 La Stenochoregraphie.
Author: Saint-Leon, Arthur Published: 2006 Arthur Saint-Léon, creator of the famous ballet Coppélia was the dominant figure in European ballet in the 1860s, and one of the most versatile artists of the 19th century - dancer, choreographer, composer, violinist, and theorist. In La Sténochorégraphie, published in Paris in 1852, he proposed an innovative system for analysing and notating movement. This facsimile reproduction of the 1852 edition (text in French only) is preceded by a detailed introduction by the Italian scholar Flavia Pappacena (in both English and Italian) in which she examines Saint-Léon's system and reconstructs the 23 famous exercises of Adagio, Allegro, and pointe in which he handed down the late 18th-century academic tradition to a new generation. |
