Francine Lancelot is a Danseuse, actress and Historien of the dance born with Paris the October 9th 1929 and deceased in this same city the December 25th 2003.

It devoted its life to the old dance, primarily baroque, and with the traditional Danse.

Initiated with the notation of the dance by Pierre Told and with the traditional dance by Jean-Michel Guilcher, it becomes doctor in Ethnologie in 1973 and works for CNRS. It is devoted moreover to make redécouvrir the choreographic repertory Des.

In 1980, it founds the company “Laugh and Danceries” and contributes to the diffusion of the Danse baroque, in particular by going up the Opéra-ballet Atys of Lully in 1986, with William Lincoln Christie and Jean-Marie Villégier.

In 1996, it publishes its major work, Beautiful Dance (Paris, Van Dieren), a reasoned catalog of the dance baroque, 1700 with 1790. The corpus counts and analyzes more than 500 French parts choreographic, coming from collections dances and treaties, manuscripts or printed, noted according to the system Feuillet. This work is regarded today as the “Bible” of the Danse baroque.

External bond

• Its card on Internet Dance DataBase