OrchesographyORCHESOGRAPHY.John Weaver translationChapter navigation43 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…ORCHESOGRAPHY.ART OF DANCING,To Mr. Isaac.PREFACE.A List of the Dancing-Masters,Orchesography.The ART of DANCINGOf the Stage, Room, or School.The Presence of the Body.Of the Tract.Of the Positions.Of true Positions.Of false Positions.Of Steps.A Demonstration of all the Steps which have been before explain’d.Steps may have Several Marks.How to place the Marks in their proper Order.Observations upon Springings.Of Springing Steps.Of marking the Positions.Of Positions and half Positions having several Marks at once.Of waving Positions, and half Positions.Of Positions and half Positions, which are wav’d and unwav’d.Of the Change of Positions.Of Positions that shift or change from one place to another.Of the Changing of waving Positions.How to hold the Book or Paper, to decipher written DancesRules to be observ’d in Dancing by written Characters.How to know what Steps and half Positions are with the right Foot, and what with the left.The manner of Steps crossing one another.To return upon a Tract you have just before mov’d on.To know to and from what Positions, Steps move.How Steps terminate in Positions.Of simple and compound Steps.The Tables.Of Time, Measure, or Cadence.Of the Figure.Some Rules to be observed in the Figures of Dances.For giving the Hands in Dancing.Of the Movement of the Arms.Where to place the Motion of the Arms on the Tract.Examples of the Movements of the Arms.Some Rules to be observed in writing of Dances.Beginning of this editionNext chapter →ART OF DANCING,All chapters and sections (43)ORCHESOGRAPHY.ART OF DANCING,To Mr. Isaac.PREFACE.A List of the Dancing-Masters,Orchesography.The ART of DANCINGOf the Stage, Room, or School.The Presence of the Body.Of the Tract.Of the Positions.Of true Positions.Of false Positions.Of Steps.A Demonstration of all the Steps which have been before explain’d.Steps may have Several Marks.How to place the Marks in their proper Order.Observations upon Springings.Of Springing Steps.Of marking the Positions.Of Positions and half Positions having several Marks at once.Of waving Positions, and half Positions.Of Positions and half Positions, which are wav’d and unwav’d.Of the Change of Positions.Of Positions that shift or change from one place to another.Of the Changing of waving Positions.How to hold the Book or Paper, to decipher written DancesRules to be observ’d in Dancing by written Characters.How to know what Steps and half Positions are with the right Foot, and what with the left.The manner of Steps crossing one another.To return upon a Tract you have just before mov’d on.To know to and from what Positions, Steps move.How Steps terminate in Positions.Of simple and compound Steps.The Tables.Of Time, Measure, or Cadence.Of the Figure.Some Rules to be observed in the Figures of Dances.For giving the Hands in Dancing.Of the Movement of the Arms.Where to place the Motion of the Arms on the Tract.Examples of the Movements of the Arms.Some Rules to be observed in writing of Dances.OR, THE◇ART OF DANCING, →