They also show off by picking up guitars and microphones and dancing like prairie bacchantes.

In one section, two dancers turn and leap like ballet bacchantes.

But in 1979, when Jerome Robbins made his Verdi ballet “The Four Seasons” for City Ballet, he specifically and effectively imitated those very bacchantes and satyrs.

I have seen quiet Copenhageners, with Danish autumnal coolness in their veins, become political bacchantes at his playing.

Among them, with trunks caught as it were in the warm embraces of these troops of bacchantes, are thousands of silver-green olive-trees.