| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 208 pages) : illustrations. |
|
text txt rdacontent |
|
still image sti rdacontent |
|
computer c rdamedia |
|
online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Ancient textiles series ; 41 |
|
Ancient textiles series ; 41.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"An innovative series of case studies looking at the significance, meaning and social context of costume and textiles used in dance among a variety of ancient cultures and civilisations"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
1. Practical perspectives on dance and clothing / Elizabeth J.W. Barber -- 2. Dancing in flames: fabulous designs from the desert sands: reconstructing the east Central Asian skirts' construction secret / Ulrike Beck -- 3. The whirling dance of Baukis: reinterpreting our sources / Elena Miramontes Seijas -- 4. Dance and metatheatre in Menander's Theophoroumene / Evangelia Keramari -- 5. The unhellenic attire of choruses as image of the "other" in ancient Greek tragedy / Leonidas Papadopoulos -- 6. The dress of the dancing lares / Alexandra Sofroniew -- 7. Dance and clothing in ancient Egypt: the earliest evidence / Heidi Köpp-Junk -- 8. Soft cloth and sounding jewellery: sound fields of rich women in Eastern Hallstatt culture / Karina Grömer and Beate Maria Pomberger -- 9. Flowing white dresses for dancing initiates in the Mysteries of Eleusis / Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia -- 10. Fashioning sensescapes through ancient Egyptian dance / Jordan Galczynski and Robyn Price -- 11. Dancing around the goddess' dress / Angela Bellia -- 12. "Wearing" tattoos in Ancient Egypt: evidence from Middle Kingdom mummies and feminine figurines / Vittoria Rapisarda -- 13. Egyptologist dancers: re-enacting "ancient Egyptian" dances at the beginning of the 20th century / Gerrit Berenike Heiter. |
| Biography |
Audrey Gouy is Marie Sklodowska-Curie researcher at the Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Textile fabrics, Ancient.
|
|
Dance costume -- History.
|
|
Clothing and dress -- History -- To 500.
|
|
Dance -- History.
|
|
Dance -- Social aspects.
|
|
Danse -- Histoire.
|
|
Textiles et tissus antiques.
|
|
Danse -- Aspect social.
|
|
Costumes de danse -- Histoire.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
|
|
Clothing and dress
|
|
Dance
|
|
Dance -- Social aspects
|
|
Textile fabrics, Ancient
|
| Chronological Term |
To 500
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Added Author |
Gouy, Audrey, editor.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Textiles in motion. Oxford ; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2023 9781789257984 (OCoLC)1266253750 |
| ISBN |
9781789257991 epub |
|
1789257999 epub |
|
9798888570937 (electronic bk.) |
|
9781789257984 hardback |
|
1789257980 hardback |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000074439120 |
|
