The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 275 Fig. 276. inclination of the body in just the pose needed for the Slide, asthough he were about to spring. Of the Slide made simultaneously with the two feet the Step is bestexplained by Figs. 273, 274, 275, 276, 199, A, 399 and 400. 124 TECHNIQUE OF THE DANCE The change of pose is represented by Fig. 273 to much the samepose in Fig. 274, the dancer, whose body is inclined backward, slideson the half-toe on both feet at the same time; the left leg, which is inIV forward in Fig. 273, passes in IV backward in Fig. 274; the.
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 275 Fig. 276. inclination of the body in just the pose needed for the Slide, asthough he were about to spring. Of the Slide made simultaneously with the two feet the Step is bestexplained by Figs. 273, 274, 275, 276, 199, A, 399 and 400. 124 TECHNIQUE OF THE DANCE The change of pose is represented by Fig. 273 to much the samepose in Fig. 274, the dancer, whose body is inclined backward, slideson the half-toe on both feet at the same time; the left leg, which is inIV forward in Fig. 273, passes in IV backward in Fig. 274; the. Fig. 277. movement of the right leg, simultaneously, is inverted. The Satyr(Figs. 275, 276) executes exactly the same movement. 227. As said in another paragraph, it is seldom that a series offigures in successive movements is found in Greek art; one of the fewexamples is shown in Fig. 277. This is a grotesque dance-game, played by four clowns, each ofwhom is, in turn, the victim and the actor: it looks as though thepoint of the game were step on your neighbour. Itis a dance, though but one remove from an absurd bitof mimicry. The two extremes of action are indicated in A-C,for one part, and in B-D for the other. These arevariable instantaneous pictures, analogous to themodern photographs, and are made at four mo-ments,—in pairs,—a unique thing (289). The movement is a Fouette, to the rear, with theleft leg (221). Compare with the series of dancers 248 to 251, andfollow the difference: the dancer in the photographs makes theFouette oblique, IV outward (Fig. 248), in the Position m
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