Writers / English

Texts in English
on the revival of Ancient Greek dance

Articles

Malgorzata Borowska: Ancient Greek dance in Poland. A reconnaissance.

 

Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck: Isadora Duncan. Spirit of Athena.Paper presented at the 1991 World Congress CID.

 

Natasha Hassiotis: Commentary from the Documentary “A Century of Contemporary Dance in Greece”, NET (New Greek Television) january-February 2001.

 

Susan Mitchell-Smith: ISTD’s Classical Greek Dance Faculty

 

Frederick Naerebout: (2004), A failed attempt – but a great success. The history of ballet as a series of attempts to return to the dancing of the Greeks and Romans. In: Poesio G. (Ed.) Proceedings of the international

 

Samuel N. Dorf: “Eva Palmer-Sikelianos Dances Aeschylus: The Politics of Historical Reenactment when Staging the Rites of the Past”, in Choros International Dance Journal, 5 (Spring 2016), pp. 1–11.

 

Kapetanaki, Regina: The role of the chorus and its applications in contemporary performances of ancient Greek drama. The problem of movement and dance and how it has been confronted. Athens, World Congress of Dance Research “Dance and Ancient Greece”, 1992?

 

Anthony Shay: “Wrapped in Greek Robes of Spirituality. Isadora Duncan’s Dance Performances, Gordon Craig, and Ancient Greece”, in Theatre Arts Journal: Studies in Scenography and Performance, Volume 4, Issue 1 (2017)  

 

Books

Alaina Wilson: Ancient dance through modern eyes. Four studies exploring the intersections of ancient and modern dance. Vassar College, 2016, 62 p

 

Ethel Beatrice Abrahams: Greek Dress: A Study of the Costumes Worn in Ancient Greece, from Pre-Hellenic Times to the Hellenistic Age. Harvard University. John Murray, 1908

 

Katia Savrami: Ancient Dramatic Chorus through the Eyes of a Modern Choreographer. Zouzou Nikoloudi. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, 190 p. 

 

Macintosh, Fiona (ed.): The ancient dancer in the modern world. Responses to Greek and Roman dance. Oxford University Press, 2010, 511 p. [ACR]

Macintosh, Fiona (ed.): The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World: Responses to Greek and Roman Dance. Oxford University Press, 2012, 536 pages

 

Louis H. Chalif: The Chalif text book of dancing. New York, 1920.

 

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