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The Painter of the Berlin Dancing Girl was an Apulian red-figure vase painter, who was active between 430–410 BC. [ citation needed ] He was named after a calyx krater in the collection of the Antikensammlung Berlin , [ 1 ] which depicts a girl dancing to the aulos played by a seated woman.
The important place of women in dance can be traced back to the origins of civilization. Cave paintings, Egyptian frescos, Indian statuettes, ancient Greek and Roman art and records of court traditions in China and Japan all testify to the important role women played in ritual and religious dancing from the start.
The history of the stance is often said to reach back to the famous Dancing Girl from Mohenjo-Daro, of about c. 2300–1750 BCE, [7] although this does not exactly show the usual later form. It may well derive from dance before art, [8] but the remaining record in early art is more clear. The earliest versions are nearly all in female figures ...
Edgar Degas (UK: / ˈ d eɪ ɡ ɑː /, US: / d eɪ ˈ ɡ ɑː, d ə ˈ ɡ ɑː /; [1] [2] born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French: [ilɛːʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡaʁ də ɡa]; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
The original wax sculpture at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (French: La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans) is a sculpture begun c. 1880 by Edgar Degas of a young student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, a Belgian named Marie van Goethem.
Abhinaya: Abhinaya is the art of facial expression and hand gestures in Indian classical dance. Mohiniyattam dancers use abhinaya to convey the emotions and meaning of the dance. Mudra: Mudras are hand gestures that are used to convey specific meanings in Indian classical dance.
In Bharatanatyam, the classical dance of India performed by Lord Nataraja, approximately 51 root mudras (hand or finger gestures) are used to clearly communicate specific ideas, events, actions, or creatures in which 28 require only one hand, and are classified as `Asamyuta Hasta', along with 23 other primary mudras which require both hands and are classified as 'Samyuta Hasta'; these 51 are ...
Dance is an art form, ... The Dancing Girl ... James, L. (1986) Measures of Wisdom: The Cosmic Dance in Classical and Christian Antiquity, ...