The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 476. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE STEPS 189 This is much like the effect produced by the two Amazons: com-pare dancer A (Fig. 478) with the dancers who turn by stamping onthe half toe (266), notably Fig. 352, and observe the blowingdrapery at the back and left of the tunic, and it becomes plain thatthe figure is a replica of Amazon A (Fig. 476). Not only are the. fig. 477. costumes of the two groups similar, denoting the Asiatic origin ofboth, but the arrangement and pose arc alike. Dancer B (Fig. 478) executes the slide at the same
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 476. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE STEPS 189 This is much like the effect produced by the two Amazons: com-pare dancer A (Fig. 478) with the dancers who turn by stamping onthe half toe (266), notably Fig. 352, and observe the blowingdrapery at the back and left of the tunic, and it becomes plain thatthe figure is a replica of Amazon A (Fig. 476). Not only are the. fig. 477. costumes of the two groups similar, denoting the Asiatic origin ofboth, but the arrangement and pose arc alike. Dancer B (Fig. 478) executes the slide at the same time onboth feet. An attempt to assign the two dancers to their proper place inthe Bacchic procession:—they dance on each side of the god, tohonor and amuse him. The ceramist has done his best to show aslide on both feet at each end of the line by these two personageswho are on either side of the divinity; this is an artifice of perspec-tive. Figs. 479, 480: Compare with the above (315). 323. The greater number of the persons who execute the danceof the joined hands wear a costume very unlike the Greeks (Figs. 190 RECONSTRUCTION OF TEMPOS AND STEPS
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