Aimable Vainqueur, The Dance of the Century
(Kaj Sylegard)
The Aimable Vainqueur was one of the most famous ballroom choreographies of the 18th century, created by L.G. Pécour dancingmaster of the Paris Opéra, and danced for the first time at Marly for Louis XVI in 1701. By the dancingmasters of the period it was praised as an excellent dance in the French noble style of dancing. It was recorded over and over again through the century in the Feuillet/Beauchamps system of dance notation until the Italian dancingmaster G. Magri in 1779 published a new updated version called Amabile.
In the workshop the development of Pécour’s Aimable Vainqueur till Magri’s Amabile will be explored through short comparative excerpts from the different versions recorded through the century.
Kaj Sylegard, Hägersten, Sweden:
Kaj Sylegård is a graduate of the Stockholm Royal Academy of Music and of the University College of Dance in Stockholm. Among his main teachers you find Jane Gingell from London as well as Regina Beck-Friis and Anna-Karin Ståhle from Stockholm. At present he regularly gives lectures and teaches dance at the College of Dance and the Ballet-Academy in Stockholm. He has also lectured and taught as guest teacher at the Royal Swedish Ballet school, and has given lectures about dance music in the baroque period in the Swedish radio.
