The Art that all Arts do Approve : : Manifestations of the Dance Impulse in High Renaissance Culture: Studies in Honour of Margaret M McGowan: Dance Research Volume 25 Issue 2 / / Richard Ralph.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Ralph, Richard,
• MitwirkendeR: Anglo, Sydney,; Canova-Green, Marie-Claude,; Crisp, Clement,; De La Gorce, Jérôme,; Franko, Mark,; Mulryne, J. R.,; Nevile, Jennifer,; Ravelhofer, Barbara,; Shewring, Margaret,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Dance Research Special Issues : DRSI
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (128 p.)

Margaret McGowan is the doyenne of British dance historians; in celebration of her long and distinguished career and to coincide with its Silver Anniversary, the scholarly journal Dance Research has invited a number of distinguished dance historians and colleagues working in arts cognate with dance to contribute essays in her honour. The connecting theme is dance as an over-arching and stimulating agent, contributing to cultural and intellectual life during the early modern period in ways that were broader and more profound in their influence than is often recognised. These essays reveal an art that in the early stages of its development invariably resonated with 'context', and was widely exploited for social and political purposes. Contributions explore the nature of dance forms and, in explaining their evolution, highlight the discovery of significant links between rhetoric, discourses on art and architecture, and the language used by dancing masters. In paying tribute to a major pioneer in the discipline of dance studies, this study presents a compelling argument for the universality of dance, for its character as central to human experience, and for its power to stimulate endeavour across an unexpectedly broad front of experience and expression.

Table of Contents

Contents -- Editorial Introduction. Margaret M. McGowan: Pioneer of Academic Dance Research -- The Barriers: From Combat to Dance (Almost) -- ‘Rules for Design’: Beauty and Grace in Caroso’s Choreographies -- Fragment of the Sovereign as Hermaphrodite: Time, History, and the Exception in Le Ballet de Madame -- Dancing Towards Death: Masques and Entertainments in London and Florence as precedents for Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women -- Burlesque Ballet, a Ballad and a Banquet in Ben Jonson’s The Gypsies Metamorphos’d (1621) -- From Tragicomedy to Epic: The Court Ballets of Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin -- Jean II Berain’s Costume Designs for the Ballet Les Plaisirs de la Paix (1715) -- Into the Labyrinth: Kenneth MacMillan and his Ballets -- The Publications of Margaret M. McGowan