Article: Terpsichore and the architects: 'I have a deep sense of my body's architecture ... the skeleton', said choreographer Trisha Brown in her prelude to the Royal Academy Forum which brought the worlds of dance and architecture together. In these pages Jeremy Melvin summarizes contributions, from a classicist, two architects, three choreographers and artist David Ward.(Royal Academy of Arts)

CHRISTIANS DON'T DANCE

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Simon Goldhill

Dance had a particular significance in Ancient Greece. Its subsequent history in Western culture is grounded in the Christian response to the Greek world, from the early dismissal of bodily pleasure to the discovery that Greece could be an antidote to Christian bodily attitudes in the late nineteenth and early twenticth centuries. Nothing shows the changing significance of dance better than the terrible problem contemporary theatre has with the chorus when staging Greck drama.

A story reveals much about how dance was viewed in Ancient Greece. Cleisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon in ...

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