Faire voyager des danses et des idées : la formation d’un espace chorégraphique européen par les « danses gravées » au xviiie siècle

Abstract

Chorégraphie ou l’art de décrire la dance, published in Paris in 1700, presents a scriptural art allowing to establish “dances in characters” (the equivalent, for dance, of musical scores). A careful study of the documents related to this scriptural art reveals the circulations of those dances in characters: for the dancing masters resorting to it, Chorégraphie was becoming a kind of written lingua franca, contributing to the formation of an European choreographic network, within which dances, written works and inventions circulate.