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.
teacher profile teaching materials
2) Elena Cervellati, "Storia della danza", II edition, Milano-Torino, Pearson, 2020.
3) Handouts and videos.
Not-attending students will add:
4) Susanne Franco, "Martha Graham", Palermo, L'Epos, 2003.
or Marta Graham, La memoria del sangue. Un'autobiografia, Roma, Audino, 2022.
Programme
The course will observe developments and transformations of modern and contemporary Western dance, starting with the search for a new expressiveness that animated the German dance scene in the first half of the 20th century up to the innovative creations, from the 1970s, of dance-theatre.Core Documentation
1) Eugenia Casini Ropa, "La danza e l'agitprop: i teatri-non-teatrali nella cultura tedesca del primo Novecento", Bologna, il Mulino, 1988 - up to p. 122 (Foreword and chapters 1. Tre casi and 2. Kõrperseele: il corpo anima). A new edition of the volume is also available, Cue Press 2015, in book or e-book.2) Elena Cervellati, "Storia della danza", II edition, Milano-Torino, Pearson, 2020.
3) Handouts and videos.
Not-attending students will add:
4) Susanne Franco, "Martha Graham", Palermo, L'Epos, 2003.
or Marta Graham, La memoria del sangue. Un'autobiografia, Roma, Audino, 2022.
Reference Bibliography
Tanztheater dalla danza espressionista a Pina Bausch, ed. by Leonetta Bentivoglio, Roma, Di Giacomo, 1982. Susanne Schlicher, L'avventura del Tanz Theater. Storia, spettacoli, protagonisti, Genova, Costa&Nolan, 1989. Alle origini della danza moderna, a cura di Eugenia Casini Ropa, Bologna, il Mulino, 1990. La generazione danzante. L'arte del movimento in Europa nel primo Novecento, ed. by Silvia Carandini e Elisa Vaccarino, Roma, Di Giacomo, 1997. Jennifer Homans, Apollo's Angels. A History of Ballet, Granta Books (GB) Random House (USA), 2010. Susan Manning, Mary Wigman e la danza tedesca del primo Novecento, ed. by Patrizia Veroli, Roma, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, 2016.Attendance
Classroom and distance learning, but classroom attendance is strongly recommended.Type of evaluation
Colloquium on the materials and texts studied.