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100 1 _aMacintosh, Fiona.
245 1 4 _aThe Ancient Dancer in the Modern World :
_bResponses to Greek and Roman Dance.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press, Incorporated,
_c2010.
264 4 _c©2010.
300 _a1 online resource (534 pages)
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505 0 _aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the text -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- List of Dances Discussed in this volume with Première Dates -- Introduction -- I: DANCE AND THE ANCIENT SOURCES -- 1. Dead but not Extinct: On Reinventing Pantomime Dancing in Eighteenth-Century England and France -- 2. 'In Search of a Dead Rat': The Reception of Ancient Greek Dance in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe and America -- 3. The Tanagra Effect: Wrapping the Modern Body in the Folds of Ancient Greece -- 4. Reception or Deception? Approaching Greek Dance through Vase-Painting -- 5. A Pylades for the twentieth century: Fred Astaire and the aesthetic of bodily eloquence -- II: DANCE AND DECADENCE -- 6. 'Where there is Dance there is the Devil': Ancient and Modern Representations of Salome -- 7. 'Heroes of the Dance Floor': The Missing Exemplary Male Dancer in Ancient Sources -- 8. Servile bodies? The Status of the Professional Dancer in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries -- 9. Dancing Maenads in Early Twentieth-Century Britain -- III: DANCE AND MYTH -- 10. Ancient Greece, Dance, and the English Masque -- 11. Dancing with Prometheus: Performance and Spectacle in the 1920s -- 12. From Duncan to Bausch with Iphigenia -- 13. Ancient Myths and Modern Moves: The Greek-Inspired Dance Theatre of Martha Graham -- 14. Iphigenia, Orpheus, and Eurydice in the Human Narrative of Pina Bausch -- IV: ANCIENT DANCE AND THE MODERN MIND -- 15. Knowing the Dancer, Knowing the Dance: The Dancer as Décor -- 16. Modernism and Dance: Apolline or Dionysiac? -- 17. Dance, Psychoanalysis, and Modernist Aesthetics: Martha Graham's Night Journey -- 18. Striking a Balance: The Apolline and Dionysiac in Contemporary Classical Choreography -- 19. Caryl Churchill and Ian Spink: 'Allowing the past . . . to speak directly to the present'.
505 8 _aV: THE ANCIENT CHORUS IN CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE -- 20. Staniewski's Secret Alphabet of Gestures: Dance, Body, and Metaphysics -- 21. Gesamtkunstwerk: Modern Moves and the Ancient Chorus -- 22. Red Ladies: Who are they and What do they Want? -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
520 _aThe 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aModern dance.
650 0 _aTheater.
650 0 _aDance -- Greece.
650 0 _aDance -- Rome.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aMacintosh, Fiona
_tThe Ancient Dancer in the Modern World
_dOxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2010
_z9780199548101
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
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