Modern Dance and “danses apaches” in Italian Silent Cinema

Stacia Napierkowska in “Dans l’Hellade” (Charles Decroix, 1909).

“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