Description
Book SynopsisChoreonarratives, 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
Table of ContentsList 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 Ēthos and Pathos through Schēmata 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
