Choreonarratives

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.

"it might feel like Choreonarratives is the culmination of a period of work around dance and classics, a summation even. But thankfully I believe it signals the beginning of a new period of interdisciplinary collaboration between Dance Studies and Classics." Marcus Bell in BMCR (2022.10.13)"for classicists, this volume opens the door to the reexamination of the embodied dimension of language, as it supplies new tools for accessing the overwhelmingly textual nature of the ancient Greek and Latin sources and their traditions while recognizing the many tensions these reflect (and imply) between writing and performance. For scholars interested in dance, the book demonstrates the endless reverberations of ancient dance theory and how the Greek and Roman understandings of storytelling can be of use when studying narrative – and even non-narrative – dance practices from other geographies and time-periods as well." Zoa Alonso Fernández in Greek and Roman Musical Studies 11 (2023)

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Narratives in MotionLaura Gianvittorio-Ungar and Karin SchlapbachPart 1 Dance as Medium of Narration2 Dance and Narrative in Greek ComedyBernhard Zimmermann3 Narrative Dance: Imitating Ēthos and Pathos through SchēmataSophie M. Bocksberger4 Making Sense: Dance in Ancient Greek Mystery Cults and in Acts of JohnKarin Schlapbach5 A Dancer’s Discourse: Noé Soulier Choreographs Virginia WoolfLucia RuprechtPart 2 Dancers as Narrators, Narratives of Dance6 Dancing Io’s Life: Hurt Body, Tragic Suffering (Prometheus Bound 561–608)Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar7 Narrating Neoptolemus: Dance and Death in Euripides’ AndromacheSarah Olsen8 Salome’s Dance: Heads and Bodies between Narrative and IntertextualityDanuta Shanzer9 Dancing Life Stories: Embodied Auto-bio-narrativesChristina ThurnerPart 3 Translations and Reenactments10 Generic Transformations: Dancing Shakespeare from the 18th to the 21st CenturyJulia I. Bührle11 Gesture as a Means for Portraying Characters in Viennese Mid-18th-century BalletKarin Fenböck12 The Ballets Russes and the Greek Dance in Paris: Nijinsky’s Faune, Fantasies of the Past, and the Dance of the FutureSamuel N. Dorf13 Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Adapting Euripides’ Hippolytos, as Indonesian Dance DramaYana Zarifi-Sistovari14 The Fragmentary Monumental: Dancing Female Stories in the Museum of ArchaeologyMarie-Louise Crawley15 EpilogueSusan Leigh FosterIndex