Notes

Ms. Da Fonseca-Wollheim on Baroque Dance ("Stepping Through History"):
"Remember, you are your cosmos!" their teacher called out as they advanced and retreated to the quiet strains of lute music. "You are taking that sphere with you when you move."
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Just as in Renaissance theory the proportions of the human body give rise to perfect geometric shapes, the Baroque dancer moved inside an invisible sphere measured by the extension and movement of the limbs. "I think of the feet as almost fate," she said, demonstrating the Baroque association of the upper body with the heavens, and the feet and legs with the earth. "They show where you come from."
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treatises on dance, theater and rhetoric, many written by Jesuit priests for whom the purpose of a dramatic ballet was to move the soul.