Modern Dance and “danses apaches” in Italian Silent Cinema

“Chorégraphies modernes et danses apaches dans le cinéma muet italien”, in Le Cinéma muet italien à la croisée des arts, edited by Céline Gailleurd, Paris-Dijon, ArTeC – les presses du réel, 2022, pp. 138-159. [French language] Open access edition available at this link.
“The art of dance is at the service of the recognizability of a genre – the film d’art – and it is, as such, one of its constituting elements.”
Elisa Uffreduzzi