maher, Carrie Patterson, and John M. Wilson.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIA 4-2196.

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Local Subject

Opera ballet. Persée.

Baroque dancing.

Horse ballets.

Added Author

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. Author

Bergsohn, Harold. Director

Dance Horizons (Firm). Video

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-7264

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