Χορός: A stage-shifting periact on which all the earth will dance. A Paradigm for dance from Antiquity to Byzantium and beyond
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Χορός : A stage-shifting periact on which all the earth will dance. A Paradigm for dance from Antiquity to Byzantium and beyond. / Isar, Nicoletta.
Danses imaginades, danses relatades. Dancing Images and Tales: Paradigmes iconogràfics del ball des de l’Antiguitat clàssica fins a l’edat mitjana. Iconography of dance from Classical to Middle Age. ed. / Licia Buttà; Jesús Carruesco; Francesc Massip; Eva Subías. Vol. T R A M A 1 TREBALLS D’ARQUEOLOGIA DE LA MEDITERRÀNIA ANTIGA Tarragona : Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, 2014. p. 51-64.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Χορός
T2 - A stage-shifting periact on which all the earth will dance. A Paradigm for dance from Antiquity to Byzantium and beyond
AU - Isar, Nicoletta
N1 - Seminari Internacional “Danses imaginades, danses relatades. Paradigmes iconogràfics del ball des de l’Antiguitat clàssica fins a l’Edat Mitjana”, celebrat el 3 de desembre del 2012, organitzat pel Grup de Recerca ICONODANSA (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, URV).
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article aims to contribute to Iconodansa with a new rich concept (χορός), which could be translated as dance, as well as performative (dancing) space. Thus, χορός is a prolific tool for the research of the choral space. The author puts forth the syntagm Byzantine Chorography as the inscription of sacred space, χώρα, by the mystical dance, χορός. The originality of this concept stands in unveiling and enforcing an important paradigm (χορός), which has deep roots in ancient practices, in which it was imagined as a kind of stage-shifting periact on which “all the Earth will dance” (Euripides, Bacchae 114). In the Christianworld, dance had too a cosmological and initiatic dimension. The ontological state of being as a dancing man actually justifies and gives full meaning to the Passions of Christ, which are necessarily experienced so “That Adam may dance (Romanos the Melodist, De passione). Here, Adam stands for the whole humanity. However, the Byzantine χορός reflects a unique ontology, a new mode of being in the world and a new vision. As Agamben says, the paradigmatic character of things lies not in the things themselves but in being. Therefore,this vision of χορός, while joining Iconodansa, where many visions of the dance have been shared, could only be seized, like any other dance, in its own “exemplary constellation.”
AB - This article aims to contribute to Iconodansa with a new rich concept (χορός), which could be translated as dance, as well as performative (dancing) space. Thus, χορός is a prolific tool for the research of the choral space. The author puts forth the syntagm Byzantine Chorography as the inscription of sacred space, χώρα, by the mystical dance, χορός. The originality of this concept stands in unveiling and enforcing an important paradigm (χορός), which has deep roots in ancient practices, in which it was imagined as a kind of stage-shifting periact on which “all the Earth will dance” (Euripides, Bacchae 114). In the Christianworld, dance had too a cosmological and initiatic dimension. The ontological state of being as a dancing man actually justifies and gives full meaning to the Passions of Christ, which are necessarily experienced so “That Adam may dance (Romanos the Melodist, De passione). Here, Adam stands for the whole humanity. However, the Byzantine χορός reflects a unique ontology, a new mode of being in the world and a new vision. As Agamben says, the paradigmatic character of things lies not in the things themselves but in being. Therefore,this vision of χορός, while joining Iconodansa, where many visions of the dance have been shared, could only be seized, like any other dance, in its own “exemplary constellation.”
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-84-942034-1-1
VL - T R A M A 1 TREBALLS D’ARQUEOLOGIA DE LA MEDITERRÀNIA ANTIGA
SP - 51
EP - 64
BT - Danses imaginades, danses relatades. Dancing Images and Tales
A2 - Buttà, Licia
A2 - Carruesco, Jesús
A2 - Massip, Francesc
A2 - Subías, Eva
PB - Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica
CY - Tarragona
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