The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . ovements in which the dancer usesher tunic during the dance. The ceramic paint-ers made a study of whirling drapery, thoughthey represented it by means of certain conven-tions (Figs. 346, 347, 348, 349, 357, etc.). Fig. 453: This somewhat lackadaisical personwho is enveloped in a mantle, poses on her half-toe, left hand held low and back, right hand underthe mantle. She executes the Balance Step (233,234) with the body bending alternately to theright and left, depending upon which leg carriesthe weight. Fig. 454: one arm extended
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . ovements in which the dancer usesher tunic during the dance. The ceramic paint-ers made a study of whirling drapery, thoughthey represented it by means of certain conven-tions (Figs. 346, 347, 348, 349, 357, etc.). Fig. 453: This somewhat lackadaisical personwho is enveloped in a mantle, poses on her half-toe, left hand held low and back, right hand underthe mantle. She executes the Balance Step (233,234) with the body bending alternately to theright and left, depending upon which leg carriesthe weight. Fig. 454: one arm extended forward,enveloped in the mantle. Fig. 455 : much the same, except thatan animals skin replaces the 362, 363, 364, 365, and othersshow similar gestures with the The Veil Dancers of Pompeii.—These are airy figures who grace-fully fling their veils to the breeze, andwho are not bound by the law of equili-brium : this is the one liberty that theFig. 449. artists have taken, and it detracts somewhat from the value of the
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