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Pantomime --- Mime --- Mime. --- Pantomime. --- Dumb shows --- Acting --- Drama --- Musical theater --- Ballet

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This book studies the most important form of theatre in the entire Roman empire—pantomime, the ancient equivalent of ballet dancing. Performed for more than five centuries in hundreds of theatres from Portugal in the West to the Euphrates, Gaul to North Africa, solo male dancing stars—the ancient forerunners of Nijinsky, Nureyev and Baryshnikov—stunned their intercultural and cross‐class audiences with their erotic costumes, gestural delicacy, and dazzling athleticism. In sixteen specially commissioned and complementary studies, the leading world specialists explore the all aspects of the ancient pantomime dancer's performance skills, popularity, and social impact, while paying special attention to the texts that formed the basis of this distinctive art form. The book argues that the core elements that underlay pantomime performances were the presence of a solo male dancer, masked, who used his body rather than speech in an evocation of a mythical story, accompanied by music; however, the venues in which pantomime performances took place, their scale, tone, and selection of additional personnel, could vary enormously. The book pays particular attention to the texts or ‘libretti’ of pantomime, which were sung by accompanying choirs, to the impact of pantomime on ancient aesthetics and rhetoric, and the importance of the medium at the time when modern ballet was invented in the Early Modern period. An appendix of key sources in translation, from Xenophon to Macrobius, assists the reader to identify the most important evidential documents, and includes a translation of A Syriac text on pantomime by Jacob of Sarugh.

Pantomime --- Theater --- Théâtre --- History --- Histoire --- Théâtre --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Dumb shows --- Drama --- Musical theater --- Ballet --- Mime --- Pantomime - Greece - History - To 500. --- Pantomime - Rome - History - To 500. --- Grèce --- Rome --- Antiquité

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Marionettes --- Puppets --- Puppet theater --- Pantomime --- Performing arts --- Marionettes. --- Pantomime. --- Performing arts. --- Puppet theater. --- Puppets. --- Puppets and puppet-plays --- Puppet shows --- Puppetry --- Theater --- Marionnettes à fils --- String puppets --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- Dumb shows --- Drama --- Musical theater --- Ballet --- Mime

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The 'ballet d'action' was one of the most successful and controversial forms of theatre in the early modern period. A curious hybrid of dance, mime and music, its overall and overriding intention was to create drama. It was danced drama rather than dramatic dance, musical drama rather than dramatic music. Most modern critical studies of the ballet d'action treat it more narrowly as stage dance and very few view it as part of the history of mime. Little use has previously been made of the most revealing musical evidence. This innovative book does justice to the distinctive hybrid nature of the ballet d'action by taking a comparative approach, using contemporary literature and literary criticism, music, mime and dance from a wide range of English and European sources. Edward Nye presents a fascinating study of this important and influential part of eighteenth-century European theatre.

Ballet --- Theater --- Pantomime --- European drama --- Music --- Drama, Modern --- European literature --- Dumb shows --- Drama --- Musical theater --- Mime --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Dance --- History --- History and criticism. --- Theatrical science --- Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- anno 1700-1799 --- Europe

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How did composers and performers use the lost art of pantomime to explore and promote the Enlightenment ideals of free expression?

Music --- Pantomime --- Liberty in music --- Political aspects --- History and criticism --- History --- Dumb shows --- Drama --- Musical theater --- Ballet --- Mime --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- 1700-1799 --- France --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Farans --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant͡ --- Frant͡s Uls --- Frant͡sii͡ --- Frantsuzskai͡a Rėspublika --- Frantsyi͡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangs --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Composers. --- Cultural Expression. --- Enlightenment France. --- Enlightenment Ideals. --- Expression. --- Freedom. --- Music. --- Pantomime. --- Performers.