The ancient dancer in the modern world : responses to Greek and Roman dance

Abstract

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 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 the 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 Decor 16. Modernism and Dance: Apollonian or Dionysian? 17. Dance, Psychoanalysis and Modernist Aesthetics: Martha Graham's 'Night Journey' 18. Striking a Balance: The Apolline and Dionysiac in Post-Classical Choreography 19. Caryl Churchill and Ian Spink 'allowing the past to speak directly to the present' V. 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?

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