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 discus...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Gianvittorio-Ungar, Laura (Editor), Schlapbach, Karin, 1969- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; 439.
Subjects:
Narrative in dance.
Dance > Greece > History.
Dance > Rome > History.
Danse > Grèce > Histoire.
Danse > Rome > Histoire.
Narrative in dance
Dance
Greece
Rome (Empire)
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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