Choreonarratives : dancing stories in Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond / edited by Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar, Karin Schlapbach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gianvittorio-Ungar, Laura, editor.

Schlapbach, Karin, 1969- editor.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; 0169-8958 v. 439.

Mnemosyne supplements, 0169-8958 ; volume 439

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narrative in dance.

Dance--Greece--History.

Dance.

Dance--Rome--History.

History.

Greece.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 369 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"Choreonarratives, a collection of essays by classicists, dance scholars, and dance practitioners, explores the uses of dance as a narrative medium. Examples from Greek and Roman antiquity illustrate how dance contributed to narrative repertoires in their multimodal manifestations, while discussions of modern and contemporary dance shed light on practices, discourses, and ancient legacies regarding the art of dancing stories. Benefitting from the crossover of different disciplinary, historical, and artistic perspectives, the volume looks beyond current narratological trends and investigates the manifold ways in which dance can acquire meaning, disclose storyworlds ranging from myths to individual life-stories, elicit the narratees' responses, and generate powerful narratives of its own. Together, the eclectic approaches of Choreonarratives rethink dance's capacity to tell, enrich, and inspire stories"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : narratives in motion / Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar and Karin Schlapbach

Dance and narrative in Greek comedy / Bernhard Zimmermann

Narrative dance : imitating ethos and pathos through schēmata / Sophie M. Bocksberger

Making sense : dance in ancient Greek mystery cults and in Acts of John / Karin Schlapbach

A dancer's discourse : Noé Soulier choreographs Virginia Woolf / Lucia Ruprecht

Dancing Io's life : hurt body, tragic suffering (Prometheus Bound, 561-608) / Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar

Narrating neoptolemus : dance and death in Euripides' Andromache / Sarah Olsen

Salome's dance : heads and bodies between narrative and intertextuality / Danuta Shanzer

Dancing life stories : embodied auto-bio-narratives / Christina Thurner

Generic transformations : dancing Shakespeare from the 18th to the 21st century / Julia I. Bührle

Gesture as a means for portraying characters in Viennese mid-18th-century ballet / Karin Fenböck

The ballets russes and the Greek dance in Paris : Nijinsky's Faune, fantasies of the past, and the dance of the future / Samuel N. Dorf

Cross-cultural perspectives : adapting Euripides' Hippolytos, as Indonesian dance drama / Yana Zarifi-Sistovari

The fragmentary monumental : dancing female stories in the museum of archaeology / Marie-Louise Crawley

Epilogue / Susan L. Foster.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Choreonarratives

ISBN:

9789004462472

9004462473

OCLC:

1243020505