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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
"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)
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.