Author Archives: Elisa

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 […]

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The “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), […]

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Our 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.

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Dance 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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