The Dance of the Ancient Greek Theatre
Title | The Dance of the Ancient Greek Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Lillian Beatrice Lawler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Dance |
ISBN |
The Dance of the Ancient Greek Theatre
Title | The Dance of the Ancient Greek Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Lillian B. Lawler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 135 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Dance |
ISBN |
The Art of Ancient Greek Theater
Title | The Art of Ancient Greek Theater PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Louise Hart |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1606060376 |
An explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art
Attractive Performances
Title | Attractive Performances PDF eBook |
Author | F. G Naerebout |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 471 |
Release | 2023-07-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004674853 |
This book is not another history of the dance in ancient Greece, but wants to lay the groundwork on which such a history should properly be build. The three preliminary studies offered here are, first, an extensive historiography of the subject which seeks to illuminate where we stand at present in reference to the large amount of work done on ancient Greek dance for the past 500 years. Secondly, an exercise in source criticism, embracing both texts and imagery, in order to establish the limits to which we can push any investigation, and thirdly, an attempt at model building to provide an explicit theoretical framework for future research. This is the first time that some of the approaches of the new dance scholarship which has arisen during the past few decades have been systematically applied to the dancing of the ancient world.
Greek Theatre Performance
Title | Greek Theatre Performance PDF eBook |
Author | David Wiles |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2000-05-25 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1316284190 |
In this fascinating and accessible book, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre to students and enthusiasts interested in knowing how the plays were performed. Theatre was a ceremony bound up with fundamental activities in ancient Athenian life and Wiles explores those elements which created the theatre of the time. Actors rather than writers are the book's main concern and Wiles examines how the actor used the resources of story-telling, dance, mask, song and visual action to create a large-scale event that would shape the life of the citizen community. The book assumes no prior knowledge of the ancient world, and is written to answer the questions of those who want to know how the plays were performed, what they meant in their original social context, what they might mean in a modern performance and what can be learned from and achieved by performances of Greek plays today.
The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World
Title | The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona Macintosh |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2012-07-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191634387 |
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.
Attractive Performances
Title | Attractive Performances PDF eBook |
Author | F. G. Naerebout |
Publisher | |
Pages | 554 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
This book is not another history of the dance in ancient Greece, but wants to lay the groundwork on which such a history should properly be build. The three preliminary studies offered here are, first, an extensive historiography of the subject which seeks to illuminate where we stand at present in reference to the large amount of work done on ancient Greek dance for the past 500 years. Secondly, an exercise in source criticism, embracing both texts and imagery, in order to establish the limits to which we can push any investigation, and thirdly, an attempt at model building to provide an explicit theoretical framework for future research. This is the first time that some of the approaches of the new dance scholarship which has arisen during the past few decades have been systematically applied to the dancing of the ancient world.