Dance, pantomimeThere are 10 items
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Ballo delle Zingare, rapresentato in Firenze nel teatro dell’Altezza Serenissima di Toscana nel carnouale dell’anno 1614
Florence, Zanobi Pignoni, 1614The Ballo delle Zingare (Dance of the Gypsies) was a costumed festa da ballo performed on 24 February 1614 (stile fiorentino) in the Salone delle Commedie of the Palazzo Pitti for the entertainment of Grand Duke Cosimo II and his wife Maria Maddalena d’Austria. The occasion was the marriage of Maddalena’s lady-in-waiting, Sofia “Todesca” Binestan, to Cavaliere Cosimo da Castiglione, “provveditore di Livorno”. The singer-composer Francesca Caccini (1587-after 1641) composed music (now lost) to Saracinelli’s text and Agnolo Ricci’s choreography, and Giulio Parigi designed the sets. -
Sieg-Streit deß Lufft und Wassers Freuden-Fest zu Pferd zu dem Glorwürdigisten Beyläger Beeder Kayserlichen Majestäten Leopoldi deß Ersten Römischen Kaysers. und Margarita, Gebohrner Königlichen Infantin auß Hispanien dargestellet in dero Kayserlichen Residentz Statt Wienn
Vienna, Matthäus Cosmerovius, 1667A description (with libretto interspersed) of one of the most magnificent of Hapsburg court entertainments, a balletto à cavallo performed on 24 and 31 January 1667 in the inner court square (Innerer Burghof) in Vienna, to celebrate the marriage of the Emperor Leopold I (1640-1705) to the Spanish Infanta Margarita Teresa (1651-1673). The spectacle, involving around a thousand luxuriously dressed actors and two hundred musicians, was created and produced by the Florentine impresario Alessandro Carducci, aided by Carlo Pasetti of Ferrara, who designed theatrical machinery and scenes. “For centuries… [it] has been considered the greatest horse ballet in history” (International Encyclopedia of the Dance).Bound with Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich (circa 1620/1623-1680). Arie per il balletto à cavallo, nella festa rappresentata per le gloriosissime nozze delle SS. CC. MM.tà di Leopoldo Primo, Imperatore Augustissimo, et di Margherita Infanta di Spagna. Vienna, Matthäus Cosmerovin, 1667
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Der Schwätzer und der Leichtgläubige eine Pantomime [Latin text in a parallel column, beginning] Susurro cum nimis Credulo ludus pantomimicus
Augsburg & Vienna, Kaiserlich-Privilegierte Franziskische Reichsakademie Freier Künste und Wissenschaften, 1764 (27 Horning [February])A suite of twelve prints illustrating scenes in the pantomime “Der Schwätzer der Leichtgläubige”, a carnival entertainment performed in the small auditorium (Aula minor) of Salzburg University, on 27 February 1764. The pantomime was enacted during an intermission of the tragedy “Pietas in patriam” and is dedicated by its author, Florian Reichssiegel, to Prince-Archbishop Siegmund Christoph von Schrattenbach. The principal characters are the clowns Harlequin, Hanswurst, and Pierrot; a synopsis of the action (in Latin and German) appears beneath each print. The scenes were drawn by the Salzburg stage designer Matthias Siller (1710-1790) for the Augsburg printmakers Philip Andreas Degmair (1711-1783) and Johann Philip Haid (1730-1806). The title and prints 2, 8, [10] are mezzotints; prints 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12 are line engravings. Joined to our suite are duplicate impressions of plates 4 and 5 (both with contemporary hand-colouring). -
Flore et Zephyr Ballet mythologique Dedié à [vignette of Marie Taglioni as Flore] par Théophile Wagstaff [pseudonym of Thackeray; this title printed on wrapper cover]
London & Paris, [printed by Graf & Soret] for John Mitchell & Rittner & Goupil, 1836Only edition of Thackeray’s first publication, a volume of caricatures of a ballet divertissement in two acts performed during April and May 1833 in the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket, London, with the celebrated Marie Taglioni dancing the rôle of Flore and her partner of that year, Monsieur Albert (François Decombe), that of Zéphyr. A modern critic describes it as “a work of no small consequence”, which “establishes precedents and suggests patterns for most of Thackeray’s later major works” (Selma A. Muresianu). -
A poster of Ruth St. Denis, in her “Nautch Dance”, attributed to Will Bradley
[New York?], 1910Printed on two sheets in black on buff paper, dimensions overall 141.6 × 108.1 cm.A very large, unrecorded art poster of the American dancer Ruth (Emma Dennis) St. Denis (1877-1968), most probably created to publicise her “American Tour of East Indian Dances” (November 1909-April 1910), or else her “Coast-to-Coast Tour” (December 1910-May 1911). It is based on a photograph in a book designed by William Henry Bradley (1868-1962), The American stage of to-day: biographies and photographs of one hundred leading actors and actresses (New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1910), and possibly was commissioned from Bradley by the theatrical producer Charles Frohman, organiser of the dancer’s tours. Bradley, the foremost American poster designer of the Art Nouveau movement, had worked for Frohman in 1894 (”The Masqueraders”, New Empire Theatre, New York); further evidence of the artist’s work for the stage has yet to come to light.
Our poster was once in the collection of the choreographer Jack Cole, who in 1930 joined Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, and spent time learning and performing the repertory of the Denishawn troupe (Sotheby’s, Catalogue of the Jack Cole Collection of Books and Pictures on the Dance, Part II, London, 12 November 1979, lot 82). There was no example of the poster in the collection of memorabilia gifted by Ruth St. Denis to the Museum of Modern Art in 1940 (since transferred to the New York Public Library), or among the material sold by her to the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1966-1968.
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Derra de Moroda dance archives : The Dance Library : a catalogue… Edited from the manuscript left by the author by Sibylle Dahms and Lotte Roth-Wölfle (Publikationen des Institutes für Musikwissenschaft der Universität Salzburg, Derra de Moroda Dance Archives; Tanzforschungen; 1)
Munich, Robert Wölfle, 1982(25 cm), xiv (2), 596 pp., [19] p. of plates (figs.1-24). Errata slip loosely inserted. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket, publisher’s plain card slipcase. - A catalogue compiled by the Greek-British dancer and teacher, Friderica Derra de Moroda (1897-1978), an authority on 18th-century dance notation. Her collection was bequeathed to the Institut für Musikwissenschaft of Salzburg University. 2732 catalogue entries. ¶ Superior copy in almost new condition. -
Bibliothèque musicale de la Comtesse de Chambure § Bibliothèque musicale de la Comtesse de Chambure, deuxième vente § Bibliothèque musicale de la Comtesse de Chambure, quatrième vente (catalogues of portions of the collection assembled by Geneviève, comtesse Hubert de Chambure Thibault, sold in Nouveau Drouot, Paris, either jointly by the commissaires-priseurs Ader, Tajan, René Boisgirard, Guy Loudmer, or by Rémi Ader alone, 1993-1997)
Paris, Ader Tajan, 1993-1997Three volumes (28.5 cm), I (Théorie musicale, arts du spectacle: danse, ballet, opéra; 26 May 1993): [124] pp., illustrations (1 in colour). 330 lots. II (Musique instrumentale, opéra, chants profanes, musique religieuse, cantates; 5 April 1995): [124] pp., illustrations. 407 lots. IV (Musique instrumentale et vocale, opéras, ballets, danse, musique religieuse, cantates, motets, airs de cour, chansons profanes et bachiques; danse; histoire et généralités; 25 March 1997): [104] pp., illustrations. 456 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Sale of the library of the eminent musicologist (1902-1975), a specialist in early music. Not present here is Part III: Manuscrits, musique religieuse, opéra, cantates, chants profanes, musique instrumentale, sold on 31 January 1996 (218 lots). ¶ Very good, unmarked copies. -
The art of Terpsichore : from Renaissance festivals to Romantic ballets : an exhibition of dance-related rare books and prints in honor of the Annual Conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars held at Brigham Young University (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, 10-13 February 1994; Friends of the Brigham Young University Library Newsletter, no. 44)
Provo, Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1994(25.5 cm), xvi, 96 pp., illustrations. 130 catalogue entries. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Exhibition of festival books, libretti, almanacs for the theatre season, courtesy books, dance manuals, anti-dance literature, etc. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Dancing by the book : a catalogue of books 1531-1804 in the collection of Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin
New York, Privately printed (distributed by the Pennsylvania State University Libraries), 2003(28.5 cm), xxii, 246 (2) pp., 130 illustrations (some in colour). Publisher’s cloth (no dust jacket issued). - Catalogue of the author’s collection on the history of dance, bequeathed to Pennsylvania State University. 130 catalogue entries. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Hanswurst und Zauberspiel : das barocke Universitätstheater in Salzburg (handlist accompanying an exhibition in the Spielzeugmuseum of the Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum, 18 June-3 October 2003)
Salzburg, Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum, 2004(21 cm), 27 (1) pp., colour illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Brief essays by Gerhard Walterskirchen, Gerhard Plasser, Werner Rainer, Franz Witek, Ingo Reiffenstein, Ernestine Hutter, Franz Fonatsch, Kurt Birsak, Gabriele Ramsauer, Renate Wonsch-Langenfelder. ¶ Very good copy.
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