{"product_id":"the-dancing-body-in-renaissance-mark-franko-9781785278013","title":"The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography: Kinetic Theatricality and Social Interaction","description":"\u003cp\u003eRenaissance dance treatises claim that the dance is a language but do not explain how or what dancing communicates. Since the body is the instrument of this hypothetical language, \u003cem\u003eThe Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography\u003c\/em\u003e problematizes the absence of the dancing body in treatises in order to reconstruct it through a series of intertextual readings triggered by Thoinot Arbeau's definition of dance as a mute rhetoric in \u003cem\u003eOrchesographie\u003c\/em\u003e. This book shows that the oratorical model for Arbeau's definition of the dance is epideictic and that although one cannot equate dance and oratorical action, the ends of oratorical action are those of dance: persuasion through charm and emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe analysis of the rhetorical intertext opens the way to a sociological one. Through a reading of courtesy books as well as a chapter of Tuccaro's \u003cem\u003eL'Art de Sauter et Voltiger en l'air\u003c\/em\u003e it is shown that dance and social behavior were not discontinuous in the Renaissance. Instructions for the body can be divided into the categories of the pose and movement. They are examined as a model for the most important and widely practiced dance of the Renaissance: the basse danse. The characteristic motion resides in an opposition as well as an interpenetration of stillness and mobility. This is developed through a reading of fifteenth-century dance theorists' concept of \u003cem\u003emisura\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003efantasmata\u003c\/em\u003e. Stefano Guazzo's \u003cem\u003eLa Civil Conversazione\u003c\/em\u003e is used as a textual interpretant to ascertain the strategy of movement and the pose in the interaction between dancer and spectator. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Franko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1785278010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781785278013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthem Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Mark Franko","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43943826981119,"sku":"9781785278013","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_cf803463-9df6-4f3d-8289-8418738b2bb8.jpg?v=1681500268","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dancing-body-in-renaissance-mark-franko-9781785278013","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}