The ancient dancer in the modern world responses to Greek and Roman dance
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Oxford ; New York
Oxford University Press
2010
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Table of 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 :he 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 decor /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.
