The ancient dancer in the modern world responses to Greek and Roman dance edited by Fiona Macintosh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dead but not extinct :on reinventing pantomime dancing in eighteenth-century England and France / Ismene Lada-Richards --"In search of a dead rat" :the reception of Ancient Greek dance in late nineteenth-century Europe and America /Frederick Naerebout --The Tanagra effect :wrapping the modern body in the folds of Ancient Greece /Ann Cooper Albright --Reception or deception? :approaching Greek dance through vase-painting /Tyler Jo Smith --A pylades for the twentieth century :Fred Astaire and the aesthetic of bodily eloquence /Kathleen Riley --"Where there is dance there is the Devil" :ancient and modern representations of Salome /Ruth Webb --"Heroes of the dance floor" :the missing exemplary male dance in ancient sources /Edith Hall --Servile bodies? :the status of the professional dancer in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries /Jennifer Thorp -- Dancing Maenads in early twentieth-century Britain /Fiona Macintosh --Ancient Greece, dance, and the English masque /Barbara Ravelhofer --Dancing with Prometheus :performance and spectacle in the 1920s /Pantelis Michelakis --From Duncan to Bausch with Iphigenia /Alessandra Zanobi --Ancient myths and modern moves :he Greek-inspired dance theatre of Martha Graham /Henrietta Bannerman --Iphigenia, Orpheus, and Eurydice in the Human Narrative of Pina Bausch /Nadine Meisner --Knowing the dancer, knowing the dance :the dancer as decor /Daniel Albright --Modernism and dance :Apolline of Dionysiac? /Susan Jones --Dance, psychoanalysis, and modernist aesthetics :Martha Graham's Night Journey /Vanda Zajko --Striking a balance :the Apolline and Dionysiac in contemporary classical choreography /Arabella Stanger --Caryl Churchill and Ian Spink :"Allowing the past--to speak directly to the present" /Richard Cave --Staniewski's secret alphabet of gestures :dance, body, and metaphysics /Yana Zarifi --Gesamtkunstwerk :modern moves and the ancient chorus /Struan Leslie --Red Ladies :who are they and what do they want? /Suzy Willson, and Helen Eastman.