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1 online resource (xxii, 511 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Dead but not extinct : on reinventing pantomime dancing in eighteenth-century England and France / Ismene Lada-Richards -- "In search of a dead rat" : Reception of Ancient Greek dance in late nineteenth-century Europe and America / Frederick Naerebout -- 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" : Missing exemplary male dance in ancient sources / Edith Hall -- Servile bodies? : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Modern dance.
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Modern dance. |
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Theater.
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Theater. |
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Dance -- Greece.
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Dance. |
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Greece. |
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Dance -- Rome.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Macintosh, Fiona, 1959-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ancient dancer in the modern world. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780199548101 (DLC) 2010933147 (OCoLC)587229784 |
| ISBN |
9780191634383 (electronic book) |
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0191634387 (electronic book) |
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9780199548101 |
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0199548102 |
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