Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome: Book Launch

The APGRD celebrates the publication of Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome (Madrid: UAM Ediciones, 2024), edited by Zoa Alonso Fernández (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Sarah Olsen (Williams College), with responses from Sue Jones (University of Oxford) and Tom Sapsford (Boston College). Introduced by Professor Emerita Fiona Macintosh (APGRD), University of Oxford).

Emerging from a three-year research project (“Improntas de danza antigua: textos, cuerpos, imágenes, movimiento”, FBBVA / Spanish Society for Classical Studies), this book explores the many traces of ancient Greek and Roman dance, the impressions, re-imaginations, and imprints of bodily movement and choreography evident in the literary, visual, and material sources of Greek and Roman antiquity.

00:00 Intro (Fiona Macintosh)
05:25 Response (Tom Sapsford)
20:24 Response (Sue Jones)
35:19 Word from the editors (Sarah Olsen)
38:23 Word from the editors (Zoa Alonso Fernández)
41:06 Closing words (Fiona Macintosh)