Video Clips of
\n Wendy Hilton
\n Dancer, Teacher, Scholar
\n author of Dance of Court & Theater:
\n The French Noble Style 1690-1725<\/p>\n
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These clips are taken from a grainy, scratchy B&W
\n television production from the early 1970s:
\n French Dance of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
\n It is still the best record of Hilton’s graceful dancing and has been
\n excerpted and organized here for educational purposes.<\/p>\n
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Demonstrating individual steps or actions<\/strong> <\/p>\n Demonstrating a particular step unit<\/strong> <\/p>\n Demonstrating characteristic step patterns<\/strong> <\/p>\n Demonstrating choreographed dances<\/strong> Video Clips of <\/p>\n These clips are taken from a grainy, scratchy B&W <\/p>\n Demonstrating individual steps or actions<\/strong> <\/p>\n
\n R\u00e9verence (bow) for a woman<\/a>
\n pas de Bourr\u00e9e<\/a>
\n Assembl\u00e9<\/a>
\n Arm motions to accompany the steps<\/a><\/p>\n
\n pas de Rigaudon<\/a>
\n pas de Galliard<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Walking steps in duple time<\/a>
\n Walking steps in triple time<\/a>
\n Springing steps<\/a>
\n Mixed steps in duple time<\/a>
\n Mixed steps in triple time<\/a>
\n Steps with Beats (pas battus)<\/a>
\n Minuet steps<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Gigue pour Mlle. Subligny<\/a>
\n Canaries (Gigue)<\/a>
\n L’Allemande<\/a> (N.B. this is the only choreographed Allemande from the era, but its music is unlike most written Allemandes: it’s more like a Bourr\u00e9e or Rigaudon. It’s also a couple dance and Hilton dances only the woman’s part)
\n Sarabande pour femme<\/a>
\n Sarabande pour femme (performed without costume)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\n Wendy Hilton
\n Dancer, Teacher, Scholar
\n author of Dance of Court & Theater:
\n The French Noble Style 1690-1725<\/p>\n
\n television production from the early 1970s:
\n French Dance of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
\n It is still the best record of Hilton’s graceful dancing and has been
\n excerpted and organized here for educational purposes.<\/p>\n
\n R\u00e9verence (bow) for a woman<\/a>
\n pas de Bourr\u00e9e<\/a>
\n Assembl\u00e9<\/a>
\n Arm motions to accompany the steps<\/a><\/p>\n