Baroque Dance Costumes

Choreography is the highly creative process of interpreting and coordinating movement, music and space in performance. By tracing different facets of development and exploring the essential artistic and practical skills of the choreographer, this book offers unique insights for apprentice dance makers. With key concepts and ideas expressed through an accessible writing style, the creative tasks and frameworks offered will develop new curiosity, understanding, skill and confidence. The chapters ... [Read More]

Fashion ruled the courts of the "Sun King," Louis XIV (1638–1715), and his successor, Louis XV (1710–1774). The Sun King's quest for glory and love of conspicuous adornment manifested itself in his apparel, and he required the courtiers of Versailles to adopt similarly grand Baroque styles. A lighter fashion sense prevailed at the court of Louis XV, who favored Rococo styles of exquisite refinement.This magnificently rendered, scrupulously researched coloring book covers 135 years of French ... [Read More]

This volume deals with an extraordinary and varied century for costumes and fashions. Miss Brooke's drawings present an extremely good idea of the way in which Jacobean clothing, replaced Elizabethan stiffness, gradually evolving into a formality of its own. Primary sources are used to show the relation of the garments and point us to direct pattern references. There are specific illustrations for hair, shoes and hats as well as the various layers of men's and women's clothing, each divided by d... [Read More]

Ms. Whitley-Bauguess is joined by Baroque Dancer Thomas Baird and Musicians of the Baroque Arts Project on period instruments for this enchanting and informative presentation. Includes demonstrations of step sequences from Raoul-Auger Feuillet's 1700 publication "Chorégraphie" and step sequences from specific choreographies preserved in 18th-century notation, descriptions of the dances found in music and dance writings from the period, discussions and examples showing music and dance rhythm re... [Read More]

Reign the stage in the Alexandra Collection Womens Baroque Mesh Raglan Dance Costume Leotard. This mock neck leotard features a Baroque-inspired dye-sublimated design and raglan mesh sleeves. Front lined, center back zipper. Polyester, Spandex. Made in the USA.

George Frideric Handels opera Admeto was composed for the Royal Academy of Music. The work, with Italian libretto by Nicola Hyam, premiered in 1727. The work is partly based on Euripides Alcestis. For this production, Oscar nominated film director Doris Dorrie creates vivid scenery and brilliant sets to immerse the viewer in the ritualized world of the samurai. Handel would have enjoyed this enchanting shadow theater. (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) Its brilliantly played by the period-instrume... [Read More]

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