Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography - Kinetic Theatricality and Social Interaction

The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography is a study of the theory of kinetic theatricality in the western European context. The dancing body of courtly social dance is analyzed in French and Italian dance treatises of the Renaissance through the intertexts of oratorical action, pedagogical discourses of civility and conceptions of value emanating from descriptions of social interaction in courtesy books.

List of contents

Preface to the Revised Edition; 1. Introduction; 2. The Mythological Intertext: Language; 3. The Sociological Intertext: Courtesy; 4. The Pedagogical Intertext: Precepts; 5. The Political Intertext: Civil Conversatione (Social Intercourse); Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Mark Franko is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance at the Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University, USA. He is founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Franko, Franko Mark
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781785278013
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-801-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Anthem Studies in Theatre and; Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism, Ballet, Literary theory, Classical style, performing arts; literary criticism