The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 411. Fig. 412. of Dionysos is stupid and drunken. The dance is a comic The Satyr, painted on a little skyphos in the Louvre (Fig. 170 RECONSTRUCTION OF TEMPOS AND STEPS 414), expresses equally a joyous surprise at finding a great vaseof wine. By a lateral kick, resembling one of our movements, he manifests his contentment. The right legis extended sidewise, while the left leg,which makes the leap, is in the air. Hedescends upon the right leg to continuethe lateral kick on the left side. 307. In the Russian dance
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 411. Fig. 412. of Dionysos is stupid and drunken. The dance is a comic The Satyr, painted on a little skyphos in the Louvre (Fig. 170 RECONSTRUCTION OF TEMPOS AND STEPS 414), expresses equally a joyous surprise at finding a great vaseof wine. By a lateral kick, resembling one of our movements, he manifests his contentment. The right legis extended sidewise, while the left leg,which makes the leap, is in the air. Hedescends upon the right leg to continuethe lateral kick on the left side. 307. In the Russian dance the crouch-ing pose is used, as it was by the Greeksat all periods of their 415, 416, 417 and 418 are proof ofthis. Fig. 415 is of the sixth centuryB. C, Fig. 416 of the fifth century B. 417 and 418 are taken from a Pom-peiian painting. Figs. 417 and 418 mark the two essential momentsof the Step, which is a leaping movement, and between which would
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