ABSTRACT
The essay traces the path of Italian research on dance starting from the first pioneering works of the 1970s and 1980s, conducted by experts of dance history and by professors of the National Academy of Dance, to continue with the works promoted within the universities where the History of dance has been included starting from 1991. The essay continues by reporting the most recent trends imported from abroad regarding ‘The Body as Archive, ‘reenactment’, and ‘gender’, which have taken hold in particular academic circles; then examines research on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries conducted according to other lines of research. Regarding the eighteenth century, the essay acknowledges the work already carried out by scholars and specialized journals, but it also reveals the many aspects still to be investigated, and choreographers, dancers, ballerinas, ballets to be rediscovered – both French and Italian. Regarding the nineteenth century, the essay highlights the main objectives and research methods, but also the numerous questions still to be explored and the interpretative difficulties that remain to be resolved.R esearch on the twentieth century is, on the other hand, considered the most mature and structured. Both that which concerns the Italian ‘modern’ experiences suggested by the ‘revolution’ of free dance during the Fascist period, and that which is interested in the use of new technologies, embodied knowledge; the study of videodance, as a particular form of media expression, and so on.
BIOGRAFIA
Flavia Pappacena, dal 1974 al 2012 professoressa di Teoria della danza presso l’Accademia Nazionale di Danza, dal 2006 insegna Estetica della danza e Teoria della danza anche alla Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università La Sapienza. Direttore, dal 1993, della rivista di ricerca sulla danza «Chorégraphie», ha pubblicato numerosi testi a carattere teorico-storico quali Il Trattato di danza di Carlo Blasis (1820-1830) (LIM, 2005), La danza classica. Le origini (Laterza, 2009), Il Linguaggio della danza classica. Guida all’interpretazione delle fonti iconografiche (Gremese, 2012), La danza classica tra arte e scienza (Gremese, 2021), Storia della danza e del balletto, vol. 2: Il Settecento e l’Ottocento (Gremese, 2019). Ha inoltre curato la pubblicazione di numerosi testi storici. Tra questi: Excelsior. Documenti e saggi (Di Giacomo, 1998), La Sténochorégraphie di A. Saint-Léon (LIM, 2006), Programmi di balletti. Selezione di libretti 1751-1776 di J.-G. Noverre (Audino, 2009), Lettres sur la danse, sur les ballets et les arts (1803) di J.-G. Noverre (LIM, 2012).
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