Example 18. Three illustrations of the Z-figure in eighteenth-century dance treatises

(a) Z-figure in Rameau’s Le Maître a Danser (1725, 85)

(b) Z-figure in Tomlinson’s The Art of Dancing Explained by Reading and Figures (1735, 120)

(c) Z-figure in Feldtenstein ’s Erweiterung der Kunst nach der Chorographie zu tanzen (1772, 67)