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Gautier on Dance, selected, edited, and translated by Ivor Guest. London: Dance Books, 1986. Distributed by Princeton Book Co., Princeton, New Jersey, xxvi + 358 pp., illustrations. $85.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

Dale Harris
Affiliation:
Sarah Lawrence College

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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1989

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Notes

1. Priddin, Deirdre, The Art of the Dance in French Literature From Théophile Gautier to Paul Valéry (London: A. & C. Black, 1952), p. 49.Google Scholar

2. In The Romantic Ballet in Paris, by Guest, Ivor (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966)Google Scholar, the author begins his account of the movement in 1820, sixteen years after Gautier's first dance article, a reportorial piece called “Marie Taglioni at the Palace of Compiègne.“

3. Ebers, John, Seven Years of the King's Theatre (London: William Harrison Ainsworth, 1828), p. 70.Google Scholar

4. Ibid., p. 226.

5. Chorley, Henry F., Thirty Years' Musical Recollections. 2 vols. (New York: Da Capo, 1984), II, p. 64.Google Scholar

6. Denby, Edwin, Dance Writings, ed. Cornfield, Robert and MacKay, William (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986), pp. 528–29.Google Scholar

7. Beaumont, Cyril W., trans, and ed., The Romantic Ballet as Seen by Théophile Gautier: Being His Notices of All the Principal Performances of Ballet Given at Paris During the Years 1837–1848 (London: C.W. Beaumont, 1947).Google Scholar