Introduction. Narratives in Motion

Greek and Roman Musical Studies, 2020

The purpose of the symposium “Narratives in Motion. The Art of Dancing Stories in Antiquity and Beyond” was to make original contributions to the thriving field of study on ancient Greek and Roman dance by tackling this issue from an angle which is both specific in that it narrows down the focus on dance narrativity across different performance genres, and inclusive in that it encompasses transcultural, transhistorical and practice-based approaches. With eleven talks by classical and dance scholars and two performances by dance artists, the symposium was able to shed light on a range of practices, genres and cultural aspects relating to narrative dance in the ancient and, to a lesser degree, modern world. The event took place on 22-23 June 2018 at the Department of Classics of the University of Vienna, and was sponsored by the FWF-Austrian Science Fund (Project V442-G25 “Aischylos’ diegetisches Drama”).

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2023

Complete draft of my review on Choreonarratives that could only be published in an abbreviated form.

Zoa Alonso Fernández & Sarah Olsen (eds), Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome, 2024

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1995

J. HE anciem Greek world displayed a level of saltatory enthusiasm which, although not unique, is quite remarkable. This has resulted in a considerable corpus of written evidence and of images in several media. The number of individual dances and of occasions on which dance was deemed appropriate or indispensable, mentioned or depicted in these sources is very large. Of course the (in)frequent occurrence of a phenomenon in the record does not stand in a one to one relationship to this phenomenon's (un)importance, as every statistician will explain and every archaeologist (but not every ancient historian) knows. But in this instance, I suggest a good case can be made. Dance is omnipresent in our source material, because it was omnipresent in ancient Greek society. Consequently, dance should be given its due in scholarship. This is, however, hardly the case, although the specialist bibliography on dancing in Antiquity is certainly extensive-the first monograph on the subject dating from 1618 (Meursius)-most studies, whether scholarly or popularizing, dealing with ancient Greek society, culture, religion ormentalité do not mention dance at all or only as an unimportant side-issue. Several different reasons can be adduced to explain why this is so; one seems to be a failing source criticism. In the present article I will stick to texts and images, with pride of place going to the images. There are many problems involved in the interpretation of these, often well-known sources, with all the treacherous self-evidence which that familiarity entails. What is the nature of the material, what can we do with it? What can one actually find out about a phenomenon so evanescent as we know dance to be? (Sparshott 1995, 420-21). We have to face the incontrovertible fact that the ordinary type of written source can only provide a highly inadequate description of more complicated motor behaviour. Indeed everything

This is an unpublished paper presented at a conference of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classic Greek Song, "The Genres of Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry. Theories and Models" (Univ. of California, Berkeley, sept. 25-28, 2015, org. Leslie Kurke). This work is part of a larger current project about the relations of ancient and contemporary choreographic thought and practices, especially in a both queer and post-classic perspective.

n this paper we propose a plural approach to ancient Greek music by philological analysis, digital sound technology, and choreographic investigation. Our aim is to construct a model to expose the performative horizon that is found in the text. In order to do that, we proceed from a textual and metrical analysis first. The results from this analysis are processed by a DAW (Digital audio workstation). After this, some audio files are provided and submitted to dance improvisation. In the last part of this research, there is a comparative analysis between Greek rhythms and Brazilian traditional dances. Keywords: ancient Greek music, sound studies, metrical description, dance studies, Brazilian traditional dances

أوراق کلاسیکیة, 2020