Raoul Auger Feuillet (c1653–c1709) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 dance notator

Dance notation

Dance notation is the symbolic representation of dance movement. It is analogous to movement notation but can be limited to representing human movement and specific forms of dance such as Tap dance...

, publisher and choreographer

Choreography

Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" ...

 most well-known today for his Chorégraphie, ou l'art de décrire la danse (Paris, 1700) which described Beauchamp-Feuillet notation

Beauchamp-Feuillet notation

Beauchamp–Feuillet notation is a system of dance notation used in Baroque dance.The notation was commissioned by Louis XIV , and devised in the 1680s by Pierre Beauchamp. It was published in 1700 by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, who began a programme of publishing notated dances...

, and his subsequent collections of ballroom and theatrical dances, which included his own choreographies as well as those of Pécour.

His Chorégraphie (1700) was translated into English by John Weaver

John Weaver

John Weaver was an English dancer and choreographer, and is often regarded as the father of English pantomime....

 (as Orchesography. Or the Art of Dancing) and P. Siris (as The Art of Dancing), both published in 1706. Weaver also translated the Traité de la cadance from Feuillet's 1704 Recŭeil de dances (as A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing, 1706). Feuillet's Recŭeil de contredances (1706), a collection of English country dance

English Country Dance

English Country Dance is a form of folk dance. It is a social dance form, which has earliest documented instances in the late 16th century. Queen Elizabeth I of England is noted to have been entertained by "Country Dancing," although the relationship of the dances she saw to the surviving dances of...

s, was translated into English by John Essex

John Essex

John Essex was an English dancer , choreographer and author who promoted the recording of dance steps through notation as well as performing in London theatre...

 (as For the Furthur Improvement of Dancing, 1710).

External links

• The books of John Weaver Facsimiles and transcriptions of Weaver's translations: Orchesography (1st edition) and A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing.
• The Library of Congress' An American Ballroom Companion
  An American Ballroom Companion
  An American Ballroom Companion is an online collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress related to the period of cca. 1490--1920...
  
  includes several works by Feuillet:
  • Chorégraphie, ou L'art de décrire la dance (1713 edition)
  • Orchesography (2nd ed., undated) translated by Weaver
  • Recueil de dances, composées par Mr. Feuillet (1700/1709)
  • Recueil de dances, composées par M. Pecour (1700/1709)
  • P^er. receŭil de danses de bal pour l'année 1703
  • Recŭeil de dances contenant un tres grand nombres, des meillieures entrées de ballet de Mr. Pecour (1704)
  • Recŭeil de contredances (1706)
  • For the Furthur Improvement of Dancing (1710) translated by Essex
  • Direct access to Feuillet dances accessible via a table of content