A Discourse on Dancing

Lucian's On Dancing and the Models for a Discourse on Pantomime *

It argues that dance was understood as a practice in which human beings, whether as dancers or spectators, are confronted with the irreducible reality of their own physical existence, which is constantly changing, and that its way to cognition and action is physical experience.

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Frontmatter List of Figures 0. Elements of ancient dance discourse 2.

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Literary contexts of ancient dance discourse 3. Art and text, ekphrasis and dance 4.

Dance Discourse Project

Mimesis, display, and the cultural force of dance Part I. Frameworks for a Discourse on Dance 1.

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The Grammar of Dance: Plutarch's Table Talk 9. The place of dance in Plutarch's Table Talk 3.

Phrase, pose, and pointing: Deixis and its relationship with language theory 5. Deixis as display, or how dance surpasses language 2. The ostensible paradigm of the orator 2.

Dancers Dream With Their Feet

Icons of mimesis in Lucian's On dancing 3. Body language and its interpretation 4. Dance and the discourse on images 5. Interactions with 'performative' sculpture 3. Dance as Method and Experience: Emotional and Epistemic Aspects of Dance 1. Dance discourse and the protreptic tradition in Lucian and Libanius 2. The art of spectatorship and the dance of the heavenly bodies in Plato 3.

Poetic models and philosophical developments 4. Dance and intelligent design 5. Dance, experience, and cognition in the mysteries 6. Ekphraseis of Dances 4.

Perceived Authenticity and the Physical Presence of the Performer 1. Xenophon's Symposium and New Music 2.

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Within the newly thriving field of ancient Greek and Roman performance and dance studies, The Anatomy of Dance Discourse offers a fresh and original. Discourses In Dance And Somatics. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, Bristol,. UK, v. 1, n. 1, p , DOI: /JDSP/1. * Dance Course.

Aristoxenus and Athenaeus 3. Myth and its authentication through dance in imperial epigram 4. The dancer's mimetic excess 5. Dance and Interpretation in Longus and Apuleius 1. Learn more about Amazon Prime.

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