Choreonarratives

Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46247-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 439, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 762 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

Choreonarratives, a collection of essays by classicists, dance scholars, and dance practitioners, explores the uses of dance as a narrative medium. Case studies 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.

Contributors are Sophie M. Bocksberger, Iris J. Bührle, Marie-Louise Crawley, Samuel N. Dorf, Karin Fenböck, Susan L. Foster, Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar, Sarah Olsen, Lucia Ruprecht, Karin Schlapbach, Danuta Shanzer, Christina Thurner, Yana Zarifi-Sistovari, Bernhard Zimmermann

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gianvittorio-Ungar, Laura

Schlapbach, Karin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Choreographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Geschichte des Tanzes
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Narratives in Motion

Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar and Karin Schlapbach

Part 1 Dance as Medium of Narration

2 Dance and Narrative in Greek Comedy

Bernhard Zimmermann

3 Narrative Dance: Imitating Ethos and Pathos through Schemata

Sophie M. Bocksberger

4 Making Sense: Dance in Ancient Greek Mystery Cults and in Acts of John

Karin Schlapbach

5 A Dancer’s Discourse: Noé Soulier Choreographs Virginia Woolf

Lucia Ruprecht

Part 2 Dancers as Narrators, Narratives of Dance

6 Dancing Io’s Life: Hurt Body, Tragic Suffering (Prometheus Bound 561–608)

Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar

7 Narrating Neoptolemus: Dance and Death in Euripides’ Andromache

Sarah Olsen

8 Salome’s Dance: Heads and Bodies between Narrative and Intertextuality

Danuta Shanzer

9 Dancing Life Stories: Embodied Auto-bio-narratives

Christina Thurner

Part 3 Translations and Reenactments

10 Generic Transformations: Dancing Shakespeare from the 18th to the 21st Century

Julia I. Bührle

11 Gesture as a Means for Portraying Characters in Viennese Mid-18th-century Ballet

Karin Fenböck

12 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

13 Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Adapting Euripides’ Hippolytos, as Indonesian Dance Drama

Yana Zarifi-Sistovari

14 The Fragmentary Monumental: Dancing Female Stories in the Museum of Archaeology

Marie-Louise Crawley

15 Epilogue

Susan Leigh Foster

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar (PhD 2008, Palermo) is postdoctoral researcher in Classics at the University of Vienna/Austrian Academy of Sciences. She works on ancient Greek and Roman performance cultures and runs the project “Aeschylus’ narrative drama”, sponsored by the FWF-Austrian Science Fund.

Karin Schlapbach (PhD 2001, Zurich) is professor of Classics at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She is the author of The Anatomy of Dance Discourse (OUP 2018). Her current research focuses on physical aspects of literary production in Graeco-Roman antiquity.