PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern

Paper · Semantic Scholar

One of the most important representations of India’s intangible cultural heritage is Indian classical dance. It makes the connection between modern social reality and classical aesthetic theory. This article explains the historical development of Indian classical dance using institutional sources, contemporary studies, and classical treatises. The study covers the features of major forms, the function of institution…

Reference · Wikidata

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Book · DOAB

The fourteen chapters of this e-book examine Roman dance by looking at its role in Roman religion, by following it into the theatre and the banquet hall, and by tracing its (metaphorical) presence in a variety of literary contexts, including rhetorical treatises, biography, and lyric poetry. These different approaches, which draw on literary texts, inscriptions, documentary papyri, the visual record, and modern repe…

Full text · Open Library

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