in one or other of the arts which go to the making of ballet, that
ballet itself has not always attained its highest possible level in
England.
But without that basic technical efficiency in the living material
which he manipulates, how can the creator of the ballet express
himself? A standard of technique at least should exist. That given,
what might not yet be done with this art, which history shows
has always been so plastic in the hands of the master-artist, so
responsive to the artistic or national moods of the people among whom
it has been found.
It has the value and significance of painting, together with the
vital and impressive effect of drama. It is not the art of depicting
reality; but the art of pictorial suggestion, giving life and form to
poetic ideas.
At the Royal or Ducal Courts of earlier days the compliment to
monarch or to minister would be conveyed by means of a courtly
ballet, the story of which dealt outwardly perhaps only with the
doings of some mythic hero of the classic past. But the art of Ballet
always had greater possibilities than courtly compliment, in that it
is always a plastic vehicle for the expression of all ideas; and,
given the standard of efficiency which makes production possible
at all, it only becomes a question of what theme shall be treated
by this means rather than by the arts of painting, or of music, or
drama, or of literature.
On these two points--the standard of technical efficiency attained
by those associated in the production of ballet, and on the choice
of theme and manner of treatment by the artist-mind ultimately
responsible for the production, depends the whole future of the art
of Ballet. The spirit of the artist and his means of expression;
there lies the future.
What shall be the technique of ballet, and to what extent shall it be
influenced by that of the dance?
To-day, the forms of dancing are various, but there are three main
divisions: first, all popular forms of “step,” or, to adopt an old
and useful term, “toe-and-heel” dancing; secondly, the traditional
“toe”-dancing of classic ballet, capable of every _nuance_ of
expression; and thirdly, the various forms of rhythmic movement
and effects of poise, which seem to approach nearly to the ancient
Hellenic ideal of the Dance, and of which Miss Isadora Duncan was
perhaps the first exponent in England, as Mrs. Roger Watts is the
latest; while yet another phase of the same ideal is seen in the
Eurhythmic system of Jacques Dalcroze, which has had, and will have,
great influence in many directions.
We have seen on the London stage ballets in which the dancing was
almost wholly “step”-dancing, toe-and-heel--such as “On the Heath,”
at the Alhambra; we have seen numberless ballets in which the
traditional “toe”-dancing was paramount, from “Coppélia” to “Roberto
il Diavolo,” or the later productions of the Russians; we have not
yet seen a ballet composed entirely, or even mainly on the lines of
the Hellenic revival, though we have had hints of it in concerted
dances by pupils of Miss Duncan and others, and the complete thing
may yet come, though, personally, I question the advisability. We
have already had some curious, interesting, and not quite illogical
attempts to suggest scenic effect by means of living people
performing appropriate and rhythmic movements, as in the production
of Mr. Reginald Buckley’s poetic drama “King Arthur.”
In one or other of these three divisions of the dance and the
respective technical advance in each, lie the chief means of artistic
expression for the master of ballet in the future, and it may be that
the traditional “ballet”-dancing, with its marvellous flexibility
of expression, will, so long as the present standard of technique
is sustained, always maintain its supremacy over the purely popular
forms of dancing, and the newer modes of rhythmic movement and
gesture. It has at least stood the test of time, as a definite and
logical medium of artistic expression.
As to the master-mind that is to select one or other of these forms
of the Dance, and combine it with miming, music and scenic effect to
achieve a ballet that shall be the medium of ideas, worthy to range
as a work of art alongside the tried masterpieces of painting, music,
drama or literature, it may be questioned if we shall see anything
worthier than the past has given us at its best. Some new Noverre or
Blasis, Wilhelm or Fokine may yet arise, of course; but until such
a one come forth we may be well content with the standard which the
Past has managed to achieve.
To that standard this volume is a willing tribute; a faithful
record, which may have novelty for some, unaware of days before
their time; while for others, whose memory of more recent--but yet
receding!--events, grows dim, it may come as a friendly reminder of
pleasant hours spent, by writer and by reader, in contemplating from
the auditorium the varied examples seen at London theatres of the
protean Art of Ballet.
THE END
INDEX
Adam, Adolphe, composer, 236, 277
Addison, Joseph, 142-147
Ænea, dancer, 259, 279
Æschylus, 25, 37
Agoust, Louise, dancer, 264
Aguzzi, Mlle., dancer, 276
Albert, Ferdinand, dancer, 209
Albert, Paul, dancer, 209
Albertieri, Luigi, dancer, 279, 280
Albery, James, dramatist, 257
Alembert, Jean le Rond d’, 171
Alençon, Emilienne d’, dancer, 266
Alexander, Appius, 85
Alhambra, 249, 252-275, 308
Alias, M. et Mme., costumiers, 257, 259, 260, 264, 265, 271-273, 276
Allan, Maud, dancer, 274, 310
Allard, Marie, actress and dancer, 168, 203
Allemande (Almain) dance, 68, 74, 115;
by Robert Johnson, 317
Almonti, brothers, dancers, 262, 263, 265
Anderson, Percy, designer of costumes, 279
André, dancer, 109
Angiolini, pupil of Noverre, 213
Anka, Cornélie d’, singer, 255, 257
Arbeau, Thoinot, author of _Orchésographie_, 1588, 60-70, 110,
145
Arlequin. _See_ Harlequin
Arnould, Sophie, dancer, 179, 180
Arundale, Grace, dancer, 265
Arundale, Sybil, dancer, 265
_Atellanæ_, 43
Athenæus, quoted, 23
Auber, D. F. E., composer, 253
Audran, engraver, 132, 134
Augier, Anne Catherine, married Auguste Vestris, 169, 170
Austin, Esther, dancer, 253
Baif, author, 51
Bakst, Leon, ballet producer, 321
Ballard, French printer, 139
Ballet Comique de la Royne, 56-60, 70-73
Ballet-ambulatoire, 83, 87
Beatification of Ignatius Loyola, 83
Canonisation of S. Charles Boromée, 85
Ballet in England from early 18th century, largely imported from
France and Italy, 182
new spirit infused in first half of 19th century, 208
of small artistic value from 1850-1870, 250
revival as London institution at Alhambra and Empire, 251, 308
all British ballet, 316
no State-aided training, 322
Heroic;
eighty given in France from 1589-1610, 88
Pantomime, 114
Russian, 308, 321;
given first at Coliseum, 313;
at Covent Garden, 318;
at Drury Lane, 318;
dancers from the Mariensky, Petrograd, and from Opera House,
Moscow, 318
Savoy, Court of, 89-91
Ballets:
Acis and Galatea, 208
Aladdin, 261
Veil of Diamonds, 261
Alaska, 285
Alchemists, of, 96
Alcibiade, 101
Algeria, 260
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, 264
All the Year Round, 269
Alma, 241
Amour, Malade l’, 101
Amour Vengé, l’, 208
Amours Déguisés, les, 101
Antiope, 260
Asmodeus, 260
Astrea, 260
Automne Bacchanale, l’, 217, 311
Babil et Bijou, 259
Bacchus et Ariane, 152
Baigneuse, la, 308
Bayadères, les, 225
Beatrix, 238
Beauties of the Harem, 254
Beauty and the Beast, 264
Belle au Bois Dormant, 226
Belle of the Ball, 292, 294, 295
Bivouac, the, 260
Bluebeard, 264
Britannia’s Realm, 267
Pas des Patineurs, 267
Bugle Call, the, 289
By the Sea, 281
Cadmus, 111
Caractères de la Danse, 157, 180
Camargo, 316
Carmen, 258, 268, 275
Carnaval (Schumann), 320, 321
Carnaval de Venise, le, 225, 244, 258
Cassandra, 99
Castor and Pollux, 217
Cécile, 280
Chercheuse d’Esprit, la, 181, 185
Chicago, 262
Chinois, 171
Cinderella, 289
Cinq Seul, le, 244
Cinquantaine, 169
Cleopatra, 280
Cleopatra (Glazounov), 320, 321
Cloches de Corneville, les, 273
Colour of Life, the (dance-_scena_), 315
Coppélia, 277
Coppélia (Delibes), 290, 295, 296, 298, 325
Coq d’Or, le, 321
Cupid, 260
Cupid in Arcadia (Comic), 254
Dance Dream, the, 275
Dancing Doll, the, 289
Dancing Master, the, 301
Danse, la, 282, 316
Day in Paris, 298, 299
Day Off, a, 265
Débutante, the, 291, 296, 301
Débutante, the, new edition, 305
Demon’s Bride, the, 254
Devil’s Forge, the, 267
Diable au Violon, le, 243
Diana, 279
Dieu Bleu, le, 319
Dilara, 279
Don Juan, 217
Don Quixote, 262
Dream of Wealth, 280
Dryad, the, 296-298
Duel in the Snow, 280
Enchantment, 260
Endymion, 169
Entente Cordiale, the, 270
Eoline, 245
Europe, 306
Excelsior, 251
Fairies’ Home, the, 255
Fantaisie Chorégraphique, 301
Faun, the, 302
Faust, 282
Femina, 275
Fernando Cortez, 217, 225
Fête Galante, la, 290
Fêtes d’Adam, les, 182
Fêtes de Bacchus et de l’Amour, 104, 109, 111
Fêtes d’Hébé, les, 185
Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour, 181
Fêtes Vénitiennes, les (opera ballet), 138, 139
Fidelia (le Violon du Diable), 262
Filets de Vulcain, les, 227
Fille du Bandit, la, 245
Fille du Danube, la, 238
Fille de Marbre, la, 242
First Love, 304
Flora, 99
Flore et Zephire, 208, 226, 227
Gardes Françaises, les, 256
Gay City, the, 266
Gemma, 243
Giselle, 236, 238, 277
Gitana, la, 231
Golden Wreath, 257
Gretna Green, 266
Handy Man, the, 266
Happy Shipwreck, the, 208
Hertha, 244
Horoscope, the, 240
Hungary, 253
Hurly Burly, 277
Hvika, 250
Ideala, 260
Impatience, l’, 101
Inspiration, 266
Iphigénie en Aulide, 217
Irene, 260
Jack Ashore, 265
Japan, in, 266
Jugement de Pâris, le, 231, 245
Pas des Déesses, 246
Lac des Fées, 241
Laura and Lenze, 208
Lydie, 226
Médée et Jason, 201
Melusine, 260
Memnon, 259
Milliner Duchess, the, 288, 296
Mirza, 185
Monte Cristo, 282
Mountain Sylph, 254
Mystères d’Isis, les, 217
Nadia, 260
Napoli, 266
Narcisse, 321
Nations, Les, Parisian Quadrille, 253
New York, 303
Nina the Enchantress, 260
Ninette à la Cour, 185
Nisita, 281
Old China, 287
Ondine, 241, 242
On the Square, 274
Or, Le Coq d’, 322
Orfeo, 281
Oriella, 261
Our Army and Navy, 260
Our Crown, 287
Palace of Pearl, 277
Papillons, les, 286
Paquita (Grisi), 239
Paquita (Alhambra), 274
Paris Exhibition, 280
Parisiana, 271
Peri, the, 237, 238
Perseus, 111
Plaisirs, les, 101
Polly, 277
Premier, Navigateur, le, 185, 186
Press, the, 284
Printemps, Le Sacre du, 322
Psyche (1787), 202
Psyche (Alhambra), 275
Puella, 254
Pygmalion, 152
Queen of Spades, 271, 272
Raillerie, la, 101
Reaper’s Dream, the, 304
Réception d’une jeune nymphe à la cour de Terpsichore, 225
Red Shoes, the, 265
Rip van Winkle, 264
Roberto il Diavolo, 300, 325
Robert Macaire, 280
Rose d’Amour, 279
Rose de Séville, 250
Rosière, la, 185
Round the Town, 281
Round the Town Again, 286
Round the World, 300
Sacre du Printemps, le, 320
Salandra, 260
Sal! Oh My! 274
Sappho and Phaon, 208
Scheherazade, 316
Seaside, 286
Seasons, the, 260
Ship Ahoy! 302
Sicilien, le, 225
Sioux, the (comic), 261
Sir Roger de Coverley, 292
Sleeping Beauty, 261
Soldiers of the Queen, 266
Spectresheim, 254
Spectre de la Rose, le, 321
Sports of England, 279
Swans, the, 260
Sylph of the Glen, 254
Sylphide, 224, 227, 228, 236, 238, 241, 244, 296, 315
Sylphides, les, 320, 321
Sylvia, 277, 303
Télémaque, 202
Temps, le, 101
Temps de la Paix, le 112
Temptation, 261
Titania, 304
Tobacco, of (1650), 97
Tribulations d’un Maître de Ballet, 231
Triomphe de l’Amour, 111
Triumph of Bacchus, 101
Triumph of Venus, 100
Two Flags, the, 273
Two Gregorys, the, 254
Under One Flag, 282
Versailles, 281, 316
Vestale, la, 217, 225
Victoria and Merrie England, 264
Village Festival, 260
Vincennes, 101
Vineland, 288
Vine, The, 306
Vivandière, la, 243
Water Nymph, the, 304
Wildfire, 256
Yolande, 225
Zanetta, 260
Zephyre, 203
Ballon, M., dancer, 106, 110, 115, 123
Baltasarini. _See_ Beaujoyeux
Banquet-ball, 53-55, 71
Baron, author, 61
Basse-dance, 63-66
Bathyllus, Roman actor, 44-46, 114, 119
Baudiery-Laval, maître de ballet, 106, 110
Baudiery-Laval, Michel-Jean, dancer, 106, 110
Baum, John, manager Alhambra, 254
Beauchamps, dancer, 62, 106, 109-111, 164
Beaujoyeux (Baltasarini), designer of Ballet Comique de la Reine,
1581, 56-60, 70-73, 82
Beaumont, Francis, dramatist, 74
Beaupré, Mlle., dancer, 203
Bedells, Phyllis, dancer, 292, 299-305, 306
Belloni, actor, famed as Pierrot, 133
Beni Hassan, 29, 31
Benserade, arranged ballet of “Cassandra” in which Louis XIV
appeared, 99
Benson, F. R., 313
Bensusan, S. L., adapted ballet from his novel, _Dede_, 266
Berein, Francis, theatrical mechanician, 111
Berend, Rosa, actress, 259
Bergonzio di Botta, arranged the Banquet-ball, 1489, 52-56, 71, 82
Bertin, Antoine, author, 139
Bertrand, A., ballet master, 255-258, 276
Bessone, Mlle., dancer, 260
Bianchini, designer, 276
Biancolelli, Pierre-François (Domenique), actor, famed as Arlequin,
133, 134
Bias, Fanny, dancer, 203
Bigottini, Mlle., dancer, 203, 204
Bishop, Will, dancer, 282, 286
Blande, Edith, actress, 259
Blasis, Carlo, actor, dancer, writer, and Director of Imperial
Academy of Dancing and Pantomime at Milan, 23, 24, 148,
213-220, 222, 272, 319, 320
Blasis, Francesco, 214
Blasis, Teresa, sister of Carlo, 218
Blasis, Vincenza Coluzzi Zurla, 214
Blasis, Virginia, sister of Carlo, prima donna, 218
Blaze, Castil, writer on Paris Opera, 72, 111, 172;
quoted, 228
Blondi, dancer, 106, 110, 158
Boileau, Nicolas, Sieur Despréaux, 196, 200
Bolm, Adolphe, dancer, 296, 299, 301
Bonnet, author, 61
Bordin, Maria, dancer, 272, 273
Bouffon, dance, 63, 74
Bourgeois, composer, 113
Bourrée, dance, 318
Brancher, Mlle., dancer, 203
Branle (bransle) dance, 63, 64, 68, 69
Bright, Dora, composer, 296, 302, 315, 317
Brissac, Duc de, 56
Britta, Mlle., dancer, 274, 275
Brocard, Mlle., dancer, 209, 228
Broughton, Phyllis, dancer and actress, 249, 295
Browne, William, poet, 74
Brutton, W. M., architect, 271
Buckley, Reginald, 325
Bunn, manager Drury Lane, 238
Byng, G. W., musical director Alhambra, 265-268, 272-274
Cachucha, dance, 212
Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 275
Calverley, C. S., translation quoted, 34
Camargo, Marie-Anne de Cupis de, dancer, 115-117, 156-162, 223
Cambert, musician, 104, 113
Campion, Thomas, poet and musician, 74
Campra, composer, 113, 128, 138, 305
Canaries (Canary), dance, 69, 74
Canova, sculptor, 216
Canterbury Music Hall, 249
Captain, The, conventional character of 18th century Italian comedy,
121, 122
Caroso, author, 62
Carr, Osmond, Dr., 292
Carville, Mlle., dancer, 106
Casaboni, Josephine, dancer, 264-266
Casati, M., ballet master, 260
Cavallazi, Malvina, Mme., dancer, 258, 280, 281, 282, 285
Cave, Joseph A., manager Alhambra 254
Cecchetti, M., dancer, 279, 281
Celerier, director of Opera, 191
Cerito, Fanny, dancer, 223, 229, 231, 240-243, 245-247, 278
Cerri, Cecilia, dancer, 264, 265
Chaconne, dance, 71, 115, 166, 317
Chambers, Emma, actress, 255, 258, 259
Chameroy, Mlle., dancer, 203
Chaplin, Nellie, reviver of ancient music and dances, 318
Chapman, George, dramatist, 74
Chevigny, Mlle., dancer, 202, 203
Choiseul, de, Archbishop of Cambrai, 183
Choiseul, Maréchal de, 106
Cibber, Colley, quoted, 17
Cinthio, character in French pantomime, 126
Clarke, Cuthbert, composer, 298, 302
Cleather, Gordon, singer, 297
Clerc, Elise, dancer and ballet producer, 274, 289
Clermont, College of, ballets at, 93
Clotilde, Mlle., dancer, 203
Clown, 121, 123
Cochin, C. N., engraver, 131
Coffin, Hayden, actor, 277
Coliseum, 313
Collette, Charles, actor, 258
Collier, Beatrice, dancer, 299, 303
Collins, Lottie, dancer, 309
Colonna, Mlle., dancer, 253
Columbine, conventional character of 18th century Italian comedy,
122, 123, 126
Comedie Ballet, 73
Comelli, designer of costume, 271-273
Constantini, Angelo, actor, famous impersonator of Mezzetin, 134
Contredanse, 115
Cook, Aynsley, actor, 257, 258
Cook, Furneaux, actor, 258
Coppi, Carlo, ballet producer, 24, 261, 264, 266, 267
Cormani, Mme., dances arranged by, 260, 266, 267
Cormani, Miss, dancer, 271
Corneille, Pierre, author, 115, 123
Costa, Mario, composer, 272
Coulon, Mlle., dancer, 203
Coulon, M., dancer, 225
Courante (Coranto) dance, 63, 67, 68, 81, 115, 317
Covent Garden Theatre, 152, 295, 308
Cracovienne, dance, 212
Craig, Gordon, 315, 324
Craske, Dorothy, dancer, 289, 290
Crozat, patron of Watteau, 132, 138
Crystal Palace, 249
Curti, Alfredo, ballet master, 24, 271, 272, 273, 275
Dalcroze, Jacques, 325
Dallas, John J., actor, 257
Dance, older than drama, 26
early instinct of mankind, 27
ritual of, in Egypt, 28
sacred, secular, theatrical, 28, 40
in Greece, 31-40
in Greek drama: _Emmeleia_, _Hyporchemata_,
_Kordax_, _Sikinnis_, 37, 63
Pyrrhic, 38
in honour of Jupiter, of Minerva, of Apollo, of Innocence to
Diana, of Delos to Venus, 38
in Eleusinian mysteries, 39
Collar, 39
individualistic, 39
Dancing, value of personality in, 283
Daniel, Samuel, poet, 74
Dauberval, dancer, 166, 180, 202, 203, 216
Dauberval, Mme. (_née_ Mlle. Theodore), dancer, 203
Davenant, Sir William, 304
David, G. Mlle., dancer, 257
David, Jacques Louis, painter, 182
Davies, Sir John, author of _Orchestra, or a Poeme on
Dauncing_, 67
Dekker, Thomas, dramatist, 74
Delaborde, financier, 183
Delaplace, actor, played Scaramouche, 134
de la Roque, Antoine, 138;
librettist of “Médée et Jason,” 138
Delibes, composer, 277, 290, 298, 303
Dervieux, Mlle., dancer, 185
Desaix, M., dancer, 106
Deshayes, M., dancer and producer of ballet, 203, 208, 241
Desmarets, composer, 113
Desmares, Mlle., Danish actress, 135
Desmatins, Mlle., dancer, 111
Desnos, Bishop of Verdun, 183
Despréaux, Jean, dancer and poet, 190-201
Destouches, composer, 113, 317
Didelot, M., ballet master, 203, 208, 226
Diderot, Denis, encyclopædist, 171
Doctor, The, conventional character of 18th-century Italian comedy,
121, 122, 126, 134
Dolaro, Selina, actress and dancer, 256
Dolivet, M., dancer, 111
Dorat, poet, 171, 185
Dorival, Mlle., dancer, 187
Dowsett, Vernon, stage manager Alhambra, 260
Drama, early, 25-29
Drury Lane Theatre, 142, 237, 295, 308
Dryden, Alexander, 304
Dumoulin, M., dancer, 116, 158
Duncan, Isadora, 153, 310, 313, 314, 325
Duport, M., dancer, 203
Dupré, Louis Pierre, dancer, 110, 116, 164, 203
Duverney, Pauline, dancer, 209, 210, 292
Edelinck, engraver, 134
Edwardes, George, theatre manager, 277, 281, 284
Egville, d’, M., producer of ballet, 208
Elia, Mlle., dancer, 261
Elliots, the, family of dancers, 254
Elssler, Fanny, dancer, 210-212, 248, 278, 292
Elssler, Thérèse, sister of above, dancer, 210-212
Emmanuel, _La Danse Grecque_, 35
Empire Theatre, 252, 276, 294-308
closed, October 27 to November 2, 1893, by County Council, 282
Espinosa, ballet producer, 249
Espinosa, Edouard, dancer, actor and producer, 305
Espinosa, Judith, dancer, 266
Eularia, character in French pantomime, 126
Euripides, 25
Fabbri, dancer, 249
Fairs, Theatres of the, 109, 128-130, 132, 133
St. Germain, February to Easter, 128, 133
St. Laurent, June to October, 128, 133, 140, 150
Falcon, Mme., singer, 244
Fandango, dance, 212
Farinis, the, gymnasts, 253
Farnie, H. B., librettist, 256, 258, 276
Farren, Fred, dancer, actor and producer, 266, 289, 290, 299-304,
306
Faustin, designer of costumes, 258, 276
Favart, Mme., dancer, 181
Favier, M., dancer, 109
Fedorova, Sophie, dancer, 320
Fernon, Mlle., dancer, 111
Ferrabosco, Alfonso, composer, 76
Ferraris, Amalia, dancer, 249
Ferté, de la, M., Director de l’Académie, 187, 188
Feuillet, ballet master, 62, 106
Fleming, Noel, actor, 300
Fletcher, John, dramatist, 74
Fokine, Michel, ballet producer, 24, 322, 326
Fontanes, President of the French Legislative Chamber, 204
Ford, A. G., stage manager Alhambra, 262
Ford, Bert, dancer, 301
Ford, Ernest, composer, 282
Foucarts, the, gymnasts, 253
Fouquet, Comptroller of Finances, 99
Fragonard, 125, 181, 290
Francine, a director of Royal Academy of Dance and Music, Paris, 157
Francoeur, director of Opera, 19
Fuller, Loie, dancer, 312
Fuseli, Henry, painter, 214
Gaillarde (_cinq-pas_), dance, 63, 66, 81, 317
Galeazzo, Duke of Milan, 53, 54
Gallini, director of Opera in London, 187, 188
Ganne, Louis, composer, 266
Gantenberg, Edvige, dancer, 286
Gardel, Maximilien, maître de ballet, 23, 172, 181, 217, 320
Gardel, Pierre, brother of above, 201, 202
Garrick, David, 165, 171, 214, 308
Gascoigne, George, poet and dramatist, 74
Gautier, Théophile, 24, quoted 227, 236, quoted 237, 243
Gavotte, 63, 69, 161, 317
Geltzer, Catrina, dancer, 275
Génée, Adeline, 119, 220;
début in London, 283, 284-298, 300, 316
Génée, Alexandre, uncle to Adeline, 284, 300
Gersaint, correspondent of Watteau, 138
Gherardi, Evariste, quoted, 122
Gigue, dance, 115, 317
Giles, Thomas, dance-master, 76, 81
Gillert, Mlle. T. de, mime, 255-259
Gilles. _See_ Pierrot
Gillot, Claude, engraver, 126, 127, 137
Gilmer, Albert A., manager Alhambra, 262
Giuri, Mlle., dancer, 280
Glazounov, composer, 318
Glover, James W., composer, 271
Gluck, Christoph, composer, 172, 201
Goncourt, Edmond, 179, 187, 196
Goncourts, de, 138
Gorsky, Alexander A., ballet producer, 275
Gosselin, Mlle., dancer, “the boneless,” 203, 217
Grahn, Lucile, dancer, 223, 229, 231, 244-248
Granville, Violet, actress, 258
Gregory, Nazianzen, quoted, 49
Grétry, composer, 201
Greville, Eva, dancer, 250
Grey, Miss Lennox, singer and actress, 256
Grey, Sylvia, dancer, 251, 295
Grigolati troupe, 263
Grimaldi, 42
Grisi, Carlotta, 119, 164, 223, 229, 231, 235-239
Grisi, Giuditta, singer, cousin of Carlotta, 235
Grisi, Giulia, singer, cousin of Carlotta, 235
Gueméné, Prince de, 186
Guerrero, Mme., dancer, 268
Guimard, Madeleine, dancer, “le squelette des Grâces,” 179-195, 199,
201, 202, 233
Haggard, Sir Rider, ballet founded on his _Cleopatra_, 280
Hahn, Reynaldo, composer, 320
Hall, Edward, chronicler, 72
Hamoche, actor, famed as Pierrot, 133
Handel, George F., composed “Terpsichore” for Mlle. Sallé, 153
Hardouin, dancer, 112
Harlequin, 122, 123, 126, 133
Harlequinade, 41, 123
Harris, Sir Augustus, theatre manager, 277
Hastings, Charles, quoted, 43
Hawthorne, Ethel, dancer, 264
Haymarket Theatre (King’s), 151, 218
Heberlé, Mlle., dancer, 235
Heinel, Mme., dancer, wife of Gaetan Vestris, 168, 187
Henley, W. H., poet, 316
Henry, M., dancer, 203
Hermitage, the, Petrograd, 135
Herne, Hieronimus, dance master, 76
Herodotus, 30
Hersee, H., 276
Hertford House, 133, 135-137, 161
Hervé, composer, 276, 279, 280
Hilligsberg, Mme., 208
Hippodrome, 311
Hitchins, H. J., manager Empire, 276, 277, 298
Hofschuller, Fräulein, dancer, 276
Holland, William, manager Alhambra, 259
Hollingshead, John, 252, 253, 261, 276
Hooten, Miss, dancer, 262, 263
Howell, James, business manager Alhambra, 265
Hylas, roman actor, 45, 46
Iliad, quotation from Book xviii, 32
Isabella of Aragon, 53, 54
Isabelle, conventional character of 18th-century Italian comedy,
122, 126
Italian comedians in Paris, 125, 129, 137
early troupe in 1576, _Gli Gelosi_, 126
Fiorelli’s Royal troupe, Palais Royal, 126
banished from France, 1679-1716, 127
at Theatres of the Fairs, 128, 129
troupes of Mme. Jeanne Godefroy, Von der Beck, of Christopher
Selles, of Louis Nivelon, of St. Edmé, of Constantini
(known as Octave), 129, 133, 134
Jacobi, G., composer, 255, 257, 258, 260, 261, 263, 264
Jarente, de, Bishop of Orleans, 183
Johnson, Robert, composer, 318
Jones, Inigo, 76
Jones, Sidney, composer, 289
Jonson, Ben, 74, 81, 82
Josset, Mlle. M. A., dancer, 256
Joukoff, Leonid, dancer, 305
Joyeuse, Duc de, 56
Julian the Apostate, 49
Julie, Mlle., dancer, 259
Jullienne collection of engravings after Watteau, 125, 126, 131, 135
Justinian, Emperor, 48
Karina, Mme., dancer, 315
Karsavina, Mme., 119, 220, 315, 320
“King Arthur,” poetic drama, 324
Kiralfy, Imre, 253
Kiralfy, Bolossy, 253
Kiralfy, Aniola, 253
Kosloff, M., ballet producer, 316
Kyasht, Lydia, dancer, 296, 298-305, 314
Laborie, M., dancer, 203
La Bruyère, quoted, 105-106, 109
Lafontaine, Mlle., dancer, 111
La Malaguenita, dancer, 275
Lancret, Nicholas, painter, Louis XIV., 112, 125, 154, 156, 161, 290
Lanner, Katti, Mme., maîtresse de ballet, 24, 226, 250, 259,
278-282, 308
her National School of Dancing, 278
Lanner, Joseph, waltz composer, 278
Lany, M., dancer, 203
Lapierre, dancer, 109
Laporte, 208
La Salmoiraghi, dancer, 262
Lau, Comtesse de, 189
Lauri family, dancers, 254, 261
Laverne, Pattie, singer, 256
Lawton, Frank, whistler, 274, 286
Leandre, conventional character of 18th-century Italian comedy, 122
Le Basque, dancer, 106
Le Breton, Mlle., dancer, 106
Lecocq, composer, 258
Ledoux, architect, 182
Lee, Miss Rose, actress, 257
Le Fré, Albert, dancer, 265
Legallois, Mlle., dancer, 217
Legnani, Mlle., dancer, 260, 262
Leigh, Henry S., dramatist, 257, 258
Leoffeler, Miss L., dance-mistress and producer, 317
Lenoir, architect, 202
Léo, composer, 277
Leon, Virginia, dancer, 217
Leonora, La Belle, dancer, 274, 275
Leotard, gymnast, 252, 253
Le Peintre, Mlle., dancer, 111
Lepicq, M., dancer, 203
Leroux, Pauline, dancer, 210, 228, 292
Le Sage, Alain, 150
Leslie, Fanny, actress, 259
Leslie, Fred, actor, 258, 259
L’Etang, M., dancer, 111
Lethbridge, Alice, dancer, 251, 295
_Lettres sur la Danse, et sur les Ballets_, by Noverre,
published 1760, English translation 1786, 173;
quoted, 174-178
Levey, Florence, dancer, 250
Ligne, Prince and Princesse de, 157
Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, (Duke’s), 123, 142, 150, 151, 304
Lind, Jenny, singer, 248
Lind, Letty, dancer, 251, 295
Locke, John, author, 114
Longhi, Giuseppe, engraver, 216
Longus, vintage dance in his novel _Daphnis and Chloe_, 37
Loseby, Constance, actress, 258, 259
Lovati, Mlle., dancer, 264
Love, Mabel, dancer, 295
Lucian, quoted, 23, 34, 39, 147
Lulli, Jean-Baptiste, composer, 104, 110, 113, 128, 138, 305
Lumley, manager of the Opera (Her Majesty’s), 223, 308
Luna, Mlle., dancer, 277
Lutz, Meyer, musician, 282
Lycurgus, 38
McCleery, R. C., scenic artist, 307
Maccus, prototype of Punch, 43, 121
Machiavelli, 215
Madrolle, French publicist, 214
Maine, Duchesse du, 114, 115, 122
Majiltons, acrobatic dancers, 254
Malibran, Maria, singer, 235
Malter, the brothers, dancers, 203
“Maneros,” 30
Manzotti, ballet producer, 24, 251
Mapleson, manager Covent Garden, 250
Marguerite of Lorraine, 56
Maria la Belle, Mlle., dancer, 271
Marie, Mlle., dancer, 262
Marie Antoinette, Queen, 173, 316
Marinette, character in French pantomime, 126
Marius, M., actor, 277
Marmontel, Jean François, writer, 184
Martell, F., Miss, dancer, 304
Martinetti, Paul, ballet producer, 280
Marvin, Fred, actor, 259
Mask first discarded by Gaetan Vestris in dancing, 167
Masque, 60, 72, 73, 82, 87
list of notable, 1585-1609, 74
Elizabethan, 308
Matachin, dance, 63
Mathews, Julia, actress, 254
Matthews, Miss, dancer, 259, 260
Maupin, Mlle. de, dancer, 112
Mauri, Rosita, dancer, 249
May, Miss Alice, actress, 258
May, Jane, Mlle., 119, 271
Mazurka, dance, 212
Melville, Mlle., dancer, 255
Menestrier, Abbé, quoted, 21, 22, 23, 81, 83
Méry, poet, 227
Meursius, 40
Mezzetin, conventional character of 18th-century Italian comedy,
122, 126, 134
Miller, Mlle., dancer, later Mme. Pierre de Gardel, 202, 203
Minuet, 317;
Lady Elizabeth Spencer’s, 318
Molière, Jean Baptiste, 73, 104, 121, 126
Monkhouse, Harry, actor, 259
Monteclair, composer, 113, 139, 305
Montessu, Mme. (_née_ Albert), dancer, 209
Moore, Marshall, producer, 317
Mordkin, dancer, 164, 217, 310, 311
More, Unity, dancer, 301, 303, 305
Moreau, Junior, engraver, 197
Morino, Mlle., dancer, 272-274
Morisque dance (Morris), 69, 74
Morton, Charles, theatrical manager, 256, 259, 260
Mossetti, Carlotta, dancer, 274, 275, 302, 306
Motteaux, translator of Don Quixote, 144
Moul, Alfred, manager Alhambra, 263-265, 267, 271, 273, 275
Mouret, composer, 113, 115, 123, 305;
bourrée by, 318
Muller, Rosa, dancer, 259
Muller, Marie, dancer, 259
Musetto, dance, 166
Mystery plays, 30
Napoleon and Bigottini, 204
Netscher, Theodore, painter, 134
Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col., 298, 300, 303
Nijinsky, dancer and ballet producer, 320
Ninon de l’Enclos, 106, 190
Nivelon, dancer and mime, 113, 123
Noblet, Alexandrine, dancer, 209
Noblet, Lise, dancer, 209, 210
Nodier, Charles, author, 228
Nourrit, Adolphe, writer, 228
Noverre, Jean Georges, ballet master and writer on the dance, 23, 24;
quoted 115, 148, 152, 165, 166, 168, 171-178, 181, 201, 203, 213,
222, 272, 320
Nuittier, maître de ballet, 24
Octave, 126
Octavie, conventional character of eighteenth-century Italian comedy,
122
Offenbach, Jacques, composer, 254, 257, 258, 259, 288
Opera--National. _See_ Royal Academy of Dance and Music
Operas (opera-bouffe, etc.):
Belle Hélène, la, 254
Billee Taylor, 277
Callirhoé, 138
Chilperic (musical spectacle), 276
Créüse l’Athénienne, 138
Don Juan, 254
Fatinitza (comic), 257
Faust-Up-to-Date (comic), 250
Favorita, la, 236
Fille de Mme. Angot, 256
Fille du Tambour-Major, 259
Fledermaus, die, 255
Geneviève de Brabant, 257
Grand Duchess, 257, 292
Lady of the Locket (extravaganza), 277
Muette di Portici, la, 209, 244
Orphée aux Enfers, 255
Petite Mademoiselle, la, 258
Poule aux Œufs d’Or, la, 258
Princesse de Carisme, 150
Princesse de Trebizonde, 258
Roi Carotte, le, 254
Whittington, 254
Zingaro, le, 236
“Palace Girls,” 311
Palace Theatre, 309
Palladium Theatre, 310
Palladino, Emma, dancer, 259, 260, 279, 281
Panorama of Balaclava, 276
Pantaloon (Pantalon), 121-123, 126
Pantin, 181, 182
Pantomime, English, 123
French, 121, 125
Italian, 121, 122, 124
Roman, 41-46, 119, 120
Pantomimes:
Arlequin, Emperor in the Moon, 122
Jason, 122
Man of Fortune, 122
Proteus, 122
Sorcerer, 123
Enfant Prodigue, l’, 43, 119, 253, 271
Cause of Woman, 122
Columbine, Advocate, 122
Divorce, 122
On the Roofs (pantomime ballet), 261
Rothomago (Fairy Spectacle), 258
Sculptor and the Poodle (musical), 261
Sumurun, 43, 314
Where’s the Police? 253
Pappus, forerunner of Pantaloon, 43, 121
Pascariel, character in French pantomime, 126
_Pas de Quatre_, 1845, 223, 229, 231, 239, 245
Passacaille, dance, 115, 166
Passani, Mlle., dancer, 256
Passepied, dance, 115-117, 166, 318
Pater, Jean Batiste, painter, 160, 290
Paul V, Pope, 85
Paulton, Harry, actor, 255, 256, 258, 259
Pavane, dance, 63, 64, 66, 317
Pavlova, Anna, dancer, 217, 310, 311, 314
Pécourt, dance master, 62, 106, 110, 111, 305
Pedrolino. _See_ Pierrot
Pérignon, Mme., dancer, 202, 203
Perregaux, banker, 187
Perrin, Abbé, 104
Perrot, dancer, husband of Carlotta Grisi, 231, 235, 246
Perrot, maître de ballet, 24, 242
Persiani, Mme., singer, 241
Pertoldi, Mlle., dancer, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 277
Peslin, Mlle., dancer, 187, 203
Petipa, dancer, 238, 249
Philips, Ambrose, poet and dramatist, 144
Phrynichus, 37
Picard, comic poet, 191
Piccinni, composer, 201
Pierrot (Pedrolino, also Gilles), 122, 123, 133
Pitteri, Mlle., dancer, 254
Pius IV, Pope, 85
Plato, 34
Plutarch, 37
Poisson, family of Parisian actors:
Raymond, 134
Paul, 134
François, 134
Pollini, Mlle., dancer, 261
“Pomp” Thyrennian, 85
Pomponette, Mlle., dancer, 273
Porpora, manager of Haymarket Theatre, 153
Porro, dancer, 262
Pratesi, M., ballet master, 265, 266
Prévôt, Mlle., dancer, 106, 115-118, 123, 157, 158
Price, Lilian, dancer, 250
Pugni, composer, 242
Punchinello, 122
Pylades, Roman actor, 44-46, 59, 114, 119
Quinault, 104, 113
Rameau, Jean Philippe, composer and writer on music, quoted, 115,
185, 305, 320
Ravelli, director of opera in London, 187, 188
Rebel, composer, 113
Reece, Robert, author, 256, 258
Reichstadt, Duc de, l’Aiglon, 211
René, King of Anjou, inaugurated procession of Fête Dieu, 51
Rheims College, ballet at, 91
Riccoboni, _Histoire du Théâtre Italien_, 130
Rich, Christopher, owner of Lincoln’s Inn Theatre, 150
Rich, John, son of above, 123, 142, 150, 151, 308
Richards, Mlle., dancer, 255
Rigaudon (Rigadoon) dance, 71, 161, 318
Righton, Edward, actor, 258
Rimsky-Korsakov, composer, 322
Rivani, theatrical mechanician, 111
Riviere, Jules, conductor, 253
Roffey, Mme., dancer, 260, 262, 263
Roland, Mlle., dancer, 111, 159
Ronald, Landon, composer, 267
Rosa, Mlle., dancer, 255
Rosati, Caroline, dancer, 249
Rosi, G., Signor, actor and dancer, 273, 274
Ross, Adrian, librettist, 292
Rosselli, actor, 259
Rossi, pupil of Noverre, 213
Rossi, Adèle, dancer, 279, 281
Rossi, ballet master, 266
Roy, M., eighteenth-century poet, 132, 138
Royal Academy of Dance and Music, Paris, 99, 102, 109, 112, 147,
152, 157, 165;
Imperial academy in 1807, 191;
Opera, 202;
Opera National, 202;
Théâtre des Arts, 202;
Théâtre de la République et des Arts, 202
Roze, Mlle., dancer, 202
Russell, Howard, costume designer, 262, 263, 264, 265
Ryan, T. E., scenic artist, 260, 261, 263, 264, 265, 272
Ryley, J. H., actor and singer, 256
Sacchini, Antonio, composer, 172, 201
Saharet, Mlle., dancer, 310
St. Cyr, Mimi, dancer, 309
St. Denis, Ruth, dancer, 313
St. Helier, Ivy, dancer, 305
St. John, Florence, actress, 277
St. Leon, musician and ballet master, husband of Fanny Cerito, 231,
242, 243, 246
Sallé, Marie, Mlle., dancer and mime, 115, 116, 123, 150-155,
158-160, 165, 172, 224, 282
Sallé, brother to above, 151
Sampietro, Mlle., dancer, 260
San Carlo Theatre, Naples, 219, 240
Sangalli, Rita, dancer, 249
Santini, Signor, dancer, 271-273, 286
Santley, Kate, actress and dancer, 254
Santori, Mlle., dancer, 279
Sarabande, dance, 71, 318;
by Destouches, 318
Saulnier, Mlle., dancer, 202
Savoy, Court of, ballets at, 89-91, 93-98
Scala, Flaminio, 121
Scala Theatre, London, 312
Scapin, conventional character of eighteenth-century Italian comedy,
122
Scaramouche, conventional character of eighteenth-century Italian
comedy, 122, 126, 134
Sceaux, pantomime at, 114
Schneitzhöffer, composer, 228
Schollar, Ludmilla, dancer, 320
Scott, George, manager Alhambra, 269
Scott, Sir Walter, 209, 210
Seale, Julia, Miss, dancer, 263, 264, 265, 266, 272, 274
Serpette, Gaston, composer, 259
Seymour, Katie, dancer, 281, 295
Sims, G. R., 309
Sinden, Bert, dancer, 281
Sinden, Topsy, dancer, 281, 294
Sirois, picture dealer, 132, 133
Sismondi, Mlle., dancer, 254, 255, 276
Skelley, Marjorie, dancer, 268
Slack, Edith, dancer, 266, 268, 271
Slater, C. Dundas, manager Alhambra, 265, 266, 267
Slaughter, Walter, composer, 261
Smith, Bruce, scenic artist, 262
Smith, E. T., director of Alhambra, 252
Smith, Miss Winifred, author of _Commedia dell’ Arte_, 124
Soldene, Emily, actress, 253, 258
Solomon, Edward, composer, 277
Sophocles, 25
_Sophonisbie_, 51
Sortis, de, Bettina, dancer, 279, 280
Soubise, Prince de, 181, 183, 184, 186, 187, 189
Sourdeac, Marquis de, director of ballet, 104
_Spectator, The_, 113, 142-147;
quoted, 144, 145
Staël, Mme. de (Mlle. Delaunay), 114
Stafford, Audrey, dancer, 266
State-aided Opera and Ballet, 104, 149, 322
Stedman, ballet producer, 317
Steele, Richard, writer, 142, 144, 145
Steps of dances recorded, 62, 65
Storey, Fred, actor, 262, 264
Stoyle, J. D. (Jimmy), actor, 257
Strange, Frederick, manager Alhambra, 253
Subligny, Mlle., dancer, 106, 112-115
Sullivan, Sir Arthur, composer, 264
Suppé, F. von, composer, 257
Tabourot, Jehan. _See_ Arbeau
Taglioni, Marie, 24, 119, 207-209, 222-234, 244-247, 282, 292, 293
Taglioni, Louise, aunt to Marie, 224
Taglioni, Louise, niece to Marie, 231, 246
Taglioni, Philip, ballet master, father of Marie, 224
Tambourin, dance, 161, 166
_Tatler, The_, quoted, 143
Taylor, Miss Daisy, dancer and actress, 273
Tcherepinin, ballet producer, 321
Telbin, scenic artist, 281
Telestes, actor, 37
Thackeray, W. M., 224, 296
Théâtre des Arts. _See_ Royal Academy of Dance and Music
Théâtre de la République et des Arts. _See_ Royal Academy of
Dance and Music
Thebes (Egypt), 29, 31
Theocritus, Idyll xviii, 33-34
Theodora, Empress, 48
Thespis, 25, 37, 87
Thévenard, dancer, 112
Thorwaldsen, sculptor, 216
Tissot, quoted, 215
_Togatæ_, 43
Tolstoy, 18
Training of dancers, Milan, 220;
Petrograd, 220, 299;
general, 221, 222
Tree, Sir H. Beerbohm, 295
Trenchmore, dance, 74
Tresca, 71
Trianon, Petit, 73
Valenciennes, 125, 132, 138
Vanloo, Charles André, painter, 160
Vaughan, Kate, dancer, 251, 277, 295
Vaux-le-Vicomte, Château, 100
Verity, Frank, architect, 289
Véron, manager of Paris opera, 211
Vesey, Clara, actress, 258
Vestris, Auguste Armand, son of Marie Auguste, 170
Vestris, Charles, nephew of Marie Auguste, 170
Vestris, Gaetan Appolino Baltazar, 164-169, 173, 207
Vestris, Marie Auguste, son of Gaetan and Marie Allard, 163, 164,
168-170, 180, 203, 207
Vicenti, de, M., dancer, 260
Victoria, Queen, dolls, 209, 228, 233, 246, 252
Vigarani, theatrical mechanician, 104, 111
Vincent, Ada, dancer, 281, 282
Vismes, de, Director of Opera, Paris, 169
Voisins, Gilbert, Comte de, married Marie Taglioni, 228
Vokes, W., dancer, 289
Volinin, Alexander, dancer, 67, 304
Volta, 63, 66
Voltaire, 153, 159, 167, 171, 174
Wallace Collection, Hertford House, 133, 135, 136, 137
Walse, la, 199
Warde, Willie, dancer, 282
Watteau, Antoine, 125-141, 290
Amour au Théâtre Français, l’, 131, 135, 138, 290
Amour au Théâtre Italien, 125, 130, 138
Amusements Champêtres (Chantilly), 135
Arlequin et Colombine (Hertford House), 133, 136
Arlequin Jaloux, 133
Assemblée dans un Parc (Berlin), 136
Bal sous une Colonnade (Dulwich), 135-137, 139, 291
Champs Elysées, les (Hertford House), 136
Charmes de la Vie, les (Hertford House), 135
Comédiens Italiens, 133
Concert, le (Hertford House), 135-137, 139
Danse, la (Potsdam), 135
Départ des Troupes, 132
Desmares, Mlle., 135
Embarquement pour l’Ile de Cythère, l’ (Louvre), 135, 136, 140
Fête Galante (Dresden), 136, 290
Fêtes Vénitiennes, les (Edinburgh), 135, 138
Gamme d’Amour, la, 136
Gilles (Louvre), 133
Gilles et sa Famille (Hertford House), 133
Indifférent, l’ (Louvre), 135, 140
Jaloux, les, 133
Joueur de Guitare (Musée Condé), 136
Jupiter et Antiope (Louvre), 136
Leçon de Musique, la (Hertford House), 136
Menuet, le (Petrograd), 135
Mézzetin, 133
Poisson en habit de Paysan, 134, 137
Surprise, la (Buckingham Palace), 136
Terrace Party, 290
Watts, Dr. Isaac, 144
Watts, Mrs. Roger, 325
Weaver, John, author of _An Essay towards a History of Dancing_,
and _History of Pantomimes_, 62, 143;
quoted, 145-147, 148
Wenzel, L., composer, 280, 281, 284-288
Weston’s Music Hall, Holborn, 249
Wiesenthal Sisters, dancers, 312
Wilde, William, manager of Alhambra, 252
Wilhelm, C., 24, 259, 276, 279-282, 284-292, 314, 326
Wilmot, Maud, dancer, 250
Wilson, Charles, stage-manager, Alhambra, 265-267, 271
Woodford, H., Secretary and Treasurer, Alhambra, 265
Yarnold, Fred, dancer, 262
Zacharias, Pope, bull suppressing “baladoires,” 50
Zanfretta, Mlle., 119, 282, 285, 286, 289
Zimmermann, Mlle. (Mme. Alexander Génée), dancer, 284
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[1] _Exodus_, XV. 20.
[2] I _Samuel_, XXI. 11.
[3] II _Samuel_, VI. 14.
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