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Baroque - Dance & Theatre

A costume design for Louis XIV as The Rising Sun, from the final entrée of Le Ballet de la Nuit

(1653).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ballet_de_la_nuit_1653.jpg

Baroque Dance - Ballet

Louis XIII participates as a dancer, composer, and director

Louis XIV Excellent & enthusiastic dancer from age 13 (1615) through 1670

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Conventions:Under Louis XIII…• Elaborate spectacles of

biblical tales & mythology brought to court for entertainment (also Henry IV in England)

• Louis XIII participates (dancer, composer, director)

• Performances in front of City Hall (Paris) so townspeople can see it.

• Dance done by amateurs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_XIII_(de_Champaigne).jpg

Baroque Dance - BalletUnder Louis XIV…

• The arts are used as propaganda – to establish Louis as the absolute ruler of France - to create & perpetuate an image of the French monarchy- to show Louis as the majestically royal incarnation of France… he physically represents all of France, as all of France is his - to demonstrate France’s superiority to the rest of the world

• Moliere – his choreographer (later, a playwright)

• Ballet becomes professional

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg

Jean Baptiste Lully(Italian born: Giovanni Baptista Lulli)

– composer & musician who worked with Louis XIV

- collaborated with Moliere on most of the Louis’ ballets

- 1669 Louis XIV established the Académie Royale de Musique for Lully

- 1653, Le Ballet de la Nuit – at 14 Louis performs dressed as Apollo, the sun god (composed by Lully), which contributed to his being known as the Sun King http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMvpvDjFvHA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMvpvDjFvHA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMvpvDjFvHA&feature=related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Baptiste_Lully.jpeg

Pierre Beauchamps

– Louis XIV took lessons from him most of his life

-1661 – he records (and so standardizes) the 5 foot & arm positions for ballet… the basis of modern ballet

-1661 -Académie Royale de Danse is founded by Louis XIV and Beauchamps is the 1st director (oldest existing ballet company, no called the Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris


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Baroque Dance - BalletPositions of the feet

1st position 2nd position

4th position 5th position3rd position

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Premi%C3%A8re_pointes.PNG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seconde_pointes.PNG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quatri%C3%A8me_demipointes.PNG


Pas des deux & Arabesque position

Leaping men demonstrate their strength

The tutu

Baroque Theatre

Theatre Conventions

JACQUES CALLOT, The Combat at the Barrier, 1627

• Performances move inside & become more lavish spectacles

• Court theatre is dominated by Masques• Women are generally accepted on stage by the late

17th C

Stages & theatres

are decorated in same ornate style

Baroque Theatre - Opera

Teatro alla

Scala

Milan, Italy

Founded 1778

Libretto + score = Opera (“work” in italian)

Baroque Theatre - Opera

Opera starts in the courts… the first publically attended opera was in Venice in 1637

Claudio Monteverdi (Italy) Georges Frederic Handel (Germany)

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