LEADER 04089nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910812768103321 005 20240516002816.0 010 0 $a9780191634383 010 0 $a0191634387 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7034264 035 $a(CKB)24235076800041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3054510 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3054510 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10524962 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL342280 035 $a(OCoLC)773827975 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235076800041 100 $a20100722d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe ancient dancer in the modern world $eresponses to Greek and Roman dance /$fedited by Fiona Macintosh 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2010 215 $axxii, 511 p. $cill. (some col.) 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $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'. 327 $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. 330 $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. 606 $aModern dance 606 $aTheater 606 $aDance$zGreece 606 $aDance$zRome 615 0$aModern dance. 615 0$aTheater. 615 0$aDance 615 0$aDance 676 $a792.8 701 $aMacintosh$b Fiona$f1959-$01614634 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812768103321 996 $aThe ancient dancer in the modern world$93944512 997 $aUNINA