19th Century - Dance Flashcards
True or False. Male dancers took lead roles in ballet performances during the romantic era
False. Male dancers either took on supporting roles or arranged the ballets offstage as dance masters
What did the lead roles of ballets often portray?
Winged, unearthly beings such as nymphs and fairies
Essential feature of the ballerina’s art
Pointe ballet
Included instructions and directions of dances and manners needed in the ballroom and were developed by dance masters
Dance manuals
Forerunner of American Square dance that has many figures requiring group practices
Cotillion
Partners dance side by side behind a lead couple moving through various figures that was performed in triple time
Polonaise
Performed in a stately manner then later an accelerated one
Quadrille
Quadrille was introduced when, where, by whom, and to whom?
- Almack’s (London club). Introduced by Lady Sarah Jersey
Queen of London Society
Lady Sarah Jersey
Book on combining 50 movements in figures
Treatise on Quadrille Dancing
Who wrote “Treatise on Quadrille Dancing” and when was it written?
Thomas Wilson (a dancing master). 1818
Derivation of Waltz
From the German landler and other Southern German folk dances
Performed in triple time by single couples in close embrace and featured wild hopping, stamping and throwing of the female partner in the air
Waltz
Give 2 descriptions of Polka
- Popular social dance of the first part of the 19th century
- Half-step dance in 2/4 time and had 3 figures on stage
Timeline of Polka
1830’s- introduced in Prague ballrooms
1840- brought to Paris by dancing masters and reached the stage
1843- popular in Europe and US
1844- entered English ballrooms
