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OF VOLUME TEN
PAGE INTRODUCTION BY ANNA PAVLOWA vii
AEsthetic basis of the dance; national character expressed in dances; 'survival value' of dancing; primitive dance and sexual selection; professionalism in dancing--Music and the dance; religion and the dance; historic analysis of folk-dancing and ballet.
Earliest Egyptian records of dancing; hieroglyphic evidence; the Astral dance; Egyptian court and temple rituals; festival of the Sacred Bull--Music of the Egyptian dances; Egyptian dance technique; points of similarity between Egyptian and modern dancing; Hawasis and Almeiis; the Graveyard Dance; modern imitations.
Lack of art sense among the Hindoos; dancing and the Brahmin religion; the Apsarazases, Bayaderes and Devadazis; Hindoo music and the dance; dancing in modern India; Fakir dances; philosophic symbolism of the Indian dance.
Influence of the Chinese moral teachings; general characteristics of Chinese dancing; court and social dances of ancient China; Yu-Vang's 'historical ballet'; modern Chinese dancing; dancing Mandarins; modern imitations; the Lantern Festival--Japan: the legend of Amaterasu; emotional variety of the Japanese dance; pantomime and mimicry; general characteristics and classification of Japanese dances--The American Indians: The Dream dance; the Ghost dance; the Snake dance.
Biblical allusions; sacred dances; the Salome episode and its modern influence--The Arabs; Moorish florescence in the Middle Ages; characteristics of the Moorish dances; the dance in daily life; the harem, the Dance of Greeting; pictorial quality of the Arab dances.
Homeric testimony; importance of the dance in Greek life; Xenophon's description; Greek religion and the dance; Terpsichore--Dancing of youths, educational value; Greek dance music; Hyporchema and Saltation; Gymnopoedia; the Pyrrhic dance; the Dipoda and the Babasis; the Emmeleia; The Cordax; the Hormos--Greek theatres; comparison of periods; the Eleusinian mysteries; the Dionysian mysteries; the Heterae; technique.
The mediaeval eclipse; ecclesiastical dancing in Spain; the strolling ballets of Spain and Italy; suppression of dancing by the church; dances of the mediaeval nobility; Renaissance court ballets; the English masques; famous masques of the seventeenth century.
Aims and tendencies of the nineteenth century--Maria Taglioni--Fanny Elssler--Carlotta Grisi and Fanny Cerito; decadence of the classic ballet.
The Danish ballet and Boumoville's reform; Lucile Grahn, Augusta Nielsen, etc.--Mrs. Elna J?rgen-Jensen; Adeline Gen?e; the mission of the Danish ballet.
Nineteenth-century decadence; sensationalism--Loie Fuller and the Serpentine Dance--Louise Weber, Lottie Collins and others.
The 'return to nature'; Isadora Duncan--Duncan's influence: Maud Allan; Duncan's German followers--Modern music and the dance; the Russian naturalists; Gli?re's 'Chrisis'-- Pictorial nationalism: Ruth St. Denis--Modern Spanish dancers; ramifications of the naturalistic idea.
Jacques-Dalcroze and his creed; essentials of the 'Eurhythmic' system--Body-rhythm; the plastic expression of musical ideas; merits and shortcomings of the Dalcroze system--Speculation on the value of Eurhythmics to the dance.
The defects of the new Russian and other modern schools; the new ideals; Prince Volkhonsky's theories--Lada and choreographic symbolism--The question of appropriate music.
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