Round Table: Dance, Metrics and Text in Ancient Theater

An open workshop organized by Prof. Philippe Brunet and Dr. Linda Talatas on Monday 26th of May at 10 am at the Finnish Institute and online via Zoom.

The movement of ancient dance in its free modern inspirations, from Nijinsky to Isadora Duncan, is also a highly textualized expression, in which the metrical, strophic text, surviving because it was passed on, is no more than the formal mirror, in negative print, of the lost dance. Does this surviving text bear the trace and possible beginnings of an alternation of steps, of an alternation of momentum and fall, of a game in which the rhythmic march takes on all the most stylized forms of flight? Philologists, archaeologists, metricians, actors, practitioners of choral or orchestral art and devotees of the ancient Muse discuss their practices, the dreams that lead them to go beyond the text in search of dance, and movement to fulfill the text. 

The event is in English and French.

Speakers and titles: 

Philippe Brunet, PhD, Prof. at Universtié de Rouen-Normandie, ERIAC, director of Théâtre Démodocos

Les retrouvailles de la danse et du mètre, vingt ans après

François Cam, PhD, Université Marie et Louis Paster, CRIT, Choirmaster at the Chœur antique of Sorbonne University

Mélos et Choreia dans Antigone de Sophocle et la Première Olympique de Pindare

Linda Talatas, PhD, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Swedish Institute at Athens

Performing in the orchestra of Ancient Greek theaters: thoughts on actors’ footwear and ground composition

Susie Vusbaumer, PhD candidate, Université de Rouen-Normandie, ERIAC

Le temps, la danse et le drame

Gilles de Rosny, Prof. emeritus, LED, Université Paris 7

Une police de caractères pour indiquer les mouvements de danse et la musique associés à un texte.

Nicolas Lakshmanan-Minet, PhD, Université de Rouen-Normandie, ERIAC

Le trimètre iambique, du grec au français

Anne-Iris Muñoz, PhD, Université de Fribourg, CPGE Rouen

Le chœur des Sept à corps et à cris : chorégraphier l’Erinye du dedans.

Dominique Rebaud, choregrapher, researcher at Pôle Sup 93, director of Compagnie CAMARGO-Festival Danses Ouvertes

Des corps dansant dans l’écriture: De la Sardana à Médée de Philippe Brunet par le Théâtre Démodocos

Diane-Iris Ricaud, ENS alumna, dancer and choreographer at Théâtre Démodocos, independent researcher

Retour d’expérience d’une danseuse au sein de Démodocos : apprendre, comprendre, et reprendre la danse de chœur, des Suppliantes à Médée.

Robert Emil Berge, Postdoctoral Fellow, Vitenskapelig Høyskole

Aristophanes’ Nocturnal Frogs

To attend the event via Zoom please register in advance:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/eOdbKpKUROipUXp9A3rfqg