Raoul Auger Feuillet

(b c 1659; d 14 June 1710). French choreographer and dancing-master. He worked at the court of Louis XIV and is important for his Chorégraphie (1700) which describes a system of dance notation used in Europe throughout the 18th century, in which over 350 choreographies are extant. He published annual collections of choreographies from 1702 and in 1704 a superb volume of theatrical dances.

Feuillet, Raoul-Auger (b c.1660, d 14 June 1710). French dancing master, choreographer, author, and reputed inventor of the Feuillet system of dance notation. He taught ballroom dances from his studio in Paris and in 1700 published his Chorégraphie ou L'Art de décrire la danse par caractères, figures et signes demonstratifs, the first known method for using symbols to notate dance. In 1704 he was unsuccessfully sued for plagiarism by Beauchamps who claimed to have invented the system himself 22 years earlier. Feuillet had in fact failed to acknowledge his considerable debt to the latter but had also expanded and improved on Beauchamps's system in his own publication. He continued to embellish and refine it in later publications and also published collections of his own dances. The highly influential Chorégraphie was translated into several languages: P. Siris's English translation, The Art of Dancing Demonstrated in Characters and Figures, appeared in 1706.

Raoul Auger (or Anger) Feuillet (c1653–c1709) was a French dance notator, publisher and choreographer most well-known today for his Chorégraphie, ou l'art de d'écrire la danse (Paris, 1700) which described Beauchamp-Feuillet notation, 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 (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 dances, was translated into English by John Essex (as For the Furthur Improvement of Dancing, 1710).

External links

• Works by Raoul Auger Feuillet at Project Gutenberg
• 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 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

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