Footprints of the Dance

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An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master’s Notebook

Jennifer Nevile

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English

Brill
16 August 2018

Dance; Choreography; Music

Series: Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe

Footprints of the Dance — An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master’s Notebook by Jennifer Nevile provides new, fascinating and detailed information on the life of an early-seventeenth-century dance master in Brussels. The dance master’s handwritten notebook contains unique material: a canon of dance figures and instructions for an exhibition with a pike; as well as signatures and general descriptions of his students, ballet plots and music associated with dancing. Reproduced for the first time are facsimile images of all the dance-related material, with transcriptions and translations of the ballet plots and instructions for the pike exhibition. The dance master is revealed as an active choreographer and performer, with strong ties to the French court musical establishment, and interested in fireworks and alchemy.

By: Jennifer Nevile
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 8
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 608g
ISBN: 9789004361799
ISBN 10: 9004361790
Series: Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 16 August 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jennifer Nevile, Ph.D. (1992), UNSW, holds an honorary research position at that university. She is a leading authority on Renaissance dance and its relationship with contemporary artistic and intellectual practices, publishing over thirty book chapters and articles, and a monograph.

Reviews for Footprints of the Dance: An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master’s Notebook

In her newest book, musicologist and dance historian Jennifer Neville has made a substantial contribution to our knowledge of early seventeenth-century dance and its social and political importance in the towns and cities of Western Europe. [...] Neville's opening his notebook to us is a gift to dance research. Judith Rock, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 (March 2019), pp. 183-186. Footprints of the Dance is a valuable addition to dance studies, extending our understanding of the professional life of a dancing master, the choreographic activities of the time and the interaction of dance with other cultural elements such as pyrotechnics, health and travel. The analysis and contextualisation draw on extensive understanding of early modern dance and the culture of Brussels. Through it, readers will derive an excellent understanding of this special manuscript. Anne Daye, in: Historical Dance, Vol. 4 ,No. 4 (January 2021).