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Title The ancient dancer in the modern world : responses to Greek and Roman dance / edited by Fiona Macintosh
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 511 pages) : illustrations
Contents Dead but not extinct : on reinventing pantomime dancing in eighteenth-century England and France / Ismene Lada-Richards -- "In search of a dead rat" : the reception of Ancient Greek dance in late nineteenth-century Europe and America / Frederick Naerebout -- The Tanagra effect : wrapping the modern body in the folds of Ancient Greece / Ann Cooper Albright -- Reception or deception? : approaching Greek dance through vase-painting / Tyler Jo Smith -- A pylades for the twentieth century : Fred Astaire and the aesthetic of bodily eloquence / Kathleen Riley -- "Where there is dance there is the Devil" : ancient and modern representations of Salome / Ruth Webb -- "Heroes of the dance floor" : the missing exemplary male dance in ancient sources / Edith Hall -- Servile bodies? : the status of the professional dancer in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Jennifer Thorp -- Dancing Maenads in early twentieth-century Britain / Fiona Macintosh -- Ancient Greece, dance, and the English masque / Barbara Ravelhofer -- Dancing with Prometheus : performance and spectacle in the 1920s / Pantelis Michelakis -- From Duncan to Bausch with Iphigenia / Alessandra Zanobi -- Ancient myths and modern moves : the Greek-inspired dance theatre of Martha Graham / Henrietta Bannerman -- Iphigenia, Orpheus, and Eurydice in the Human Narrative of Pina Bausch / Nadine Meisner -- Knowing the dancer, knowing the dance : the dancer as décor / Daniel Albright -- Modernism and dance : Apolline of Dionysiac? / Susan Jones -- Dance, psychoanalysis, and modernist aesthetics : Martha Graham's Night Journey / Vanda Zajko -- Striking a balance : the Apolline and Dionysiac in contemporary classical choreography / Arabella Stanger -- Caryl Churchill and Ian Spink : "Allowing the past-- to speak directly to the present" / Richard Cave -- Staniewski's secret alphabet of gestures : dance, body, and metaphysics / Yana Zarifi -- Gesamtkunstwerk : modern moves and the ancient chorus / Struan Leslie -- Red Ladies : who are they and what do they want? / Suzy Willson, and Helen Eastman
Summary The first systematic study of the impact of ideas about ancient Greek and Roman dance on modern theatrical and choreographic practices. With contributions from experts in a range of fields, the volume presents a wide conspectus on an under-explored but central aspect of classical reception, dance and theatre history, and the history of ideas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Modern dance.
Theater.
Dance -- Greece
Dance -- Rome
theater (discipline)
PERFORMING ARTS -- Dance -- Classical & Ballet.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Dance -- Modern.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Dance -- Reference.
Dance
Modern dance
Theater
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Form Electronic book
Author Macintosh, Fiona, 1959-
LC no. 2010933147
ISBN 9780191634383
0191634387
1283422808
9781283422802
9786613422804
6613422800