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... dance . Amid all the other forms of drama that branched from it , the dance remains impor- tant in man's life . We watch with pleasure the disciplined art of ballet companies , and we step onto the dance floor ourselves in modes as ...
... dance . Amid all the other forms of drama that branched from it , the dance remains impor- tant in man's life . We watch with pleasure the disciplined art of ballet companies , and we step onto the dance floor ourselves in modes as ...
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... dance - drama grew by slow evo- lution , becoming more complex in its symbols and forms with the growing intellectual power of man , his ability to have ideas . The original religious importance of the dance - drama lay in the belief ...
... dance - drama grew by slow evo- lution , becoming more complex in its symbols and forms with the growing intellectual power of man , his ability to have ideas . The original religious importance of the dance - drama lay in the belief ...
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... Dancing circles , nestling in the hollows of the hills , were the first stages ; the curving hillsides , the first ... dances . Around 535 B.C. a man named Thespis , of whom we know only that he was a prominent leader of the chorus ...
... Dancing circles , nestling in the hollows of the hills , were the first stages ; the curving hillsides , the first ... dances . Around 535 B.C. a man named Thespis , of whom we know only that he was a prominent leader of the chorus ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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