DAWN. 
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esperee of the performance in fupport of an additional 
art 
s during the regency of an bea wane ae a re- 
Pp of both 
a 
heard of individual ides of great abilities and attraCtions: 
fuch as m{s Saintlow, a a Barberini, a Sallé, 
the two Pcuffans, the Ae » &c. &c.; but ballets 
yo'ques, ballets hiftoriques, ie allegoriques, &c. feem 
to have had no exiftence in this country till about the mid- 
dle of the laft centusy. 
‘ o have been the firft in modern times 
atever concerns ‘he hee arts in 
confideration and practice of their ballet-m : 
ay onthe Opera, “addreffed to the 
though his country men 
oft 
e pantomime would h 
Bat i us; in ferious and heroic fubje&s the ong and 
all nations, mutt ftrike to the French, who feem na- 
ture and cultivation as ae 
rotefque and comic dance fhould not, in a ferious drama, 
ape the labours of the poet and performer, in excit- 
os y and terror, which Ariftotle makes the confti- 
ae of a tragedy. But even comic dances in a 
theatre thould have fome meaning, fomething to ‘intereft, be- 
h fhould have a 
tomime, in intelligent and eloquent ae os performed by 
nds and features, than by thc feet n Ricoboni’s 
e Sta dancing is never meron and 
Algarotti fays, “it never was a conftituent part of the 
rama, but is always foreign to the ae and very often 
repugnant to it. If the fcene of ation be in Rome, the 
dance is often in Holland or a, sand if the opera is 
ferious, the dance 1 is {ure to be comic.’ 
See viru 
Dance, Country. ounTRY-Dan 
DANCE ER, Rope, — Groddeck, profeffor of 
lifhed a differtation on 
inambulig,”” full of learning, and an 
defines a rope- 
Caps 
firft epiftle, and Pliny, lib. "Vili cap 
phants. that were taught to walk a fie rope. This they 
n.. de champagne, de Bourgogne, 
DAN 
did both backwards and forwards, as well a3 up and down; 
and this feat Galba firt caufed to be exhibited to the Roman 
pees After this, fuch was the confidence repofed in the 
dexterity of the animal, that a perfon fat upon an elephant’s 
cannot be dou 
utwerp. 160 
Dio Ceffius. 
vi upon a 
Groddeck, coming from the hiftorical to the moral 
conlideraton, maintains “that the profeffion of a rope daacer 
ot lawful; that the Dieses are infamous, and aa art 
BF no ufe to fociety ; that the ofe their bodies to very 
great al a : ae that they ough not to be roletated in a 
wellvregulated flat But, coming afterwards to t er the 
feverity of his aoe he allows that there are fom es rea- 
fons for admitting then; that the people muft have fhews ; 
that one of the fecrets of government is to furnifh them there- 
ith, &c. 
ancient rope-dancers ne four feveral ways of exer- 
& 
wh 
em 
3 
co 
OQ 
FX] 
re) 
e 
3° "sto 
In the ou ene oe ventured to ride a 
ung by 
the neck. The fecond flew, or flid, re above, downwards, 
refling on their ftomachs, with the arms and legs extended. 
The third run along a rope ftretched in a right line, or up 
and down. Laftly, the fourth not only walked on a rope, 
but made furprifing leaps and turns thereon. But it is need- 
lefs to recount the various feats of this kind that are ex- 
hibited in our places of public amnfement. 
DANCERIES, an old French term for country-dance 
ie 1564, fou 
books of Danceries, firft writing dow common lively 
tunes, which, till then eet ee erie learned by the 
ear, and played by ene emory, about the eral countries 
{pecified in the title. The editor of thefe books: t 
that they contained Les chant des branles communs, " gais, 
de Poitou, d’Ecoffe, d 
Malte, des Sabots, de la Guerre, & autres gaillardes, ballets 
voltes, baffles dances, hauberrois, allemandes. Printe 
Paris, 1564 
DANCERS, i in Ecclefiafical Hiffory, afe& that {prung 
up at t Aix-la-Chapelle in 1373, and f{pread through Flan- 
of both fexes were fuddenly f h dane- 
the dancers wandered about re- 
courfle to begging for their fubfiftence, — with the ut- . 
moft contempt both the priefthood, and the lag rites and 
worfhip of the church, and held fecret affemblie This new 
3 the wor evil demons, who po 
— rie ssc ribe. Accordingly ile priefts of 
to out the devils, which ren- 
fome wild enthuhatte j ia America, a1d 
_ the appellation of 7 cae, "ee. ald thefe 
more ancient — dan 
in Heraldey, is is when the out-line of any 
DANC 
bordure, or ordinary, is indented — largely ; the larpeaete . 
