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dance. Fig. 122 shows the same woman draped in 

 a cloak, and turning round in a sort of valse. M. 

 Maurice Emmanuel, who is bringing out an important 

 work on the dances of antiquity, asked us to take 

 instantaneous photographs of certain attitudes, such 

 as he noticed on some of his bas-reliefs and Greek 

 vases. On looking at these photographs one cannot 

 help recognizing a sort of general suggestiveness of 



Fig. Li 



of the attitudes of a Greek dance, at 



the particular movement of the dance by the fall of 

 the drapery. 



Even the successive phases of a dance may be 

 followed in a series of chronophotographs, but the 

 narrow limits of this book only allow us to offer a 

 few examples (Fig. 121). 



It is easy to see what a variety of attitudes could 

 be obtained on a long film. And these could show 



