Women’s Work: Making Dance in Europe before 1800

CONTENTS

C Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Women in Dance History, the Doubly Invisible 3 L M B P  P 1 Isabella and the Dancing Este Brides, 1473–1514 19 B S 2 Fabritio Caroso’s Patronesses 49 A F 3 At the Queen’s Command: Henrietta Maria and the Development of the English Masque 71 A D P P 4 The Female Ballet Troupe of the Paris Opera from 1700 to 1725 99 N L 5 Françoise Prévost: The Unauthorized Biography 123 R A 6 Marie Sallé, a Wise Professional Woman of Influence 160 S MC 7 In Pursuit of the Dancer-Actress 183 M G vii W 8 Elisabeth of Spalbeek: Dancing the Passion 207 K S 9 Galanterie and Gloire: Women’s Will and the Eighteenth-Century Worldview in Les Indes galantes 228 J A. M Contributors 257 Index 261 viii Contents ...