The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 417. Fig. 418. many (157, 165). This pose is used in the Greek dance in all kindsof Steps. With each century that passed it becamemore exaggerated. In the Alexandrian bas-reliefs,the Greco-Roman work, the plaques of terra-cotta,and the cameos of the imperial period, the type ismore and more accented. It must have originated,like most of the exaggerated movements, in the Bac-chic dances, although, before the third century B. was not a part of the Dionysian dances. The backward bend of the torso is often accom-panied by ba
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 417. Fig. 418. many (157, 165). This pose is used in the Greek dance in all kindsof Steps. With each century that passed it becamemore exaggerated. In the Alexandrian bas-reliefs,the Greco-Roman work, the plaques of terra-cotta,and the cameos of the imperial period, the type ismore and more accented. It must have originated,like most of the exaggerated movements, in the Bac-chic dances, although, before the third century B. was not a part of the Dionysian dances. The backward bend of the torso is often accom-panied by backward bending Head. Sometimes, toget the contrast, the Head is posed forward (158)with a backward bending Torso (Fig. 199, C). In some of the dances the backward bend is used at intervals,and in some it is maintained all through the Fig. 419. 172 RECONSTRUCTION OF TEMPOS AND STEPS
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