Dance in Ancient Greek Culture

Rita Spalva

doi:10.17770/sie2012vol2.523

Authors

Rita Spalva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17770/sie2012vol2.523

Keywords:

antique dance, dance technique, classification of antique dance, art of Apollo and Dionysius

Abstract

The greatness and harmony of ancient Greece has had an impact upon the development of the Western European culture to this day. The ancient Greek culture has influenced contemporary literature genres and systems of philosophy, principles of architecture, sculpture and drama and has formed basis for such sciences as astronomy and mathematics. The art of ancient Greece with its penchant for beauty and clarity has been the example of the humanity’s search for an aesthetic ideal. Despite only being preserved in its fragments, the dance of ancient Greece has become an example worthy of imitation in the development of classical dance as well as the 20th century modern dance, inspired by the notions of antique dance by Isadora Duncan. Research in antique dance helps sunderstand the historical relationships in dance ontology, axiology and anthropology.

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