Léon Bakst, “Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé” for Daphnis et Chloé (ca. 1912), graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper. 17.5×11.1 inches (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, ...

The mosaic was discovered during the construction of a water pipeline. Greek Ministry of Culture While building a water line, construction workers in Greece discovered an ancient mosaic depicting a ...

Anastasios Doulamis, professor at the National Technical University of Athens, is creating digital 3-D dance recordings to preserve traditional Greek dance cultures threated with extinction. He tells ...

University of Cincinnati Assistant Professor Anna Conser is helping produce the tragic play "Antigone" with lyrics from the Greek chorus performed with attention to pitch accents, much as they were ...

In a fusion of contemporary choreography and ancient dance rituals, the Denver-based Zikr Dance Ensemble will perform the show "Ancient Shadows" in Grand Junction. The fully-costumed dance performance ...

Ancient Greeks celebrated spring in true Dionysian fashion by drinking, dancing, and sacrificing. In fact, those early festivals were often held in honor of Dionysus himself. As we know, the dude ...