The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . -. Tobe exact, it should be noted that the Greek dancer does not execute the Grand Battement in IV outward, butrather, a Grand Battement in II. Themechanism of the movements much The vase from which Figs. 219and 220 are taken is a psytere in theLouvre, and was used to cool wine, beingsurrounded with ice (plate I). The fig-ures are in red on a black ground, and isincised, a process usually ascribed to alater date than the beginning of the fifthcentury B. C. It is a moment of transi-tion, just before the return to the
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . -. Tobe exact, it should be noted that the Greek dancer does not execute the Grand Battement in IV outward, butrather, a Grand Battement in II. Themechanism of the movements much The vase from which Figs. 219and 220 are taken is a psytere in theLouvre, and was used to cool wine, beingsurrounded with ice (plate I). The fig-ures are in red on a black ground, and isincised, a process usually ascribed to alater date than the beginning of the fifthcentury B. C. It is a moment of transi-tion, just before the return to the moreancient technique, as spoken of in detail in paragraph 9. Fig. 219 represents the legs of the dancer 5 in plate I: , those of the dancer 2. By an artifice most simple and not un-natural, the dancers are shown in the copy in such arrangementthat they are opposite one another. 191. Circles with the Legs.—These are related to the differ in the form of the figure defined on tlw ground or m. Fig. 221. 104. TECHNIQUE OF THE DANCE space. In the Circle of the Leg, the figure is a circle more or lessregular. Following the direction of the rotation, the Circle is outwardor inward. To fix this in the pupils mind, assume that the activeleg is in the II on the toe (Fig. 221, 1). The circle is made by commencing the rotation by advancing (, 2). Like the Battements, the Circles of the Leg are in three forms,—on the ground, held, and Grand Circle.
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