Mime, Music and Drama on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: The Ballet d'Action

Contents

• Introduction
• Part I . The Ballet d'Action in Historical Context:
• 1. The voice and the body in the enlightenment
• 2. A revival of Roman pantomime?
• 3. No place for harlequin
• 4. Decroux and Noverre: distant cousins?
• Part II . The Ballet d'Action in Close-Up: Dramatic Principles:
• 5. Character and action
• 6. Dialogues in mime
• 7. Choreography is painterly drama
• 8. The admirable consent between music and action
• 9. Putting performance into words
• Conclusions
• Appendix
• Bibliography.