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Thoinot Arbeau (born March 17, 1520, Dijon, Fr.—died July 23, 1595, Langres) was a theoretician and historian of the dance, whose Orchésographie (1588).
Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of French cleric Jehan Tabourot.

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Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of Jehan Tabourot (17th March 1520-23rd July 1595), a Catholic priest, a canon of Langres, and a theoretician and historian of the dance.

A dance manuscript written by Tabourot was published in 1588, and reprinted in 1589 and 1596. This manual, Orchésographie (Orchesography), contains detailed instructions for numerous styles of dance (branle, galliard, pavane, tourdion), as well as short sections about military music, drumming, and marching, and a few details about dance forms such as the Morisco (whence, according to some accounts, the English Morris dance), the Canary (reputed to be from the Canary Islands), the Allemande, Courante, and Basse danse.

Orchésographie is a major source of information about Renaissance dance. It is available online in facsimile and in plain text, and there is an English translation by Mary Stewart Evans, edited by Julia Sutton, in print from Dover Publications. It contains numerous woodcuts of dancing and musicians, and also includes many dance tabulations in which extensive instructions for th

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Arbeau, Thoinot

1520–1595

Cleric
Dance theorist

A Cleric.

Thoinot Arbeau was born Jehan Thauburot in 1520 in Dijon, once a center of fifteenth-century Burgundian court life. He received his schooling in Dijon and Poitiers and may have also attended the University of Paris. He took a degree in law before entering holy orders. By 1542, he became treasurer of the chapter house at Langres, and five years later was named a cathedral canon. He held a number of important church positions throughout his life, rising to the post of vicar-general, an important diocesan office. Late in life he wrote his dance treatise, Orchesography, a work that provides a vital glimpse of the styles of dance practiced in late sixteenth-century France, and which subscribes to the prevalent Neoplatonic notion about the importance of dance as a reflection of the cosmos.

Tone.

Arbeau's dance manual was the only such work to appear in France in the late sixteenth century, although works of this kind were relatively common in Italy. It is a text comparable to the works of Fabrizio Caroso and Cesare Neg

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Noon Edition

The most important dance instruction manual published in France during the latter half of the 16th Century holds a number of distinctions. For one, it is alone. There are no others. And because it’s unusually detailed, the manual provides a wealth of information for scholars and performers wanting to further their understanding of Renaissance dance and etiquette.

Initially published in 1589 at Langres and entitled "Orchésographie," the manual was written by Jehan Tabourot, a French cleric. And like many a writer, Tabourot went by a pseudonym, Thoinot Arbeau, which was an anagram of his real name. He is commonly referred to as Arbeau.

The book is written in the form of a dialogue between Arbeau, the master, and Capriole, the student. Their lively conversation pervades the entire work and helps to instruct the reader on the many subtleties of the so-called “manly art” of dancing with a partner.

Courtship

Towards the beginning of the manual, Arbeau stresses the importance of gentlemen learning how to dance both for health benefits and fo