Felix Cherniavsky - Contextual Research

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Felix Cherniavsky - Contextual Research

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Greek Art GREEK ART represents the whole kingdom presided over by the Muses - either parts not discriminating from one another and specialized , as in modern tiines , but regarded generally as the necessary culture of a free - born citizen . Thus art would include dancing , and singing , and music , and poetry , and the whole spiere of literature . There was no idea in Greece of divorcing either dancing or singing from other forms of artistic culture . The free - born citizen must be so trained , that alike , body and mind should be subservient to the highest ideals of humanity . Greek art is especially the delineation of the human individual , in his best and most perfect form . Correlative with the evolution of Greek Art rising on the dead stepping stones of its old self to higher things , and not in any sense dissociated from it , come thosc arts song , and music , and dance , which , in their various ways , also exhibit the human form in its utmost perfection . Nearly everyone was taught to dance in Greece , just as everyone was taught the sterner gymnastic exercise , music , and dancing . Possibly we may find it difficult to understand why the philosophers and the moralists of Greece attached so much importance to the various kinds of dance . But the reason is clear . Modern dancing is a mere amusement , mainly an exercise for the feet . Ancient dancing was an exercise for the whole body ; and , insteaú of being on the level of an entertainment , was closely connected with religion and the drama . In the East , as we are all aware , da icing was and is the language of religion . King David , in order to show his religious fervour , danced before the ark with all his might , despite the scorn of his wife . In Greece choral dancing was at afts of ee the ritual of religion and the ordinary accompaniment of a festival . The highest form of music , and the most perfect form of physical exercise then discov ered . It was both educational and symbolic . So far as it was educational , being closely connected with appropriate music , it produced , according to the Greek idea , the proper religious atmosphere . So far as dancing was symbolic , it was the immediate ancestor of the drama . The boy who danced in honour of Dionysus was trying to make himself resemble the god , trying to bring out pictorially , as it were , the history and personality of that Deity . Thus dancing became expres sive of very different kinds of feeling and action . The very movements of the chorus in Greek dramas helped to attune the minds of the spectators to the type of play that was being enacted before their eyes . In a word , dancing was an education and a religious ceremony , a physical exercise and a piece of live and livid drama . Thus Greece had achieved its mission in art , had succeeded in translating its ideals through physical perfection in ideal excellence . vivid