Pierre Beauchamp, the Glossary
Pierre Beauchamp or Beauchamps (30 October 1631 – February 1705) was a French choreographer, dancer and composer, and the probable inventor of Beauchamp–Feuillet notation.[1]
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29 relations: Académie Royale de Danse, Alceste (Lully), An American Ballroom Companion, Atys (Lully), Ballroom, Baroque dance, Beauchamp–Feuillet notation, Choreography, Classical ballet, Composer, Dance, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Louis XIV, Molière, Palace of Versailles, Paris, Paris Opera, Pierre Rameau, Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps, Pomone (opera), Positions of the feet in ballet, Psyché (play), Raoul Auger Feuillet, Sarabande, The Imaginary Invalid, Turn (dance and gymnastics), Versailles, Yvelines, Yvelines.
- 17th-century ballet dancers
- Dance notators
- Paris Opera Ballet artistic directors
Académie Royale de Danse
The Académie Royale de Danse, founded by Letters Patent on the initiative of King Louis XIV of France in March 1661, was the first dance institution established in the Western world.
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Alceste (Lully)
Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully.
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An American Ballroom Companion
An American Ballroom Companion is an online collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress related to the period of cca.
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Atys (Lully)
Atys (Attis) is a tragédie en musique, an early form of French opera, in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a libretto by Philippe Quinault after Ovid's Fasti.
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Ballroom
A ballroom or ballhall is a large room inside a building, the primary purpose of which is holding large formal parties called balls.
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Baroque dance
Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era (roughly 1600–1750), closely linked with Baroque music, theatre, and opera.
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Beauchamp–Feuillet notation
Beauchamp–Feuillet notation is a system of dance notation used in Baroque dance.
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Choreography
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified.
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Classical ballet
Classical ballet is any of the traditional, formal styles of ballet that exclusively employ classical ballet technique.
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Composer
A composer is a person who writes music.
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Dance
Dance is an art form, often classified as a sport, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected.
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully (– 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Pierre Beauchamp and Jean-Baptiste Lully are French Baroque composers and French male classical composers.
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (translated as The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Middle-Class Aristocrat, or The Would-Be Noble) is a five-act comédie-ballet – a play intermingled with music, dance and singing – written by Molière, first presented on 14 October 1670 before the court of Louis XIV at the Château of Chambord by Molière's troupe of actors.
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Louis XIV
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
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Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.
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Palace of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles (château de Versailles) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
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Paris Opera
The Paris Opera is the primary opera and ballet company of France.
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Pierre Rameau
Pierre Rameau (1674 – 26 January 1748), was the French dancing master to Elisabetta Farnese, and the author of two books that now provide us with valuable information about Baroque dance. Pierre Beauchamp and Pierre Rameau are French choreographers.
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Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps
Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps, born in 1689 in Paris, where he died on March 12, 1761, was a playwright, theater historian, libertine novelist and French translator.
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Pomone (opera)
Pomone (Pomona) is a pastoral opera in a prologue and five acts by Robert Cambert with a libretto by Pierre Perrin.
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Positions of the feet in ballet
The positions of the feet in ballet is a fundamental part of classical ballet technique that defines standard placements of feet on the floor.
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Psyché (play)
Psyché is a five-act tragédie-ballet, originally written as a prose text by Molière and versified in collaboration with Pierre Corneille and Philippe Quinault, with music composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1671 and by Marc-Antoine Charpentier in 1684 (music lost).
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Raoul Auger Feuillet
Raoul Auger (or Anger) Feuillet (c.1660–1710) was a French dance notator, publisher and choreographer most well-known today for his Chorégraphie, ou l'art de décrire la danse (Paris, 1700) which described Beauchamp–Feuillet notation, and his subsequent collections of ballroom and theatrical dances, which included his own choreographies as well as those of Pécour. Pierre Beauchamp and Raoul Auger Feuillet are dance notators and French choreographers.
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Sarabande
The sarabande (from zarabanda) is a dance in triple metre, or the music written for such a dance.
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The Imaginary Invalid
The Imaginary Invalid, The Hypochondriac, or The Would-Be Invalid (French title Le Malade imaginaire) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière with dance sequences and musical interludes (H.495, H.495 a, H.495 b) by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
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Turn (dance and gymnastics)
In dance and gymnastics, a turn is a rotation of the body about the vertical axis.
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Versailles, Yvelines
Versailles is a commune in the department of the Yvelines, Île-de-France, renowned worldwide for the Château de Versailles and the gardens of Versailles, designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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Yvelines
Yvelines is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France.
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See also
17th-century ballet dancers
- Antoine de Beaulieu
- Cesare Negri
- Claude Balon
- De Lafontaine
- Louis-Guillaume Pécour
- Marie-Thérèse de Subligny
- Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla
- Pierre Beauchamp
- Susanna van Lee
Dance notators
- Ann Hutchinson Guest
- Eduard Greyling
- Hanya Holm
- Linda Crist
- Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin
- Pierre Beauchamp
- Raoul Auger Feuillet
- Richard Holden (dancer)
- Rudolf Benesh
- Rudolf von Laban
- Skippy Blair
- Thoinot Arbeau
- Valerie Preston-Dunlop
- Valerie Sutton
- Vladimir Stepanov (dancer)
Paris Opera Ballet artistic directors
- Arthur Saint-Léon
- Benjamin Millepied
- Brigitte Lefèvre
- Gaétan Vestris
- George Skibine
- Henri Justamant
- Jean Coralli
- Jean Dauberval
- John Taras
- Joseph Hansen (dancer)
- Joseph Mazilier
- Léo Staats
- Louis Mérante
- Louis-Guillaume Pécour
- Lucien Petipa
- Maximilien Gardel
- Michel Blondy
- Michel Descombey
- Pierre Beauchamp
- Pierre Gardel
- Roland Petit
- Rosella Hightower
- Rudolf Nureyev
- Serge Lifar
- Violette Verdy
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Beauchamp
Also known as Charles-Louis Beauchamp, Charles-Louis Beauchamps, Pierre Beauchamps.