Fish stew (dance)

The fish stew is a Danse which finds its origin among the marine S French. The air of the fish stew appears for the first time in the opera Alcyone of Marin Marais in 1706. The same year, Raoul-Auger Feuillet publishes his Recueil of fines in which it describes the Chorégraphie fish stew.

It is about a fine “in column”, the partners being laid out in two lines opposite. It is carried out in hopped steps ( half-hitch of gavotte ).

The opera of Marin Marais will be represented with Paris and in province until in 1771 at least and the fine is spread through all France and beyond. Thus, one finds fish stews in the traditional repertory of Provence, Gascon and until the repertory Dutch.

Jean-Michel Guilcher confirms its strong establishment in the Midi and the South-west of the France, like old last Danse of character of the scene to popular environments.

In the Austrian Netherlands and the Principality of Liege, several internal caliper gauge registers the fish stew with their repertory: one preserved of it the trace in the manuscripts of Vandembrile (Namur, 1778), of Fernand Comhaire (Liege, 1805) and of Jean-Guillaume Houssa (Soy, 1845).

Passed in the traditional repertory Walloon, the fish stew gradually became the Maclote and besides the typical step that it employs calls “not maclote”.

Words

Booklet of Antoine Houdar of the Mound for the opera of Marin Marais:

a fish stew

unhappy Lovers,

If thousand annoying shelves

Disturb your wishes,

despair is most dangerous.

Some wind which thunders,

the love the wave

can one calms lose the hope

Quand one knows his capacity?

2nd fish stew

Pourquoi do we fear

That the love does not engage us?

If it is a storm,

the calm one is less soft.

Let us follow our desires,

After some sighs

One arrives at the pleasures.

Why lose a day?

at the veil,

We Put have as a star

the torch of the love.

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