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2200 Art objects

1. New York (NY), Market, Malloy: CUP FRAGMENTS; EYE, WOMAN DANCING, AND SEATED FIGURE, EYE, WOMEN DANCING [Beazley Archive Vase] (10.24)

2. Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: NECK-AMPHORA; N,P, NIKOSTHENIC; FLORAL, HORSEMAN LEADING HORSE, WARRIORS, MEN (YOUTHS ?), HORSEMAN, WARRIOR, YOUTHS (MEN ?), KOMOS, YOUTHS AND WOMEN DANCING, YOUTH DANCING [Beazley Archive Vase] (9.41)

3. Athens, National Museum, 623: KANTHAROS; BERLIN 1727, PAINTER OF, BOEOTIAN DANCERS GROUP, KOMAST GROUP; ANIMAL FRIEZE, FLORAL, LOTUS PALMETTE, PANTHER, SPHINXES, LION, ANIMAL FRIEZE, LIONS ATTACKING BULL, SIREN, FLORAL, LOTUS PALMETTE, FLORAL BETWEEN SPHINXES, PANTHER, LION, ANIMAL FRIEZE, KOMOS, MEN DANCING, KOMOS, MEN, SOME DANCING, ONE PLAYING KITHARA [Beazley Archive Vase] (8.90)

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19 Atlas sites

1. Dancing Creek: Virginia, United States [Atlas site] (5.26)

2. Dancing Cave: Ohio, United States [Atlas site] (5.26)

3. Dancing Branch: North Carolina, United States [Atlas site] (4.98)

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157 Images

1. Dancing-dolls, -Italian. Dancing-dolls.-Hogarth's Southwark Fair. [Image] (6.73)

2. Picasso, Pablo; Parisian night life, Montemartre, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Henri de, Toulouse-Lautrec, dancing, bourgeois, decadence, glamour: Le Moulin de la Galette: A scene of a dance club. All wearing elegant clothing typical of the XVIII century. In middle, couples dancing, men wearing black, women white and other colors; top left gentlemen in tuxedos and top hats, bottom left, women sitting at a table, talking to each other, one wearing a red coat, one looking out and smiling; on table, white tablecloth, a carafe and glasses. To the right people standing, their faces blurred, a woman with sharp features and red lipstick. In the back, a row of lanterns or candles., Oil on canvas [Image] (5.17)

3. Louvre G 7l: Detail of side B, right: a nude youth running to the left, with his head turned profile to the right, and both hands held behind him; another nude youth dancing over a lekythos; another nude youth dancing to the right, over a stamnos; he wears a chlamys draped over both arms and holds noise makers in both upraised hands [Image] (3.74)

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7 Reference articles

1. Tight-rope Dancing [Reference article in Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)] (3.18)

2. Dancing [Reference article in Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)] (3.18)

3. Dancing maenad relief [Reference article in Perseus Sculpture Catalog] (2.40)

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7 Text sections

1. French Hurdy-Gurdy Player, With Dancing Children. [Section in Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: Volume 3] (2.85)

2. INDIAN DANCING AND THEFT. [Section in Fifty years in the Northwest] (2.69)

3. Sleigh Rides, Dancing Parties, Corn Husking and Logging Bees. [Section in Pioneer recollections; semi-historic side lights on the early days of Lansing] (2.55)

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704 Texts

1. Blasis, Carlo, 1803-1878., Barton, R., tr.; [The code of Terpsichore. The art of dancing, comprising its theory and practice, and a history of its rise and progress, from the earliest times ...: (in English) This is one of several books written by Italian dancer, choreographer, and writer Blasis (1795-1878). It covers the history and theory of dance, pantomime, the composition of ballets, and contains a section devoted to social dances entitled "private dancing." Although much of the discussion on technique is identical to Blasis'S earlier treatise, Traite elementaire theorique et pratique de l'art de la danse (1820), the manual is a comprehensive survey of ballet during the early nineteenth-century., L.C. copy imperfect: t.-p. wanting; title supplied from the Catalogue of the Bibliotheque nationale., On spine: Code of Terpsichore. By C. Blasis ... With seventeen plates; illustrating upwards of sixty positions. With original quadrilles and waltzes. Arranged for the piano-forte., Barton's English translation of Code complet de la danse, which was subsequently translated into French by Paul Vergnaud under title: Manuel complet de la danse., "Programmes, containing examples of every species of ballets. Composed by C. Blasis": p. 259-484. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (21.67)

2. Playford, Henry, b. 1651., Playford, john, 1623-1686?; The dancing master; or, Directions for dancing country dances, with the tunes to each dance, for the treble-violin. The 10th ed. corrected; with addition of several new dances and tunes never before printed.: (in English) Originally published in 1650 under the title of The English dancing master, this work went through numerous editions from 1652 to 1728. Compiled by John Playford (1623-1687), a publisher of music books, the treatise is considered an important work on English country dances, a form of dance where couples perform a series of set patterns. In this tenth edition, Henry Playford notes that he has made corrections and added several new dances and tunes. The work utilizes a rudimentary dance notation and page one of the treatise is devoted to an explanation of the symbols. Part one contains 215 dances; part two has 46 dances and additional music for "A new spanish entry and saraband," as danced by Monsieur L'Abbe. Appropriate music, in the form of a treble line, is provided for each dance. Most of the dances are designated for longways sets of three couples, four couples, or "as many as will.", Vol. 2, 2d ed., has imprint: Printed for H. Playford, 1698., First ed. published 1651 [i.e. 1650] under title: The English dancing-master. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (10.29)

3. Paisible, James, 1656?-1721., Isaac, Mr.; The Godolphin : Mr. Isaac's new dance made for Her Majestys birth day 1714 /: (in English) This ballroom dance for one couple, preserved in Feuillet notation, was choreographed by English dancing master Mr. Isaac (c.1640-c.1720) to music composed by James Paisible (died 1721). The five couplet dance is in duple meter and is dedicated to the Lady Harriot Godolphin, considered to be a "particular good dancer," by E. Pemberton, the notator of the dance. The dance notation system, first published by dancing master Raoul-Auger Feuillet (1659 or 1660-1710), is based on tract drawings that trace the patter of the dance. Additionally, bar lines in the dance score correspond to bar lines in the music score. Signs written on the right or left hand side of the tract indicate the steps. [Text] [View with Perseus links] (9.72)

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