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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Traitté contre les danses. Par Jean Boiseul.

Boiseul, Jean.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
A La Rochelle, Les heritiers de Hierosme Havltin, 1606.

SUMMARY
An early example of an antidance treatise, this manual provides a foundation for arguments that continued to the end of the nineteenth century--that dancing is a sin against God. Much of Boiseul's argument is based on biblical examples (chapters and verses are noted in the margins of each page). While acknowledging that dance is mentioned in the Bible, the author is quick to point out that the dances were "joyous and spontaneous" and very different from the seventeenth-century social dances of his day. The courante, branle, and galliard come under specific attack. Additionally, Boiseul makes particularly strong arguments against the dances of non-Christian "savages."

NOTES
Printer's mark on t.-p.

SUBJECTS
Dance--Religious aspects--Early works to 1800.
Antidance Literature.
France--La Rochelle.

MEDIUM
50 p. 16 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1740 .B7

DIGITAL ID
musdi 023 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.023

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