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Show 544 CONTENTS. CIIAP. II. Study of the Logs - - - - 58 CHAP. III. Sludy of the Body - - . . . 65 CHAP. IV. Study of the A rms - - - - - 67 CHAP. V. Principal Positions, with their Derivatives; Preparations and Terminations; of Steps and Terns; Poses, Attitudes, Arabesques, Groups, and Attitudes de genre - - 72 Action of the Head - - - - ib. Altitude - , - . . ib. Of the Centre of Gravity in a Dancer .- - 73 Counterpoise - - - - ib. Of the Figure that moves against the wind - - - ib. CHAP. VI. Of Tems, Steps, Enchainement, and of the Entrechat - 77 Observations on Entrechat, and on the manner of Beating and Crossing in close-legged and bow-legged Dancers 79 Close-legged Dancers . . . . ib. Bow legged Dancers . . . _ ib. Observations on a person in (re act of leaping - - 80 Physical remarks on a m .n in the act of springing from the ground - 81 In what manner a man makes three movements in leaping - - ib. CHAP. VII. Pirouettes.-Of the manner in which a Dancer must prepare for the execution of his Pirouettes; of the various positions he may take in turning, and of the different wajs of stopping and ending them - - - - 82 CHAP. VIII. Of the Serious Dancer, the Demi-Caraclere, and the Comic Dancer - 88 CHAP. IX. The Preceptor.-New Method of Instruction - 93 Diagrams of Position - . . . 97 Of the Composition of Steps . - 98 APPENDIX. First Exercise.- First Positions • - - 99 Buttemeus . - - . • - 100 |