The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 518. flute: sometimes music is absent. The first dancer of the file makesthe gesture of the veil with her free hand. In Fig. 520 the women grasp one anothers wrists with , they are standing still: the Farandole is reduced to animmobile chain. The Louvre (room XII) possesses a fragment of the frieze ofSamothrace, from a temple built in the fourth century B. C, thestyle being archaisant. This bas-relief, though badly mutilated, 220 CHOREGRAPHY is interesting to the dancer. A long file of women wind along thefrie
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 518. flute: sometimes music is absent. The first dancer of the file makesthe gesture of the veil with her free hand. In Fig. 520 the women grasp one anothers wrists with , they are standing still: the Farandole is reduced to animmobile chain. The Louvre (room XII) possesses a fragment of the frieze ofSamothrace, from a temple built in the fourth century B. C, thestyle being archaisant. This bas-relief, though badly mutilated, 220 CHOREGRAPHY is interesting to the dancer. A long file of women wind along thefrieze, two-by-two, walking on the half-toe, with a good deal ofhip action. There are to be found in the Louvre many bas-reliefs of the de-cadent period, representing chains of dancers; most of them are. Fig. 519. mediocre decorative compositions, without good drawing, and of little interest to the dancer. The same may be said of many in the Museum of Naples. 353. The Ring—The Ring may be defined as a chain composed of dancers, all of whom join hands. The Ring is one of the dances that are instinctive, and it ap-pears on the most ancientmonuments. The vases ofDipylon furnish many Museum of the Louvrepossesses a figurine of clay,one of a series of similar fig-ures, of which the articula-tions of the legs come belowthe robe, which, blown by thewind, closely wraps the fig-ure, defining it. With handshidden, but each clasping that of her neighbor, the women dance in a circle (seventh century B. C). A beautiful Corinthian vase is decorated with parallel rows of dancers. The same subject is used on a vase with black figures, to be seen in the Museum of Corneto, and is reproduced (in Greek Vase Paintings) by Miss Harrison. The Louvre possesses three groups (terra-cotta and limest
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