What is it about?
How French ideas influenced the English masque as a new dance theatre for England.
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Why is it important?
Based on research into the masque as a dance event and performance, this article debates the influence of a particular published French text on ideas and the staging of the court dance theatre. This is a completely new approach, but based on good understanding of the dance practice of the seventeenth century.
Perspectives
The article takes my doctoral research into the antimasque of the Stuart masque and develops it further to reveal interesting trends in English practice. The issues of staging political ideas in dance are aired for the first time.
Dr Anne Daye
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This page is a summary of: The Role of Le Balet Comique in Forging the Stuart Masque: Part 2 Continuation, Dance Research, May 2015, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/drs.2015.0123.
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