Introduction, Fiona Macintosh I. Dance and the Ancient Sources 1. Dead but not Extinct: On Reinventing Pantomime Dancing in Eighteenth-Century England and France, Ismene Lada-Richards 2. 'In Search of a Dead Rat': The Reception of Ancient Greek Dance in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe and America, Frederick Naerebout 3. The Tanagra Effect: Wrapping the Modern Body in the Folds of Ancient Greece, Ann Cooper-Albright 4. Reception or Deception? Approaching Dance through Vase-Painting, Tyler Jo Smith 5. A Pylades for the twentieth century: Fred Astaire and the Aesthetic of Bodily Eloquence, Kathleen Riley II. Dance and Decadence 6.

'Where there is Dance there is the Devil': Ancient and Modern Representations of Salome, Ruth Webb 7. 'Heroes of the Dance Floor': The Missing Exemplary Male Dancer in the Ancient Sources, Edith Hall 8. Servile Bodies? The Status of the Professional Dancer in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries, Jennifer Thorp 9. Dancing Maenads in Early Twentieth-Century Britain, Fiona Macintosh III. Dance and Myth 10. Ancient Greece, Dance and the English Masque, Barbara Ravelhofer 11. Dancing with Prometheus: Performance and Spectacle in the 1920s, Pantelis Michelakis 12. From Duncan to Bausch with Iphigenia, Alessandra Zanobi 13.

Ancient Myths and Modern Moves: The Greek-Inspired Dance Theatre of Martha Graham, Henrietta Bannerman 14. Iphigenia, Orpheus and Eurydice in the Human Narrative of Pina Bausch, Nadine Meisner IV. Ancient Dance and the Modern Mind 15. Knowing the Dancer, Knowing the Dance: The Dancer as Decor, Daniel Albright 16. Modernism and Dance: Apollonian or Dionysian?, Sue Jones 17. Dance, Psychoanalysis and Modernist Aesthetics: Martha Graham's 'Night Journey', Vanda Zajko 18. Striking a Balance: The Apolline and Dionysiac in Post-Classical Choreography, Arabella Stanger 19. Caryl Churchill and Ian Spink 'allowing the past to speak directly to the present', Richard Cave V.

The Ancient Chorus in Contemporary Performance 20. Staniewski's Secret Alphabet of Gestures: Dance, Body and Metaphysics, Yana Zarifi 21. Gesamtkunstwerk: Modern Moves and the Ancient Chorus, Struan Leslie 22. Red Ladies : Who are they and what do they want?, Suzy Willson & Helen Eastman.