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Delsarte

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Del`sarte´
n.1.A system of calisthenics patterned on the theories of FranÇois Delsarte (1811 - 71), a French teacher of dramatic and musical expression.


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Francois Delsarte, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, and Bess Mensendieck encouraged a kind of inside-out expression that questioned the traditional nature of movement training.
In 1973, Philippe Delsarte of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium developed a method for relating the size of the errors that a code can correct to the efficiency of the code--that is, the number of code words it can fit into a given space.
Among the Europeans themselves, the French music teacher Francois Delsarte had started his explorations into body movement (even before Isadora erupted on the scene), extended by the Swiss Emile Jaques-Dalcroze.
 
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