The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . amic paintings. Itfollows that similar representa-tions are often simple decora-tions which add nothing to ourknowledge of these persons. The writers do not distin-guish between the two kinds ofPyrrhic, but their descriptionsinform us that the dance wassometimes given by a number ofperformers and sometimes byonly one. The figures of thePyrrhic en masse were made up of rhythmic evolutions, complexstudies, which excluded the more violent and prolonged individualmovements: the solo Pyrrhic was an exercise of a mimetic type, madeup of
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . amic paintings. Itfollows that similar representa-tions are often simple decora-tions which add nothing to ourknowledge of these persons. The writers do not distin-guish between the two kinds ofPyrrhic, but their descriptionsinform us that the dance wassometimes given by a number ofperformers and sometimes byonly one. The figures of thePyrrhic en masse were made up of rhythmic evolutions, complexstudies, which excluded the more violent and prolonged individualmovements: the solo Pyrrhic was an exercise of a mimetic type, madeup of running Steps, leaps, Steps in retreat, whirling Steps, crouch-ings, movements of the arms in infinite variety,—in a word, all theartifices of both dancing and wrestling. It is better to separate the Pyrrhics from the armed men takenfrom the vases and reliefs. 359. Pyrrhic for One.—The musician who plays on the doubleflute, beside the Pyrrhic dancer, proves that the exercise reallywas a dance. Fig. 531—a youth turns in IV crossed, or, to be more exact,. Fig. 531. 228 CHOREGRAPHY executes a movement turning from the head, with the left foot as a pivot. Fig. 532: the warrior, lacedin a tightly-fitting costume,turns his head to the side, whilethe whole body swings to theleft, the right hand holding alance ready to strike. Fig. 533: the young Pyrrhicdancer, who stands on a sort of
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