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 |
|