DANC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Vestas, Marie-Anne De Cupis De Camargo, Proscenium
3 Jan 2017
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1671: lully takes over academy of music: he built a proscenium theater. Different perspective, no longer around or above. Created a kind of physical barrier between audience and performers. After the opening of the paris ballet began to rapidly grow. The schools purpose was to ensure there were always dancers available. Opera ballet singing and dancing at the same time. Early starters of opera ballet: men. Francoise and prevost two students that were outstanding dancers: marie camargo: an outstanding personality, beauty of the outward form, shortened her skirt, showed ankles, marie salle: expression of inward feeling dressing for the part. The church and respectable society treated dancers with a double standard: dancers could not receive any of the sacraments (including marriage), but were often hired for the clergy to perform for them. Ballet reforms: the most significant new form of ballet in the 18th century was the. Dramatically cohesive: john wea(cid:448)er (cid:862)the lo(cid:448)es of mars and venus(cid:863)
