| Summary: | The article aims to explore alternative ways to approach theatrical dance research between the XVIIIth
and the XIXth centuries, despite of the lack of technical manuals published at the time. A special
relationship with the rediscovery of classical antiquity influenced creative processes which are, in
theatrical dance, linked to connoisseurship practice and the perception of classical iconography through
technique, aesthetic and moral values. In addition to Blasis’ unmissable work for dance practice
knowledge in this period (Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse, 1820) the author
gives a glimpse of some understimate works: Théorie du geste (1813) of painter Jacques-Nicolas Paillot
de Montabert, and some exemples of choreographical tools made by Jean Aumer and André Jean-
Jacques Deshayes (1800-1823).
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