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Title: THE ANCIENT DANCER IN THE MODERN WORLD
RESPONSES TO GREEK AND ROMAN DANCE
By: Fiona M. Macintosh (Editor)
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0199548102
ISBN 13: 9780199548101
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 2 September, 2010
Pages: 536
Description: 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.
Synopsis: When the eighteenth-century choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre sought to develop what is now known as modern ballet, he turned to ancient pantomime as his source of inspiration; and when Isadora Duncan and her contemporaries looked for alternatives to the strictures of classical ballet, they looked to ancient Greek vases for models for what they termed 'natural' movement. This is the first book to examine systematically the long history of the impact of ideas about ancient Greek and Roman dance on modern theatrical and choreographic practices. With contributions from eminent classical scholars, dance historians, theatre specialists, modern literary critics, and art historians, as well as from contemporary practitioners, it offers a very wide conspectus on an under-explored but central aspect of classical reception, dance and theatre history, and the history of ideas.
Illustrations: 49 in-text illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
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