Cesare Negri

(b Milan, c 1535; d ?there, after 1604). Italian dancing-master. His comprehensive treatise Le gratie d′amore (1602) is an important source for social and theatrical dance, containing choreographies and music for 43 dances (including, unusually, some for two and four couples).

Negri, Cesare (b Milan, c.1536 or 1535, d after 1604). Italian dancer, dance master, and dance theorist. From c.1554 he taught dance in Milan; many of his students went on to become dancing masters to royal households across Europe. As a performer, he appeared in masques and royal festivities. From 1569 he also choreographed mascarades and intermedios for royal courts, elaborate allegorical works with enormous casts. He was one of the first to write about dance. His major work was Le gratie d'amore, di Cesare Negri Milanese, detto il Trombone, which was published in Milan in 1602 and reissued two years later as Nuove inventioni di balli. It was reprinted in New York in 1969. The largest dance manual published in the 16th century, it included detailed information on technique, choreography, and historical observation.

Cesare Negri (c. 1535 - c. 1605) Italian dancer and choreographer. He was nicknamed il Trombone, an ugly or jocular name for someone "who likes to blow his own horn." Born in Milan, he founded a dance academy there in 1554. He was an active court choreographer for the nobility in Milan. He wrote Le Grazie d'Amore, the first text on ballet theory to expound the principle of the "five basic positions". It was republished in 1604 as Nuove lnventioni di Balli (New Inventions of the Dance).

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