TY - BOOK ID - 144906908 TI - Choreonarratives : dancing stories in Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond AU - Schlapbach, Karin AU - Gianvittorio-Ungar, Laura PY - 2021 SN - 9004462635 PB - Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Dance KW - Narrative in dance. KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:144906908 AB - "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"-- ER -