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The ancient dancer in the modern world : responses to Greek and Roman dance /
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 an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.