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Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… tendency of sociability, divisions existed along social, racial and gender lines. Forms of sociability discussed include dance and voodoo on plantations; the culture of maronnage; the mediating role of free women of colour in marriages and … provided occasions for enslaved people to gather. Various African traditions were combined to make spiritual, epic-like dances that told stories of ‘fear, hope, disdain, tenderness, caprice, pleasure, refusal, frenzy, evasion, ecstasy, prostration’ (Fick 40). The calenda was the most popular dance. It lasted many hours and involved people of all ages, even toddlers. Despite the ban on non-Catholic religions, …
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Drury Lane (1740) [ People / Places ]
… then in the full Bloom of what Beauty she might pretend to: Before this she had only been admired as the most excellent Dancer, which perhaps might not a little contribute to the favourable Reception she now met with as an Actress, in this …
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Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… instead of morally depraved. By the same token, it never departs from the rules of decency, whereas in Egypt the dance is one of the specialities of women since it arouses desires. Conversely, in Paris, it is a special kind of jump, … 5 For al-Tahtāwī, the greatest spectacle in Paris was the one called al-ūbbira (the opera), in which the best musicians, dancers and singers performed together. He described the architecture of these theatres as magnificent houses surmounted … of European thought were translated, either by him or under his supervision, 11 as he had learned French under the guidance of Edmé-Fran ç ois Jomard (1777-1862), a veteran of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, and the famous …
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Private theatre performances [ Politics & Society ]
… outside in the snow at midnight after the end of a show? Why, we invited them all to supper, and then we bid them all to dance. It was an entirely well-turned affair (une fête assez bien troussée).’ 4 . Fréron to d’Hemery, 12 October 1753, … marquise Du Deffand, Sceaux, Tuesday, 15 August 1747, D3567. 8 . Desmarest to Devaux, [13 February 1739], in Correspondance de madame de Graffigny, ed. J. A. Dainard (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1985), vol. 1, p. 318. Beyond whatever …
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Frances Burney, Mme d’Arblay (1752-1840) [ Art and Literature ]
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