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The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World

Responses to Greek and Roman Drama
Cover of 'The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World'. The title is written in red above a photo of Bertram Ross performing as Orestes in Martha Graham's Clytemnestra.
Fiona Macintosh
2010
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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. 

Publisher
Oxford University Press
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  1. Fiona Macintosh, ‘Introduction’ 
  1. Ismene Lada-Richards, ‘Dead but not Extinct: On Reinventing Pantomime Dancing in Eighteenth-Century England and France’ 
  1. Frederick Naerebout, “In Search of a Dead Rat': The Reception of Ancient Greek Dance in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe and America’ 
  1. Ann Cooper-Albright, ‘The Tanagra Effect: Wrapping the Modern Body in the Folds of Ancient Greece’ 
  1. Tyler Jo Smith, ‘Reception or Deception? Approaching Dance through Vase-Painting' 
  1. Kathleen Riley, ‘A Pylades for the twentieth century: Fred Astaire and the Aesthetic of Bodily Eloquence’ 
  1. Ruth Webb, “Where there is Dance there is the Devil': Ancient and Modern Representations of Salome’ 
  1. Edith Hall, “Heroes of the Dance Floor': The Missing Exemplary Male Dancer in the Ancient Sources’ 
  1. Jennifer Thorp, ‘Servile Bodies? The Status of the Professional Dancer in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries’ 
  1. Fiona Macintosh, ‘Dancing Maenads in Early Twentieth-Century Britain’ 
  1.  Barbara Ravelhofer, ‘Ancient Greece, Dance and the English Masque’ 
  1. Pantelis Michelakis, ‘Dancing with Prometheus: Performance and Spectacle in the 1920s’ 
  1. Alessandra Zanobi, ‘From Duncan to Bausch with Iphigenia’ 
  1. Henrietta Bannerman, ‘Ancient Myths and Modern Moves: The Greek-Inspired Dance Theatre of Martha Graham’ 
  1. Nadine Meisner, ‘Iphigenia, Orpheus and Eurydice in the Human Narrative of Pina Bausch’ 
  1. Daniel Albright, ‘Knowing the Dancer, Knowing the Dance: The Dancer as Décor’ 
  1. Sue Jones, ‘Modernism and Dance: Apollonian or Dionysian?’ 
  1. Vanda Zajko, ‘Dance, Psychoanalysis and Modernist Aesthetics: Martha Graham's ‘Night Journey” 
  1. Arabella Stanger, ‘Striking a Balance: The Apolline and Dionysiac in Post-Classical Choreography’ 
  1. Richard Cave, ‘Caryl Churchill and Ian Spink 'allowing the past to speak directly to the present” 
  1. Yana Zarifi, ‘Staniewski's Secret Alphabet of Gestures: Dance, Body and Metaphysics’ 
  1. Struan Leslie, ‘Gesamtkunstwerk: Modern Moves and the Ancient Chorus’ 
  1. Suzy Willson & Helen Eastman, ‘Red Ladies: Who are they and what do they want?’