THE COURSE AIMS: A) TO REFLECT ON THE DIFFERENT TRADITIONS AND INSTITUTIONS AS PART OF WESTERN THEATRICAL DANCE, B) TO ILLUSTRATE THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND TO UNDERSTAND THE CONTEMPORARY DANCE IN ALL ITS COMPLEXITY.
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The art of dance in Russia in comparison with the European dance theater, including:
a) the artistic construction of the dancer body in the Western theatre ("Bella Figura", XIX-XXI cent.);
b) the dance repertoire between philology and new versions (in particular: Mats Ek);
c) the artistic and choreographic avant-garde of the early Twentieth Century;
d) Apollo's Angels from Europe to the States: the Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine
TEXTBOOKS
Concetta Lo Iacono, Terpsichore’s Flight. A History of Russian Ballet in Pictures, Massimiliano Piretti Editore, Bologna (in preparation)
OR
Jennifer Homans, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet, Random House, New York, 2010 (Italian edition: Gli angeli di Apollo. Storia del balletto, EDT, Torino, 2015)
FOR NON ATTENDING STUDENTS, IN ADDITION:
Flavia Pappacena, volume 2 [Il Settecento e l'Ottocento], Storia della danza e del balletto (in 3 volumes), Gremese, Rome, 2019
OR
Di Tondo-Pappacena-Pontremoli, Storia della danza e del balletto, Gremese, Rome, 2019 (a single volume: from page 129).
REQUIRED VIDEOGRAPHY. Three videos, to be chosen among the following:
1. Bella figura, choreography Jiri Kylian
2. Giselle, choreography Leonid Lavrovskij (from Coralli-Perrot), with Galina Ulanova (London, 1956)
3. Sleeping Beauty, choreography Mats Ek (or La belle au bois dormant, choreography Marius Petipa, Mariinskij Theatre, Saint Petersburg)
4. Le Sacre du Printemps, choreography Vaslav Nijinsky (or Pina Bausch’s version, with Malou Airaudo)
5. Pétrouchka, choreography Michajl Fokin, with Nureyev (or Les Noces, choreography Bronislava Nijinska)
6. Romeo and Juliet, choreography Leonid Lavrovskij, with Galina Ulanova (or Romeo and Juliet, choreography MacMillan, with Alessandra Ferri)
7. Serenade, and Apollon, choreography Balanchine, New York City Ballet
ORAL TEST
For additional information, please E-MAIL: concetta.loiacono@uniroma3.it
2020 SPRING SEMESTER
Concetta Lo Iacono, Terpsichore’s Flight. A History of Russian Ballet in Pictures, Massimiliano Piretti Editore, Bologna (in preparation)
Or
Jennifer Homans, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet, Random House, New York, 2010 (Italian edition: Gli angeli di Apollo. Storia del balletto, EDT, Torino, 2015)
FOR NON ATTENDING STUDENTS, IN ADDITION:
Flavia Pappacena, volume 2 [Il Settecento e l'Ottocento], Storia della danza e del balletto (in 3 volumes), Gremese, Rome, 2019
OR
Di Tondo-Pappacena-Pontremoli, Storia della danza e del balletto, Gremese, Rome, 2019 (a single volume: from page 129).
REQUIRED VIDEOGRAPHY. Three videos, to be chosen among the following:
1. Bella figura, choreography Jiri Kylian
2. Giselle, choreography Leonid Lavrovskij (from Coralli-Perrot), with Galina Ulanova (London, 1956)
3. Sleeping Beauty, choreography Mats Ek (or La belle au bois dormant, choreography Marius Petipa, Mariinskij Theatre, Saint Petersburg)
4. Le Sacre du Printemps, choreography Vaslav Nijinsky (or Pina Bausch’s version, with malou Airaudo)
5. Pétrouchka, choreography Michajl Fokin, with Nureyev (or Les Noces, choreography Bronislava Nijinska)
6. Romeo and Juliet, choreography Leonid Lavrovskij, with Galina Ulanova (or Romeo and Juliet, choreography MacMillan, with Alessandra Ferri)
7. Serenade, and Apollon, choreography Balanchine, New York City Ballet
For additional information, please E-MAIL: concetta.loiacono@uniroma3.it
2020 SPRING SEMESTER
Programme
TITLE: Europe / Russia. The art of dance from classical repertoire to new choreographiesThe art of dance in Russia in comparison with the European dance theater, including:
a) the artistic construction of the dancer body in the Western theatre ("Bella Figura", XIX-XXI cent.);
b) the dance repertoire between philology and new versions (in particular: Mats Ek);
c) the artistic and choreographic avant-garde of the early Twentieth Century;
d) Apollo's Angels from Europe to the States: the Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine
TEXTBOOKS
Concetta Lo Iacono, Terpsichore’s Flight. A History of Russian Ballet in Pictures, Massimiliano Piretti Editore, Bologna (in preparation)
OR
Jennifer Homans, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet, Random House, New York, 2010 (Italian edition: Gli angeli di Apollo. Storia del balletto, EDT, Torino, 2015)
FOR NON ATTENDING STUDENTS, IN ADDITION:
Flavia Pappacena, volume 2 [Il Settecento e l'Ottocento], Storia della danza e del balletto (in 3 volumes), Gremese, Rome, 2019
OR
Di Tondo-Pappacena-Pontremoli, Storia della danza e del balletto, Gremese, Rome, 2019 (a single volume: from page 129).
REQUIRED VIDEOGRAPHY. Three videos, to be chosen among the following:
1. Bella figura, choreography Jiri Kylian
2. Giselle, choreography Leonid Lavrovskij (from Coralli-Perrot), with Galina Ulanova (London, 1956)
3. Sleeping Beauty, choreography Mats Ek (or La belle au bois dormant, choreography Marius Petipa, Mariinskij Theatre, Saint Petersburg)
4. Le Sacre du Printemps, choreography Vaslav Nijinsky (or Pina Bausch’s version, with Malou Airaudo)
5. Pétrouchka, choreography Michajl Fokin, with Nureyev (or Les Noces, choreography Bronislava Nijinska)
6. Romeo and Juliet, choreography Leonid Lavrovskij, with Galina Ulanova (or Romeo and Juliet, choreography MacMillan, with Alessandra Ferri)
7. Serenade, and Apollon, choreography Balanchine, New York City Ballet
ORAL TEST
For additional information, please E-MAIL: concetta.loiacono@uniroma3.it
2020 SPRING SEMESTER
Core Documentation
TEXTBOOKSConcetta Lo Iacono, Terpsichore’s Flight. A History of Russian Ballet in Pictures, Massimiliano Piretti Editore, Bologna (in preparation)
Or
Jennifer Homans, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet, Random House, New York, 2010 (Italian edition: Gli angeli di Apollo. Storia del balletto, EDT, Torino, 2015)
FOR NON ATTENDING STUDENTS, IN ADDITION:
Flavia Pappacena, volume 2 [Il Settecento e l'Ottocento], Storia della danza e del balletto (in 3 volumes), Gremese, Rome, 2019
OR
Di Tondo-Pappacena-Pontremoli, Storia della danza e del balletto, Gremese, Rome, 2019 (a single volume: from page 129).
REQUIRED VIDEOGRAPHY. Three videos, to be chosen among the following:
1. Bella figura, choreography Jiri Kylian
2. Giselle, choreography Leonid Lavrovskij (from Coralli-Perrot), with Galina Ulanova (London, 1956)
3. Sleeping Beauty, choreography Mats Ek (or La belle au bois dormant, choreography Marius Petipa, Mariinskij Theatre, Saint Petersburg)
4. Le Sacre du Printemps, choreography Vaslav Nijinsky (or Pina Bausch’s version, with malou Airaudo)
5. Pétrouchka, choreography Michajl Fokin, with Nureyev (or Les Noces, choreography Bronislava Nijinska)
6. Romeo and Juliet, choreography Leonid Lavrovskij, with Galina Ulanova (or Romeo and Juliet, choreography MacMillan, with Alessandra Ferri)
7. Serenade, and Apollon, choreography Balanchine, New York City Ballet
For additional information, please E-MAIL: concetta.loiacono@uniroma3.it
2020 SPRING SEMESTER
Reference Bibliography
REFERENCE BOOKS - HISTORY OF RUSSIAN BALLET Orlando Figes, La danza di Nataša. Storia della cultura russa (XVIII-XX secolo), Giulio Einaudi editore, Torino 2004 Christina Ezrahi, I Cigni del Cremlino. Balletto e potere nella Russia sovietica, Gremese, Roma 2017 Donatella Gavrilovich, Le arti e la danza. I coreografi russi e sovietici tra riforma e rivoluzione, Universitalia, Roma 2012 Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino, La danza d'arte. Balanchine, Cunningham, Forsythe. Tre maestri della danza formale, Roma, Audino, 2015 REFERENCE BOOKS – DANCE HISTORY ( XIX-XX SECC.) Eugenia Casini Ropa, La danza e l'agit-prop. I teatri non-teatrali nella cultura teatrale del primo Novecento, Imola, Cue press, 2016 (I ed. Bologna, Il Mulino, 1988) Elena Cervellati, La danza in scena. Storia di un'arte dal Medioevo a oggi, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2009; Elena Cervellati, Théophile Gautier e la danza. La rivelazione del corpo nel balletto del XIX secolo, Bologna, CLUEB, 2007 Annamaria Corea, Raccontar danzando. Forme del balletto inglese nel Novecento, Roma, Sapienza Università Editrice, 2017 (free edition online: http://www.editricesapienza.it/node/7648) Vito Di Bernardi, Cosa può la danza. Saggio sul corpo, Bulzoni editore, Roma 2012 Marinella Guatterini, L'Abc del balletto, Mondadori, Milano, 2006 Concetta Lo Iacono, Il danzatore attore da Noverre a Pina Bausch, Dino Audino editore, Roma 2007 Alessandro Pontremoli, La danza. Storia, teoria, estetica nel Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2008 Madison U. Sowell, Debra H. Sowell, Francesca Falcone, Patrizia Veroli, Icônes du Ballet Romantique. Marie Taglioni et sa famille, Gremese, Roma 2016Type of delivery of the course
Lectures : Powerpoint Presentations with multimedia slides or Readings (see Textbooks)Attendance
NON-MANDATORY FREQUENCY Attending students (with at least 7 lessons) For non-attending students see the programType of evaluation
ASSESSMENT - CONDUCT OF THE ORAL EXAMINATION The interview will focus on the texts and videos required to be viewed in full (not limited to some extracts on the web). The knowledge of the choreographies indicated above (available not only on Youtube but also in our Library, via Ostiense 139) will be verified through the mentioned interview. We recommend the wise use of internet sources for research (or ask our librarians about databases, official sites, specific journals) finding only the ones that are reliable and useful, and with good bibliographies. The use of summaries and notes on the web might be actually misleading to students. The punctual connections between the texts and the choreographies (videos, films or theatre performances) are instead well appreciated. Finally, we recommend to check on the web the exact pronunciation of the proper names and the ballets titles in the original language; otherwise, the Italian translation is preferable. concetta.loiacono@uniroma3.it