The danse macabre combines both desires: in many ways similar to the mediaeval mystery plays, the dance-with-death allegory was originally a didactic dialogue poem to remind people of the inevitability of death and to advise them strongly to be prepared at all times for death ( see memento mori and Ars moriendi ).

The French term danse macabre may derive from the Latin Chorea Machabæorum, literally " dance of the Maccabees.

Author Anthony Burgess argued for the Gormenghast novels ' status as a major classic of the Twentieth century ; resounding with horrible images drawn from a century of war ; the Holocaust in Sepulchrave's library ; the attaching of a calf's skull to Sourdust's skeleton ; Flay and Swelter enacting their danse macabre in the hall of Spiders.

The Grim Reaper as a personification of Death is a common motif in European iconography ; here, he illustrates a poem on the danse macabre.

The final scene depicting the " Danse Macabre | danse macabre ".

Freund Hein is a skeleton who plays the fiddle and leads a Totentanz or " danse macabre ".

The famous danse macabre, with its dancing depiction of the Grim Reaper carrying off rich and poor alike, is another well-known example of the memento mori theme.

Decayed cadavers can also be used to depict death ; in medieval Europe, they were often featured in artistic depictions of the danse macabre, or in cadaver tombs which depicted the living and decomposed body of the person entombed.

The frescoes also include, among various subjects, a danse macabre to the right of the altar.

Polanski engaged noted choreographer Tutte Lemkow, who played the titular musician in Fiddler on the Roof, for the film's climactic danse macabre minuet.

The word has gained its significance from its use in French as la danse macabre for the allegorical representation of the ever-present and universal power of death, known in English as the Dance of Death and in German as Totentanz.

At Rouen in the cloister of St Maclou there also remains a sculptured danse macabre.

According to Gaston Paris it first occurs in the form macabre in Jean le Fèvre's Respit de la mort ( 1376 ), Je fis de Macabré la danse, and he takes this accented form to be the true one, and traces it in the name of the first painter of the subject.

Isou moves into photography with Amos, ou Introduction à la métagraphologie ( Amos, or Introduction to Metagraphology ), theatre with Fondements pour la transformation intégrale du théâtre ( The Foundations of the Integrated Transformation of the Theatre ), painting with Les nombres ( The Numbers ), and dance with Manifeste pour une danse ciselante ( Manifesto for Chiselling Dance ).

Edgar Degas included the figure of Mérante, in an immaculate white suit, with the traditional baton for beating time on the floorboards, in his 1872 painting Le foyer de danse.

The style of dance is commonly known to modern scholars as the French noble style or belle danse ( French, literally " beautiful dance "), however it is often referred to casually as baroque dance in spite of the existence of other theatrical and social dance styles during the baroque era.

The same manuscripts also contain other pieces named " danse real " or other dance names.

The pavane, the earliest-known example of which was published in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci, in Joan Ambrosio Dalza's Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto in 1508, is a sedate and dignified couple dance, similar to the 15th-century basse danse.

* Le danse de Puck ( Puck's dance ) by Claude Debussy.

" In 1946 it was split into two Conservatoires, one for acting, theatre and drama, known as the Conservatoire national supérieur d ' art dramatique ( CNSAD ), and the other for music and dance, known as the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris ( CNSMDP ).

The Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (" National Superior Conservatory of Paris for Music and Dance ", acronym CNSMDP ) is a separate conservatory for music and dance.

At that time the word " bellydance " had not yet entered the American vocabulary, as Spyropoulos was the first in the U. S. to demonstrate the " danse du ventre " ( literally " dance of the belly ") first seen by the French during Napoleon's incursions into Egypt at the end of the 18th century.

The Lyon Opera Ballet () has a " classical structure directed towards contemporary dance ", with a repertoire of American postmodern dance, various contemporary dance styles and the jeune danse française ( new French dance ), but also including " the radical reinterpretation of some standard works ".

The basse danse, or " low dance ", was the most popular court dance in the 15th and early 16th centuries, especially at the Burgundian court, often in a combination of 6 / 4 and 3 / 2 time allowing for use of hemiola.

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 décrire 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.

They play both regrets ( slow airs ), bourrées ( typical auvergne danse ) and swift, 3 / 8 dance music.

File: La danse ( I ) by Matisse. jpg | The Dance ( first version ), 1909, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Interestingly, the basse danse ( bassa dansa ) was first mentioned in the troubadour tradition ( c. 1324 ), but only as being performed by jongleurs.

File: La danse ( I ) by Matisse. jpg | Henri Matisse, The Dance I, 1909

: 1938: H 131 La danse des morts, ( The Dance of the Dead ) libretto by Paul Claudel

Noverre's Lettres sur la danse ( 1760 ) called for dramatic effect over acrobatic ostentation ; Noverre was himself influenced by the operas of Rameau and the acting style of David Garrick.

File: La danse ( I ) by Matisse. jpg | Henri Matisse, The Dance I, 1909, Museum of Modern Art

It had been previously performed by a number of ensembles including the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris ( CNSMDP ) in March of 2003 and the Seamus Band on 14 October 2005.

The major study on Breton dancing is " La tradition populaire de danse en Basse-Bretagne ", book written from his thesis dissertation, by Jean-Michel Guilcher-new edition by Coop-Breizh-Chasse-Marée / Armen-1995.

*" Alors on danse " by Stromae

In the fine arts, the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (" Academy of Painting and Sculpture ") was founded by Cardinal Mazarin in 1648 and was soon followed by a number of other officially instituted academies: the Académie royale de danse (" Royal Academy of Dance ") in 1661 ; the Académie royale des inscriptions et médailles (" Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Medals ") in 1663 the Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres (" Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Literature " or " Royal Academy of Humanities ") in 1716 ; the Académie royale des sciences (" Royal Academy of Sciences ") in 1666 ; the Académie d ' Opéra (" Academy of Opera ") in 1669 the Académie royale de musique (" Royal Academy of Music ") in 1672 and the Académie de musique in 1791 ; and the Académie royale d ' architecture (" Royal Academy of Architecture ") founded by Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1671.

Among the dances described were the solemn basse danse, the livelier branle, pavane, and the galliarde which Shakespeare called the " cinq pace " as it was made of five steps.

His The Dance Class ( La classe de danse ) of 1874 shows both influences in its asymmetrical composition.

Instrumental ensembles for dances might play a basse danse ( or bassedanza ), a pavane, a galliard, an allemande, or a courante.

In the 1930s the famous Josephine Baker danced semi-nude in the danse sauvage at the Folies and other such performances were provided at the Tabarin.

In 2006, Nightwood Editions published radiant danse uv being ( Jeff Pew & Stephen Roxborough, eds.

radiant danse uv being: A Poetic Portrait of bill bissett.

: Je suis l ' Empire à la fin de la Décadence, Qui regarde passer les grands Barbares blancsEn composant des acrostiches indolentsD ' un style d ' or où la langueur du soleil danse.

He lived long enough to characterize the proceedings of the Congress of Vienna with the famous mot: " Le Congrès danse mais ne marche pas.

File: Moennitarri warrior in the costume of the dog danse 2. jpg | Pehriska-Ruhpa of the Dog Society of the Hidatsa tribe of Native Americans.

*" Garde-moi la dernière danse ( Save the Last Dance for Me )" ( 1961, No. 3 )

Between 1758 and 1760 he produced several ballets at Lyon, and published his Lettres sur la danse et les ballets.