The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography (eBook)

Kinetic Theatricality and Social Interaction

Mark Franko (Autor)

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2022
160 Seiten
Anthem Press (Verlag)
9781785278037 (ISBN)

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The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography is a study of the theory of kinetic theatricality in the western European context. The dancing body of courtly social dance is analyzed in French and Italian dance treatises of the Renaissance through the intertexts of oratorical action, pedagogical discourses of civility and conceptions of value emanating from descriptions of social interaction in courtesy books.

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The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography problematizes the absence of the dancing body in treatises in order to reconstruct it through a series of intertextual readings triggered by Thoinot Arbeau's definition of dance in his 1589 dance treatise, Orchesographie. The notion of the intertext as elaborated by Michael Riffaterre is used to understand a series of relationships between dance and other activities within which the historical dancing body emerges to the light of day. Arbeau's discussion of dance as a mute rhetoric in the demonstrative genre points to the intertext of Quintilian's The Oratorical Institution where the genus demonstrativum is explained as epideixis, the goal of which is to inspire confidence and charm the audience. The second intertext explored is that of civility as found in courtesy books where the posture of the body and the parameters of movement are outlined, converging in the gesture of the reverence. The categories of pose and movement are then read into the structure of the basse danse, the quintessential courtly social dance of the period. The relation of pose to movement or of stillness to mobility is further theorized through the terms of earlier Italian treatises, specifically in terms of fantasmata as used by Domenico da Piacenza.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance
• Reihe/Serie: Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Gewicht: 454 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-13: 9781785278037 / 9781785278037