CHORUS Ancient Drama Receptions
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CHORUS is a network of researchers working on receptions of ancient Greek and Roman performance texts, including ancient comedy, tragedy, satyr plays, pantomime, and epic poetry. Reception is taken here as the creative process of making something new out of one or more ancient sources (a new performance, dance, translation, film adaptation, etc). The network was born of a collective awareness that studying receptions of ancient drama is a transnational effort, which thrives on confronting academic and creative traditions, methodologies, and concepts. Every year a two-day colloquium, held in March/April, brings together researchers who share their work-in-progress or address the annual topic, highlighting circulations, contaminations, and the diversity of contexts and formats in which the ancient sources find new meanings and forms. We are fortunate that a number of our members are themselves performers, dramaturgs, choreographers, dancers, and stage directors, ensuring exchanges between scholarship and performance.
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Yes
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Founding year
2023
Contact details
66 St. Giles
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3LU
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Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD)
The University of Oxford’s Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) is a pioneering centre for international and interdisciplinary research into performances inspired by ancient … read more about Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD)
University Of Oxford
66 St. Giles
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3LU
University affiliation(s)
University of Oxford
Oxford
University of Oxford
Oxford
Additional Partnerships
- HAR (Histoire des Arts et des Représentations) - Université Paris Nanterre - Universidade de Lisboa
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2026-04-02 11:57:28