| Title: | Academy ballets |
| Original Title: | Ballets de collége |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 2 (1752), p. 46 |
| Author: | Louis de Cahusac (biography) |
| Translator: | Amanda Chase [Susquehanna University] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Cahusac, Louis de. "Academy ballets." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Amanda Chase. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2016. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.265>. Trans. of "Ballets de collége," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 2. Paris, 1752. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Cahusac, Louis de. "Academy ballets." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Amanda Chase. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.265 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Ballets de collége," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 2:46 (Paris, 1752). |
Academy ballets are those spectacles which are seen in academies for the distribution of prizes. Every year at Louis le Grand, there is a performance of a tragedy and a grand ballet which is very much in the old style. It is like the ballets performed in other courts of Europe, but with more recitatives and fewer choreographed dances.
Ballet usually serves as interludes between acts of the tragedy; in this it has returned to its role among the ancients.
There are several beautiful ballets published in the second volume of Jesuit Father Lejay [1]. Details of many of these works can be found in the work of Father Ménétrier, who wrote an educated treatise on them [2], and who was the most knowledgeable man in Europe on this matter.
Notes:
1. Gabriel François Le Jay and J. A. Amar, Bibliotheca Rhetorum: Praecepta et Exempla Complectens, Quae Ad Oratoriam et Poeticam Facultatem Pertinent, 3 v. (Parisiis: Apud Aug. Delalain, 1809), 147-510, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082502570.
2. Claude-François Menestrier, Des Ballets Anciens et Modernes Selon Les Regles Du Theatre . (Paris: Chez R. Guignard, 1682), http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435017780768.