François de Lauze

François de Lauze (* between 1585 and 1590 in Fleurance , Gascogne , France , † after 1641 probably in France) was a French dance teacher at the beginning of the 17th century.

Life

Nothing is known about de Lauze's training and his first occupations. It is believed that he received commercial and medical training and was a skilled dancer. He is mentioned for the first time in Paris in 1610 as an accountant who lived with the court usher Jean Deba, who worked at the Châtelet and lived on rue du Bouloir . He married his daughter on July 4, 1610. The couple then settled in the Rue du Coqheron with the musical instrument player Ancelot Dingue.

It was not until ten years later, at the beginning of the 1620s, that de Lauze was mentioned in London when he made a name for himself as a dance master there. He teamed up with another French dance master Barthélémy de Montagut , who later published de Lauze's writings as plagiarism. He tried to be part of the admirers of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham , who was the favorite of the English King James I (England) . In 1623 his Apologie de la danse at la parfaicte méthode de l'enseigner tant aux Cavaliers qu'au Dames was published. Despite this book, he obviously could not establish himself at the English royal court. Other dance masters from France who saw their professional future in England at the same time also contributed to this.

The further life of de Lauze, like his youth and development, is in the dark.

publication

• Apologie de la danse et la parfaicte méthode d l'enseigner tant aux Cavaliers qu'aux Dames , 1623. Reprint: Minkoff, Geneva 1977.

literature

• Edited, translated, introduced and annotated by Joan Wild Blood, music transcribed by Eduardo M. Torner: Apology de la danse: A Treatise of Instruction in Dancing and Deportment given in the original French .. . Frederick Muller Ltd. London 1952.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dancing to train the taste in FAZ from August 28, 2013, page N3