Raoul-Auger Feuillet

Raoul Auger Feuillet - (* 1653 or 1659/60, † June 14, 1710 ) was a French dancer, ballet master, choreographer, Notator and editor of several publications on the dance. He made ​​a significant contribution to the tradition of dances from the period around 1700, a dance style which is now commonly referred to as " baroque dance ".

Feuillet was the first dancing master, who named the five foot positions in ballet or perhaps an earlier developed and used terminology and systematics published. His 1700 work published Chorégraphie is the first publication in which a new type of dance notation is described. This notation was named after Feuillet Feuillet notation. As has been known for some time that the invention of this writing on Pierre Beauchamp goes back a long time, is spoken of Beauchamp - Feuillet notation " in science increasingly. Feuillet took over the dance technique of his time, and brought them into a system. Was the dance notation as Chorégraphie referred to. nowadays the French terms are used throughout the world.

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