Choreonarratives : dancing stories in Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond

"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 7 ‎Figures 9 ‎Notes on Contributors 11 ‎Chapter 1. Introduction: Narratives in Motion (Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach) 13 ‎Part 1. Dance as Medium of Narration 49 ‎Chapter 2. Dance and Narrative in Greek Comedy (Zimmermann) 51 ‎Chapter 3. Narrative Dance: Imitating Ēthos and Pathos through Schēmata (Bocksberger) 69 ‎Chapter 4. Making Sense: Dance in Ancient Greek Mystery Cults and in Acts of John (Schlapbach) 94 ‎Chapter 5. A Dancer’s Discourse: Noé Soulier Choreographs Virginia Woolf (Ruprecht) 120 ‎Part 2. Dancers as Narrators, Narratives of Dance 139 ‎Chapter 6. Dancing Io’s Life: Hurt Body, Tragic Suffering (Prometheus Bound 561–608) (Gianvittorio-Ungar) 141 ‎Chapter 7. Narrating Neoptolemus: Dance and Death in Euripides’ Andromache (Olsen) 168 ‎Chapter 8. Salome’s Dance: Heads and Bodies between Narrative and Intertextuality (Shanzer) 192 ‎Chapter 9. Dancing Life Stories: Embodied Auto-bio-narratives (Thurner) 226 ‎Part 3. Translations and Reenactments 247 ‎Chapter 10. Generic Transformations: Dancing Shakespeare from the 18th to the 21st Century (Bührle) 249 ‎Chapter 11. Gesture as a Means for Portraying Characters in Viennese Mid-18th-century Ballet (Fenböck) 269 ‎Chapter 12. The Ballets Russes and the Greek Dance in Paris: Nijinsky’s Faune, Fantasies of the Past, and the Dance of the Future (Dorf) 296 ‎Chapter 13. Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Adapting Euripides’ Hippolytos as Indonesian Dance Drama (Zarifi-Sistovari) 312 ‎Chapter 14. The Fragmentary Monumental: Dancing Female Stories in the Museum of Archaeology (Crawley) 343 ‎Chapter 15. Epilogue (Foster) 363 ‎Index of Passages Discussed 369 ‎Subject Index 376 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.0Benefitting 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