Baroque Dance Notation: Deciphering Feuillet - Beachamp Notation of the Anthony L'Abbe's minuet скачать в хорошем качестве

Baroque Dance Notation: Deciphering Feuillet - Beachamp Notation of the Anthony L'Abbe's minuet

"Baroque Dance Notation: Deciphering Feuillet - Beachamp Notation of the Anthony L'Abbe's minuet performed by Mrs Santlow” Wednesday June 3rd 7pm Speaker: Dr Alena Schmakova Host: Lottie Adcock Description We are living in the time when dance can be easily captured and recreated using video recordings. For centuries however dancers and dance-masters tried to capture the essence of movement on paper using signs, letters, words and images. At the end of the 17th century Lois XIV gave a task to the best of his dance instructors to invent a system describing the French dance style to the rest of the world to expand the cultural influence of his court. It took about 40 years to develop. Eventually, Chorégraphie, ou l'art de décrire la danse (Paris, 1700) by R. -A. Feuillet describing the art of writing down a choreography was as popular as the Bible among those practicing the art of dance and wishing to improve their style. The system was proven useful again in the middle of the 20th century with the surge of interest in recreating the dance from the past. In this lecture we will cover where to start, how to read Feuillet - Beauchamp notations and what information you could get using as an example the Anthony L'Abbe's minuet performed by famous British dancer Hester Santlow (Booth) c. 1720. Alena Schmakova Alena was born in Russia in the south-east region of the Great Steppe (Barnaul, Altay Region). She discovered the world of historical dance in 2006 while studying in Novosibirsk State University by joining the historical and folk dance group “Medieval”. Since then she regularly attended workshops and summer schools run by Russian and international historical dance specialists including Olga Fialko, Ekaterina Mikhaylova-Smolnyakova, Barbara Segal, Ricky Barros, Karin Modigh, Hubert Hazebroucq, Richard Powers, Fabio Mollica and others. In 2013 she founded a historical dance group Les Danses Antiques with whom she shared her knowledge and passion for historical dance with Scottish audience. Alena moved to Scotland in 2009 and pursued a scientific career obtaining MSc in 2011 from the University of Edinburgh followed by a PhD (2012-2016, Wellcome Trust program in Life Sciences) from the University of Dundee, and several subsequent post-doctoral research projects carried out at the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh. All the videos are available for educational purposes. The content must not be used by you for commercial purposes.