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​