| Description | Programme for a lecture recital The Art of the Greek Dance, this gives no venue but a handwritten date '1950' on the front. The demonstration consisted of Part one: Introduction, demonstration of fundamental exercises for the attainment of general mobility and control, the correction of posture - exercises for poise and balance, relaxation, basic steps of the Greek Dance, ball dances, studies from Nature - a. sea rhythms b. snow clouds and snowflakes c. a tree destroyed by fire, "the prophet bird". Part two: introduction, gymnopaedic exercises for strength and the study of design mimetic representation of a. the diskus throw b. hurling the javelin c. archery, dance of athletes, a Spartan warrior, ritual gestures of worship, bacchic dances - a. a Maenad b. a vintage dance, a dancer of Corinth, musical interpretations. |