Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles

Image 1 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles LETTERS ON DANCING, REDUCING This Elegant and Healthful Exercise TO EASY SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES. MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO THE MOST NOBLE THE MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 1871 CITY OF...

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Image 2 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles TO THE MOST NOBLE THE MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY. Madam , Permit me to offer to your Ladyship my most sincere thanks for the distinguished honor you have conferred on me, in allowing...

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Image 3 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles It is usual on the introduction of a Second Edition of a Work on any science or art, to present it to the Public with alterations and additions; very often rendering the...

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Image 4 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles “ Les Obstacles au Progrés de la Danse . “Ils n'ont point de loix écrites, de régles constantes, de principes “fixes. Ils se gouvernent sur des traditions qu'ils croyent “certaines. Ils suivent...

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Image 5 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles LETTERS ON DANCING CONTENTS. PAGE Address to the Profession i Preface: assigning the cause which gave the Author the first idea of attempting this work iii Letter I. On the Origin of...

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Image 6 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS. FANCY COSTUMES. PAGE Plate I. Grecian 7 —II.—(Zephyr) 10 —III.— 11 —IV.—(Flora) 12 —V.— 13 —VI.—(with a Garland) 14 —VII.Bayadère(with a Shawl) 15 —VIII.Indostan 16 —IX.Tyrolien 17 —X— 18...

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Image 7 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles ADDRESS TO THE PROFESSION. Allow me, my dear friends, to say a few words in explanation of my seceding from the long established rules in dancing; and I think, when you have...

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Image 8 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles ii It was my intention, on the publication of the following pages, to have made a few remarks respecting the most celebrated professors of dancing of the past and present ages, but,...

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Image 9 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles PREFACE. There are probably some persons in the world, who, on perusing this work, will examine every sentence, expression, and idea, for no other purpose than to find out its defects, without...

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Image 10 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles iv sooner than deviate from the beaten track, would rather remain unacquainted with any thing that is likely to remove the difficulties encumbent on their system. This puts me in mind of...

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Image 11 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles v several hints thrown out in the writings of some of the most celebrated authors: among others, Sir Richard Steele, who, in that admirable work, the Spectator, writes, as from a correspondent,...

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Image 12 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles vi to the improvement of its professors, and information of the spectators, that the former might be the better able to perform, and the latter rendered more capable of judging what is...

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Image 13 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles vii so mean and unpromising, that it is very wonderful to think that ever such surprising structures should have been raised upon such ordinary foundations. But what cannot a great genius effect?...

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Image 14 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles viii commonly called the third position; I have so, and for this reason—all that can be done in the third, may be performed with double effect and brilliancy in what is generally...

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Image 15 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles LETTER I. ON THE ORIGIN OF DANCING, WITH AN ABRIDGED HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF ITS PROGRESS, UP TO THE PRESENT TIME. My Dear Friend , I have long since promised to give you...

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Image 16 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 2 Nature, unassisted by art, was, at the time I speak of, the only instructor; but as mankind grew refined, it became an art. Dancing is made mention of as in use...

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Image 17 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 3 intelligence and her great knowledge of the arts, sciences, and politics, combined with astonishing personal accomplishments, that her house became the resort of men of the greatest celebrity. It is said...

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Image 18 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 4 At this time the minister Mazarin established several academies: among others, l'Academie de Danse; unfortunately, he did not survive long enough to see his desires accomplished. It was after his death...

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Image 19 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 5 myself to one, viz., that which you and I have practised, commonly called “La Danse Française,” which, when executed in a perfect manner, combines correctness, ease, grace, and brilliancy. A movement...

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Image 20 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles LETTER II. ON THE POSITIONS OR STATIONS. I have no doubt it will appear presumptuous in me to dissent from the long established rules, that there are exactly five positions of the...

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Image 22 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 7 The head should be erect, but not stiffly placed, the back of the neck being perfectly straight, the upper part of the chest raised, which will cause the back to be...

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Image 23 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 8 ground, which is commonly attributed to weakness, but is merely the effect of not putting the little toes to the ground: in fact, this position should be as nature intended us...

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Image 24 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 9 THE PLAN OF THE STATIONS, Shewing the just proportion of the Division or Space between them .

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Image 25 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 10 The First Ground Station Is when both feet are on the ground, one foot being crossed before the other, the heel of the front foot joining the great toe of the...

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Image 28 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 11 The Second Ground Station Is when the feet are separated, as in what is commonly called the second position, with both heels on the ground; the distance between the feet should...

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Image 29 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 12 The Third Ground Station Is when one foot is placed exactly between the second and fourth stations, with both heels on the ground. This station is used in taking pirouettes ,...

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Image 32 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 13 The Fourth Ground Station Is when the feet are placed in what is commonly called the fourth position, but with both heels on the ground; the distance between the feet ought...

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Image 33 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 14 The Fifth Ground Station Is when the feet are still more crossed than in the fourth station, and with the heels on the ground. See the Plan of the Stations and...

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Image 36 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 15 The First Half Aerial Station Is when the feet are as in the first ground station, but with both heels off the ground, the body resting on the balls of the...

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Image 37 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 16 The Second Half Aerial Station Is when the weight of the body is on one foot, the other heel rose up, the toe slightly resting on the ground and close against...

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Image 40 of Letters on dancing reducing this elegant and healthful exercise to easy scientific principles 17 The Third Half Aerial Station Is when the weight of the body is on one foot, or on the ball of the foot, and the other placed above the ancle. See...

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