Textiles in Motion : Dress for Dance in the Ancient World

• Autore: Gouy Audrey
• Pubblicazione: Havertown : , : Oxbow Books, Limited, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 pages)
• Disciplina: 677.00901
• Soggetto topico: Design / Textile & Costume; Social Science / Archaeology; History / Ancient; Social sciences
• Persona (resp. second.): GouyAudrey
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Scientific committee -- List of contributors -- Introduction (Audrey Gouy) -- Part 1: Practicalities -- 1. Practical perspectives on dance and clothing -- Part 2: Movement and design -- 2. Dancing in flames - fabulous designs from the desert sands. Reconstructing the east Central Asian skirt's construction secret -- 3. The whirling dance of Baukis: reinterpreting our sources -- 4. Dance and metatheatre in Menander's Theophoroumene -- Part 3: Embodiment and communication -- 5. The unhellenic attire of choruses as image of the 'other' in ancient Greek tragedy -- 6. The dress of the dancing lares -- 7. Dance and clothing in ancient Egypt ‒ the earliest evidence -- Part 4: Cognition and sensory experience -- 8. Soft cloth and sounding jewellery - sound fields of rich women in Eastern Hallstatt culture -- 9. Flowing white dresses for dancing initiates in the Mysteries of Eleusis -- 10. Fashioning sensescapes through ancient Egyptian dance -- Part 5: Images and metaphors -- 11. Dancing around the goddess' dress -- 12. 'Wearing' tattoos in ancient Egypt. Evidence from Middle Kingdom mummies and feminine figurines -- Part 6: Modern reception -- 13. Egyptologist dancers - re-enacting 'ancient Egyptian' dances at the beginning of the 20th century.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume explores the significance, role, and meaning of textiles and dress in dance, integrating anthropological and sociological dimension into historical analysis of textiles in the ancient world.
• Altri titoli varianti: Textiles in Motion
• Titolo autorizzato: Textiles in Motion
• ISBN: 9798888570937; 9781789257991; 1789257999
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910856972803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II