The ancient dancer in the modern world : responses to Greek and Roman dance / / edited by Fiona Macintosh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812768103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 9780191634383; 0191634387
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xxii, 511 p. : ill. (some col.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MacintoshFiona <1959->
• Disciplina: 792.8
• Soggetti: Modern dance; Theater; Dance - Greece; Dance - Rome
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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'.; V: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.