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Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]

… connection of social interactions. Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Mots-clés Commodity Bodies Theatre Dancers Ballyhoo John Weaver Marie Sallé Jean-Georges Noverre Drury Lane ballerina gentleman patron Arising out of the French court, the ballet … French ballet’s decadence and required their own version of the art form. The English choreographer and dancing master, John Weaver, was a catalyst for this acceptance and progression, timed with London’s blossoming as a metropolis. Weaver …

Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]

… guineas for the opportunity. 2  Other lecturers soon followed in the metropolitan market, including Humphry Ditton and John Harris. William Whiston, expelled from his professorship at Cambridge University for religious heterodoxy, moved to … Button’s in Covent Garden, Douglas’s in St. Martin’s Lane, and the Marine near the Royal Exchange. The Huguenot refugee John Theophilus Desaguliers assumed a similar profile, having studied at Oxford University before he arrived to teach in … Society presided over by Erasmus Darwin in Derby, the Bath Philosophical Society, and the Mathematical Society formed by weavers in Spitalfields in the East End of London. The Lunar Society, which embraced doctors, chemists, and …