The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 402. Fig. 403. 299. These explanations of the mechanism of the Steps, takenfrom the Greek paintings and r^ reliefs, sufficiently indicatethe likeness of their Steps toours. The Greek dancers weremore often contented with arudimentary dance whichconsisted of marking time inplace, and withdrawing theleg by bending the knee orlifting the hip. The move-ments were most simple, andwere, without exception, ex-aggerations of the walk orthe run. These are the primitive dances the world over. The alternating movement shown in Fig. 101
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 402. Fig. 403. 299. These explanations of the mechanism of the Steps, takenfrom the Greek paintings and r^ reliefs, sufficiently indicatethe likeness of their Steps toours. The Greek dancers weremore often contented with arudimentary dance whichconsisted of marking time inplace, and withdrawing theleg by bending the knee orlifting the hip. The move-ments were most simple, andwere, without exception, ex-aggerations of the walk orthe run. These are the primitive dances the world over. The alternating movement shown in Fig. 101 is a leap from oneleg to the other, of which these two figures show the essential moments. 300. Knees Flexed: From AntiqueVases.—There is one general remarkto be made concerning Figs. 128,401, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, etc.,which is also applicable to a great number of these dancing figures. The ceramic painters, down to theend of the sixth century B. C. seldomrepresented the dancer at the moment when, by a leap, he was sus-pended above the ground (69, 72) ;
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