Thoinot Arbeau's Orchesographie
Choreographer and dance historian Darren Royston joins Lucie Skeaping to explore the 16th-century dancing manual, "Orchesographie", published in 1589 in Langres by a French cleric who went under the pseudonym of Thoinot Arbeau. The manual is in the form of a dialogue between Arbeau himself and a fictional pupil by the name of Capriol, and the dances and music therein became familiar all across Europe.
It would be interesting to know how the word 'Orchésographie' was arrived at by le prêtre Arbeau. (Wonderful mental picture of ordained monsieur skipping about, cassock held high off he ground.)
Choreographer and dance historian Darren Royston joins Lucie Skeaping to explore the 16th-century dancing manual, "Orchesographie", published in 1589 in Langres by a French cleric who went under the pseudonym of Thoinot Arbeau. The manual is in the form of a dialogue between Arbeau himself and a fictional pupil by the name of Capriol, and the dances and music therein became familiar all across Europe.
It would be interesting to know how the word 'Orchésographie' was arrived at by le prêtre Arbeau. (Wonderful mental picture of ordained monsieur skipping about, cassock held high off he ground.)
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