The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World: Responses to Greek and Roman Dance by Fiona Macintosh

The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World: Responses to Greek and Roman Dance

Fiona Macintosh

480 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

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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 alternative...

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