The primary head motions consist of:
Face straight forward, | |
Face turned to the left, looking over left shoulder, | |
Face turned to the right, looking over right shoulder, | |
Leaning head down on left shoulder, | |
Leaning head down on right shoulder, | |
Stretching neck and head forward, no shoulder motions, | |
Hat, |
A further addition to Feuillet choreography that consists of a "half moon" symbol at the end of the arm, which represents the hand that takes off or puts on the hat. Examples of arm/hat motions include:
Raising the arm as high as the head, | |
Lower arm to be in-line with shoulder, | |
Stretch arm forward, back, then forward: the Arlequin Salutation, | |
Raising arm, turning wrist to put on hat, | |
Turn arm around shoulder, |
All these motions are written showing musical measures and lines of liason. Thus if the choreography had to be extended in some other way (such as the "dactyologia" 2 of Hindu dance, or use of ankle bells with ankle motions in Hindue dance), new additions to Feuillet choreographic notation could easily be created.
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