Pavane et Volte

Pavane et Volte was a ballet set to Renaissance music edited by the musicologist Théodore Lajarte and provided with choreography by Laure Fonta of the corps de ballet of the Opéra in Paris. It was performed only once, when it was executed at the Ministry of Public Education in Paris on 11 June 1878 by the members of the Opéra ballet. A pavane was a dance with a name derived from the Latin word for “peacock” (pavo, pavonem). The ladies executing it swept the trains of their dresses behind them…