SILENT CHIT CHATS on Spotify
SILENT CHIT CHATS – a W.I.S.S.PE.R. series is also available on Spotify (sound-only version). Scan the QR code or click on the player to listen!
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Immaginario dantesco e danze infernali
“Immaginario dantesco e danze infernali. La rappresentazione della Divina Commedia attraverso la danza e il gesto coreografico nel cinema muto“ (Italian language), La Valle dell’Eden – Quaderni, No. 1 (2023). “Dance spreads knowledge as far as it conveys a different culture, either in terms of geographical origins or in terms of social level. It is […]
Read moreThe “New Woman” Is a Dancer
“The ‘New Woman’ Is a Dancer. Asta Nielsen’s screendances as a vehicle for the depiction of the new woman”, Imago, No. 26 (2024). More information available at this link. “Asta Nielsen’s screendances were either a mirror/document of the concurrent choreographic trends (and so of the new women dancing them) or acts of insubordination (against the patriarchal society), […]
Read moreOur Fellows in the Spotlight : Elisa Uffreduzzi
Elisa Uffreduzzi, Principal Investigator of W.I.S.S.PE.R. project, got interviewed in the framework of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Postdoctoral programme IF@ULB. You can find the text of the interview here.
Read moreDance and Futurism in Italian Silent Cinema
Dance and Futurism in Italian Silent Cinema, in “Futurist Cinema. Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film”, edited by Rossella Catanese. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017, pp. 89-101. “Ileana Leonidoff was a performer as well as a theorist: in April 1918, she published her own artistic manifesto in the magazine Il Mondo, entitled Il mimodramma, exposing her […]
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