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Sources

Recent readings that are informing our work presently:
  • William Hogarth: "Analysis of Beauty" (1753)
  • John Weaver: "Anatomical & Mechanical Lectures Upon Dancing" (1721)
  • John Weaver: "An Essay Towards An History of Dancing" (1712)
  • Descartes: "Passions of the Soul" (1649)
The sources we go back to again and again:
  • Pierre Rameau: "The Dancing Master" (1725)
  • Gennaro Magri: "Theoretical & Practical Treatise on Dancing" (1779)
  • Kellom Tomlinson: "The Art of Dancing" (1735)
  • Raoul-Anger Feuillet: "Choregraphie" (1701)
Extra Credit:
  • Gregorio Lambranzi: "The New & Curious School of Theatrical Dancing" (1716)
  • John Weaver: "The Loves of Mars and Venus" (1717)
  • Francis Nivelon: "The Rudiments of Genteel Behavior" (1737)
Thoroughly-researched and well-written modern books:
  • Rebecca Harris-Warrick & Bruce Alan Brown: "The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage"
  • Jennifer Neville: "Footprints of the Dance"
  • Wendy Hilton: "Dance and Music of Court and Theater"
Websites of interest:
  • Matt's Baroque Dance Pages
  • Paige Whitley-Bauguess
  • Edmund Fairfax
  • Moira Goff​
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