The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . f 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,
The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures . f 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 marked byFig. 251; the four men Fouette right, principle IV forward (, A and C), in the position B-D of the same figure. 228. The dancer represented by Fig. 278 belongs to the samegroup as the preceding; the Position of the legs is identical with. Fig. DESCRIPTION OF SOME OF THE TEMPOS AND STEPS 125 the Position B-D of the Fig. 277. This shows that he, too, must beexecuting a Fouette to the rear, but on the right leg. 229. The mechanism of the Jete is reduced to a leap terminatingon the same leg (222), the other leg being lifted and curved back-ward from the knee. The different moments of the Jete were quite
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