… and Interests move Men in lower Spheres; and I (that have nothing else to do but make Observations) see in every Parish, Street, Lane, and Alley of this Populous City, a little Potentate that has his Court, and his Flatterers who lay …
… was slowly seeded and grown with the arrival of French dancers whose training and performance careers arose from the Paris Opera, established by Louis XIV in 1669 as the Académie d'Opéra. 1 British audiences showed distaste for the … it was renamed the Académie Royale de Musique when Jean-Baptist Lully became its Director. Today it is known as the Paris Opera Ballet. 2 . John Weaver inspired several generations of dancers and choreographers including Gasparro … into fringes of British high society. John Ebers, manager of the King’s Theatre and opera lover, sought to re-create the Paris Opera’s famous and fascinating ‘Foyer De La Danse’, a place men could visit to observe female dancers warming up …
… general project of furthering the Enlightenment; they may not even qualify as a ‘salon’ when compared to those of the Parisian salonnières or the Bluestockings, but if one follows Dena Goodman’s definition, they should be accepted as a …
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