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Gesture and Movement in the Tragic Chorus workshop

Venue
Lady Brodie Room, St Hilda's College, OX4 1DY
Date

The APGRD are happy to support a practical workshop taking place on Wednesday 28 May from 2.30pm-6pm, run by Shreya Dua (University of Durham) with the support of OCDS (Oxford Classical Drama Society). The workshop looks at dance movements in the chorus of Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes; it will focus on the practical embodiment of the text in an interactive and performance-oriented space. 

The workshop will be informed by various genres within dance, such as Indian classical, contemporary, and Western classical ballet, as well as the use of the body to encode gesture in theatre. The participants will be co-researchers in the process of understanding how text motivates and ascertains movement patterns, how different approaches interpret the same textual material, and how words are embodied both through translation and in the original language. 

All are welcome to join and watch the process, those with professional or semi-professional experiences in Indian classical dance, contemporary dance, ballet, theatre, and body movement, and translation from ancient Greek and Greek metre are encouraged to join in. Please sign-up for the workshop via Google Docs.

The workshop forms part of Shreya’s research for the final chapter of her thesis, and you may be asked to fill out a research ethics consent form on the day. If you would like to know more about this in advance, or if you have any queries about the workshop please email shreya.dua@durham.ac.uk