The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 589. Fig. 590. above the head in a special form of the dance of the joined hands(319, 322). In the numerous forms of the character-dances, themovements arc varied and many in number. The hicrodulc does notalways conform to the customs of the dance, but the divergence isslight, and there is noneof the unnatural move-ment that characterizesthe other dances withjoined hands. The series of dancerswho wear the kalothos isan ensemble most valu-able in the study of thehomogeneity of thedance; the absence of the gymnastic forms dear
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . Fig. 589. Fig. 590. above the head in a special form of the dance of the joined hands(319, 322). In the numerous forms of the character-dances, themovements arc varied and many in number. The hicrodulc does notalways conform to the customs of the dance, but the divergence isslight, and there is noneof the unnatural move-ment that characterizesthe other dances withjoined hands. The series of dancerswho wear the kalothos isan ensemble most valu-able in the study of thehomogeneity of thedance; the absence of the gymnastic forms dear to the Bacchants andtheir like prove that the dance of the hierodules is the expression of acult without frenzy. 408. Religious Processions.—There are a great number of pro-. Fig. 591. 266 THE DANCERS cessions with which the dance is connected by the music; in thesolemn processions the attributes of the god were carried; the hymnswere sung as an accompaniment to the march, the metrical form of
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