Orchesography, or, the Art of Dancing / The Art of Dancing by Characters and Demonstrative Figures

by Raoul-Auger Feuillet

Arm

must be to the right, and the left

Arm

to the left.

Both Arms open.	The left Arm open, the right bent at Elbow.
Both arms open.	The right Arm open, and the left quite closed.

I shall not pretend to make a long Disquisition on the Motion of the Arms, but shall only add, that as there are three Movements from the Waste downwards, fo there are also three Movements in the Arms, which have a Correspondence, and are agreeing with them below, viz. that of the Wrist, has Relation to the Heel; that of the Elbow, to the Knee, and that of the Shoulder, or the whole Arm, to the Thigh.

You will know when the Arm moves by an arch’d Line, mark’d C D, drawn from that which represents the end of the Arm, which shews the Figure the Wrist makes in moving, as from C to D.