Greek Reporter17d
Pyrrhichios: The Ancient Greek War Dance
Pyrrhichios was the ancient Greek war dance that originated from the mythical demons, the Couretes, who danced to save the newborn Zeus. Image: Pyrrhic dance impression of French painter Jean-Léon ...
Tom Odell | Interview20d
Rob de Boer brings New York jazz-dance aesthetics to traditional Irish pub setting in video for ‘Our Own Way’
‘Our Own Way’ is accompanied by a beautifully choreographed music video directed by Rob de Boer and Douglas Reddan that re-contextualises 1950-70s Bob Fosse, New York jazz-dance aesthetics within a ...
Greek Reporter24d
Hundreds of People from 20 Countries Dance Zeibekiko Under the Acropolis
Hundreds of dancers from different parts of the world met under the Acropolis to dance zeibekiko and other Greek dances. Credit: Dimitris Petropoulos / FB Screenshot Three hundred dancers from 20 ...
The Arts Desk1mon
Phaedra + Minotaur, Royal Ballet and Opera, Linbury Theatre review - a double dose of Greek myth
Benjamin Britten’s Phaedra – a work he called a cantata but which is more like sung psychodrama – uses the poet Robert Lowell’s translation of Racine’s Phèdre to explore the fallout from the character ...
sciencex1y
Dance research: Iranian classical dance as an important resource for empirical aesthetics
Funding and promotion of dance does not exist in the same way as in Western countries. An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt ...
Frontiers13y
The impact of aesthetic evaluation and physical ability on dance perception
Though less studied than the neuroaesthetics of visual art, dance neuroaesthetics is a particularly rich subfield to explore, as it is informed not only by research on the neurobiology of aesthetics, ...