Tracing The Landscape Of Dance In Greece

Author : Katia Savrami
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527543331

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Tracing the Landscape of Dance in Greece by Katia Savrami Pdf

This volume critically discusses dance’s role as an art form in modern Greek society, exploring both ethnographic and cross-cultural issues. The contents of the book unfold in parallel and intertwining dialogues and discourses incorporating reflections on philosophical and scientific subjects and experiences relating to dance. The investigation places ballet, modern and contemporary dance within the Greek context, and juxtaposes these genres with international dance making. It also uncovers the factors that have affected the development of dance practices in Greece during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and considers the reasons why, until now, dance, as an embodied art form, has not been established in Greece as an autonomous academic discipline with its own sustainable educational structures. It paints a picture of the past and the present, while also serving to inspire future artist-practitioners and scholars to advocate and support the discipline of dance in Greece.

Author : Lynn Frederiksen,Shih-Ming Li Chang
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : Dance
ISBN : 9781492572329

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Dance Cultures Around the World by Lynn Frederiksen,Shih-Ming Li Chang Pdf

"Textbook for undergrad general education and dance courses on the topic of dance around the world. It serves as a gateway into studying world cultures through dance"--

Author : Eleanor Elder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Dance
ISBN : NYPL:33433012386847

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Dance, a National Art by Eleanor Elder Pdf

Author : Lillian Beatrice Lawler
Publisher : Wesleyan
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Dance
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037029688

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The Dance in Ancient Greece by Lillian Beatrice Lawler Pdf

This volume presents an academic yet non-technical introduction and overview of ancient Greek dance. Dance was very important to the ancient Greeks, associated with music, verse, and the theatre. Processions, games, and performances involving dance were popular and widespread in Greek culture. Lawler lists seven types of sources for her work: literary, metrical, musical, archaeological, epigraphical, linguistic, and anthropological, and explores the forms, occasions, and participants involved with ancient Greek dances. Literary sources are numerous and rich and Lawler suggests reading them will give more insights into ancient Greek dance. Metrical sources include actual treatises on metrics as well as actual lines of verse used for dance. Much of the metrical material is fragmentary, while musical sources include discussions of music by writers as well as mostly fragmentary musical remains.

Author : Amy J. Maitland Gardner,Carl Walsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350277014

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Tracing Gestures by Amy J. Maitland Gardner,Carl Walsh Pdf

This volume examines the role of gestures in past societies, exploring both how meaning was communicated through bodily actions, and also how archaeologists can trace the symbolism and significance of ancient gestures, ritual practices and bodily techniques through the material remnants of past human groups. Gesture studies is an area of increasing interest within the social sciences, and the individual chapters not only respond to developments in the field, but push it forward by bringing a wide range of perspectives and approaches into dialogue with one another. Each exhibits a critical and reflexive approach to bodily communication and to re-tracing bodies through the archaeological record (in art, the treatment of the body and material culture), and together they demonstrate the diversity of pioneering global research on gestures in archaeology and related disciplines, with contributions from leading researchers in Aegean, Mediterranean, Mesoamerican, Japanese and Near Eastern archaeology. By bringing case studies from each of these different cultures and regions together and drawing on interdisciplinary insights from anthropology, sociology, psychology, linguistics, design, art history and the performing arts, this volume reveals the similarities and differences in gestures as expressed in cultures around the world, and offers new and valuable perspectives on the nature of bodily communication across both space and time.

Author : David Braund,Edith Hall,Rosie Wyles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107170599

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Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture around the Black Sea by David Braund,Edith Hall,Rosie Wyles Pdf

Presents a landmark study combining key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars, from a wide range of disciplines.

Author : Jean-Francois Lejeune,Michelangelo Sabatino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135250270

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Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean by Jean-Francois Lejeune,Michelangelo Sabatino Pdf

Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.

Author : Stavros Stavrou Karayanni
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780889209268

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Dancing Fear and Desire by Stavros Stavrou Karayanni Pdf

Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals, evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and revulsion. This profound ambivalence forms the axis of an investigation into Middle Eastern dance—an investigation that extends to contemporary belly dance. Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, through historical investigation, theoretical analysis, and personal reflection, explores how Middle Eastern dance actively engages race, sex, and national identity. Close readings of colonial travel narratives, an examination of Oscar Wilde’s Salome, and analyses of treatises about Greek dance, reveal the intricate ways in which this controversial dance has been shaped by Eurocentric models that define and control identity performance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39015086757534

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The Humboldt Library of Popular Science Literature ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Isadora Duncan
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338033901

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My Life by Isadora Duncan Pdf

This autobiography chronicles the life and groundbreaking artistry of Angela Isadora Duncan, an influential American dancer and choreographer. From her humble beginnings in San Francisco to her rise to fame in Western Europe and the United States, Duncan revolutionized contemporary dance with her unique vision and improvisational style. As she traveled the world, she drew inspiration from Greek art and captivated audiences with her mesmerizing performances. This intimate memoir unveils the triumphs, struggles, and extraordinary spirit of a true pioneer.

Author : Katia Savrami
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443860901

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Ancient Dramatic Chorus through the Eyes of a Modern Choreographer by Katia Savrami Pdf

This book critically analyses the work of Zouzou Nikoloudi, a major Greek choreographer (1917–2004), and the way she presented, with her company Chorica, the choral odes of ancient Greek drama, especially tragedy. It also sheds light on the theoretical underpinnings of Nikoloudi’s choreographic work, the result of her own research on this central problem in contemporary performances of ancient Greek drama, particularly the manner in which the ancient Greek chorus may be revived. More specifically, the book provides answers to several key questions concerning Nikoloudi’s work, namely: What were her views about ancient dramatic art and how were they influenced by the School of Koula Pratsika and Expressionist Dance? Which elements from her own training did she apply to her teaching method for actors and dancers and to what extent do these elements correspond to our existing knowledge about ancient Greek tragic drama? How did she integrate her embodied experiences and aesthetics into praxis while choreographing with her company? The book examines the work of Nikoloudi in relation to ancient Greek views of tragedy and the ways in which those views have been reinterpreted in contemporary dance practice, thus elucidating both the work of a distinguished twentieth-century Greek choreographer and our understanding of classical Greek aesthetic theories.

Author : Margaret West Kinney,Troy Kinney
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547052159

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The Dance: Its Place in Art and Life by Margaret West Kinney,Troy Kinney Pdf

"The Dance" by Margaret West Kinney is a book about dance as a form of art. The writing includes a chapter of explanation of the salient steps of the ballet. These steps, with superficial variations and additions, form the basis also of all-natural or "character" dances that can lay claim to any consideration as interpretative art. Direct practical instruction is furnished on the subject of present-day ballroom dancing, to the extent of clear and exact directions for the performance of steps now fashionable in Europe and America. Some notable titles are: The "Schuhplatteltanz" Classic Ballet Positions Fundamental Positions of the Feet The "Tango" Development of an Arch "À La Pirouette", etc.

Author : Bissera V
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271035840

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The sensual icon by Bissera V Pdf

"Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearances expressed in poetry, descriptions of art, and liturgical performance"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Christian Adofo
Publisher : Jacaranda Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 1913090515

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A Quick Ting On: Afrobeats by Christian Adofo Pdf

Cultural commentator Christian Adofo chronicles the rich social history of Afrobeats in the first ever book on the genre that is taking over the globe.

Author : Alex R. Knodell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520380530

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Societies in Transition in Early Greece by Alex R. Knodell Pdf

Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of Mycenaean civilization to the emergence of city-states in the Archaic period. These centuries saw the growth and decline of varied political systems and the development of networks across local, regional, and Mediterranean scales. As a groundbreaking study of landscape, interaction, and sociopolitical change, Societies in Transition in Early Greece systematically bridges the divide between the Mycenaean period and the Archaic Greek world to shed new light on an often-overlooked period of world history. “This book reconfigures our understanding of early Greece on a regional level, beyond Mycenaean 'palaces' and across temporal boundaries. Alex Knodell's sophisticated arguments enable a fresh reading of the emergence of early Greek polities, revealing the microregions that put to the test overarching 'Mediterranean' models. His detailed study makes a convincing return to a comparative framework, integrating a 'small world' network and its trajectory with the larger picture of ancient complex societies.” SARAH MORRIS, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture, University of California, Los Angeles “A comprehensive, thoughtful treatment of the time period before the crystallization of the ancient Greek city states.” WILLIAM A. PARKINSON, Curator and Professor, The Field Museum and University of Illinois at Chicago “An important and must-read account. The strength of this book lies in its close analysis of the important different regional characteristics and evolutionary trajectories of Greece as it transforms into the Archaic and, later, the Classical world.” DAVID B. SMALL, author Ancient Greece: Social Structure and Evolution.