Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
The "new" French Gardens: de Broderie
The "new" French Dances: Arabesques in, Geometry out

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The garden broderie shapes are copied in minuets of the "new" French choreographies. The dancers of these minuets follow "S" shapes, and more complex interweavings, but effectively, the choreography is an image of the parterres en broderie found in the new garden designs.

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