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Women's Work : Making Dance in Europe Before 1800.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Dance History SeriesPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299225339
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women's WorkDDC classification:
  • 792.8094
LOC classification:
  • GV1799
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women in Dance History, the Doubly Invisible -- PATRONAGE AND POWER -- 1 Isabella and the Dancing Este Brides, 1473-1514 -- 2 Fabritio Caroso's Patronesses -- 3 At the Queen's Command: Henrietta Maria and the Development of the English Masque -- PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE -- 4 The Female Ballet Troupe of the Paris Opera from 1700 to 1725 -- 5 Françoise Prévost: The Unauthorized Biography -- 6 Marie Sallé, a Wise Professional Womanof Influence -- 7 In Pursuit of the Dancer-Actress -- WORLDVIEWS -- 8 Elisabeth of Spalbeek: Dancing the Passion -- 9 Galanterie and Gloire: Women's Will and the Eighteenth-Century Worldview in Les Indes galantes -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women in Dance History, the Doubly Invisible -- PATRONAGE AND POWER -- 1 Isabella and the Dancing Este Brides, 1473-1514 -- 2 Fabritio Caroso's Patronesses -- 3 At the Queen's Command: Henrietta Maria and the Development of the English Masque -- PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE -- 4 The Female Ballet Troupe of the Paris Opera from 1700 to 1725 -- 5 Françoise Prévost: The Unauthorized Biography -- 6 Marie Sallé, a Wise Professional Womanof Influence -- 7 In Pursuit of the Dancer-Actress -- WORLDVIEWS -- 8 Elisabeth of Spalbeek: Dancing the Passion -- 9 Galanterie and Gloire: Women's Will and the Eighteenth-Century Worldview in Les Indes galantes -- Contributors -- Index.

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