TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brooks,Lynn Matluck
TI  - Women's work: making dance in Europe before 1800 
T2  - Studies in dance history
SN  - 0299225305
AV  - GV1799.4 .W65 2007
U1  - 792.8094 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Madison, Wis.
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - Women dancers
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Dance
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The doubly invisible: Dance in history, women in dance history / Lynn Matluck Brooks -- Isabella and the dancing Este brides, 1473-1514 / Barbara Sparti -- Fabritio Caroso's patronesses / Angene Feves -- At the Queen's command : Henrietta Maria and the development of the English masque / Anne Daye -- The female ballet troupe of the Paris Opera from 1700 to 1725 / Nathalie Lecomte -- Françoise Prévost : the unauthorized biography / Régine Astier -- The shaping of Galatea : who controlled the career of Marie Sallé? / Sarah McCleave -- In pursuit of the dancer-actress / Moira Goff -- Elisabeth of Spalbeek : dancing the passion / Karen Silen -- Galanterie and gloire : women's will and the eighteenth-century worldview in Les Indes galantes / Joellen A. Meglin
N2  - "Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together these two areas of study, the nine internationally renowned scholars in this volume shed new and surprising light on women's roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of aesthetic trends, and patrons of dance in Italy, France, England, and Germany before 1800. Through dance, women asserted power in spheres largely dominated by men: the court, the theater, and the church. As women's dance worlds intersected with men's, their lives and visions were supported or opposed, creating a complex politics of creative, spiritual, and political expression. From a women's religious order in the thirteenth-century Low Countries that used dance as a spiritual rite of passage to the salon culture of eighteenth-century France where dance became an integral part of women's cultural influence, the writers in this volume explore the meaning of these women's stories, performances, and dancing bodies, demonstrating that dance is truly a field across which women have moved with finesse and power for many centuries past."--Publisher description
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2007011730-b.html
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