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È nata a New York dove ha studiato musica e danza. Si è specializzata nei metodi Orff e Dalcroze a Salisburgo e a Ginevra e ha insegnato musica e movimento a bambini e adulti per più di 40 anni. Ha fondato e diretto il Gruppo di Danza Rinascimentale (1975-1988) che si è esibito in festivals, mostre e congressi nelle maggiori città italiane e europee. Ha curato la coreografia di opere di Caccini, Cavalieri, Gagliano, Monteverdi e del Ruzzante collaborando anche con la RAI e con il Maggio Musicale. Dal 1973 svolge attività didattica pratica con corsi sulla danza italiana del XV-XVII secolo in Italia, Europa, Nord America e Giappone. È stata "Distinguished Visiting Professor" presso la Facoltà di Danza dell'Università della California di Los Angeles nel 1990; "guest lecturer" all'Università di Tel-Aviv, all'Hebrew University; alla Rubin Academy di Musica e Danza a Gerusalemme (1997), all'Università di California - Santa Cruz (2000) e alla Princeton University (in residence, aprile 2002). Fa parte del direttivo della Fondazione Italiana di Musica Antica, ed è coordinatrice del gruppo di studio di Iconografia per il gruppo di Etnocoreologia della International Council of Traditional Music (ITCM). Nel 2009 è stata insignita dall'Accademia del Lauro di Valladolid del titolo "virtuosisima".I suoi "lavori in corso" di futura pubblicazione includono le gagliarde di Salomone Rossi (Ashgate), la scena di danza nella Sala della Pace di Lorenzetti a Siena, i cortigiani e la danza di corte ("Courtiers and "Court Dance": To Leap or not to Leap") e "Le Ballet comique de la Reine: Danza e Storiografia, in Ann Buckley e Cynthis Cyrus (a cura di), Festschrift for Ingrid Brainard, 2008. CURATELE Guglielmo Ebreo. De pratica seu arte tripudi (1463), Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993 (2. ed., 1995) (prefazione all'edizione anastatica) Ballo della Gagliarda di Lutio Compasso (Firenze, 1560), Freiburg, fa-gisis Musik-und Tanzedition, 1995 (introduzione all'edizione anastatica) Mastro da Ballo di Ercole Santucci Perugino (1614), Hildesheim, Olms Verlag, 2004 SAGGI Style and Performance in the Social Dances of the Italian Renaissance: Ornamentation, Improvisation, Variation and Virtuosity, in Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars, Riverside, University of California, 1986, pp. 31-52. Giambattista Dufort and la Danse Noble--Italian Style, in Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars, Riverside, University of California, 1988, pp. 216-232. El baile español en Italia (1490-1700), in III Semana de Musica Española 'El Renacimento', Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, 1988, pp. 183-196. Floridi e Celesti Gigli: i Farnese e la danza, Atti del convegno I Farnese: trecento anni di storia (Gradoli, 1987), Viterbo, Centro di Studi e Ricerche sul Territorio Farnesiano, 1990, pp. 151-160. Questions Concerning the Life and Works of Guglielmo Ebreo, in Padovan, M. (cur.), Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro e la Danza nelle Corti Italiane del XV secolo, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Pesaro, 1987), Pisa, Pacini, 1990, pp. 35-50. Ancient Greek Influences on Italian Renaissance Dance, in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Dance Research, Dance and Ancient Greece (Athens), Athens, Dora Stratou Dance Theatre, Vol. I, 1991, pp. 141-150 (Vol. II, pp. 147-156). The Tale of the 3 Contrapassi in Quadernaria, in Papers of the National Early Music Association Conference, The Marriage of Music and Dance (London, 1991), Cambridge, NEMA, 1992, pagine non numerate. "Baroque or not baroque--is that the question?" or Dance in 17th-century Italy, in Atti del convegno internazionale L'arte della danza ai tempi di Claudio Monteverdi (Torino, 1993), Torino, Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, 1996, pp. 73-93. (con Sutton, Julia) Ballo-balletto" e "Saltarello", in Cohen, S. J. (cur.), International Encyclopedia of Dance, New York, Oxford University Press, 1998. Early Dance Research and Performance: Past, Present and Future, in Parsons, D. (cur), Proceedings of the Second Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society Conference, On Common Ground, 2: Continuity and Change (London, 1998), London, DHDS, 1998, pp. 5-26. Introduzione alla tavola rotonda Mattaccino-Moresca: Past and Present e The Moresca and Mattaccino in Italycirca 1450-1630, in Tercio, D. (cur.), Proceedings of the International Conference Continents In Movement: The Meeting of Cultures in Dance History, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, fMH, 1999, pp. 189-199. Dance Not Only As Text: Getting the Full(er) Picture of Dance in Renaissance & Baroque Italy (c.1455-1630), in Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars, SDHS, 1999, pp. 195-205. Traditional Dance in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (1455-1630), in Proceedings of the 20th Symposium of the Study Group on Ethnochoreology (1998), International Council for Traditional Music, Istanbul, Bogaziçi University, 2000, pp. 171-187. "An 18th-century Venetian moresca" in Proceedings of 21st Symposium of the Study Group on Ethnochoreology, International Council for Traditional Music, Zagreb, Croatia, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, 2001 "La danza come politica al tempo di Machiavelli", in La lingua e le lingue di Machiavelli, Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Torino: Olschki, 2001, pp. 295-313 "Jewish Dancing-Masters and 'Jewish Dance' in Renaissance Italy" in Pugliese, Stanislao G. (cur.), The Most Ancient of Minorities. The Jews of Italy, Wesport, Connecticut & London, Greenwood Press, 2002, pp. 77-89. The Moresca and Mattaccino in Italy--circa 1450-1630, Proceedings Symposium Moreska: Past and Present (Korcula 2001), Zagreb, Institute of Ethnology and Folkore Research, 2002. An analytical and comparative study of an 18th-Century Venetian moresca, in Proceedings Symposium Moreska: Past and Present (Korcula 2001), Zagreb, Institute of Ethnology and Folkore Research, 2002. Improvisation and Embellishment in Popular and Art Dances in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Italy, in McGee, Timothy J. (cur.), Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series 30), Kalamazoo, Michigan, Western Michigan University, 2003, pp. 117-144. Humanism and the Arts: Parallels between Alberti's 0n Painting and Guglielmo Ebreo's 0n...Dancing, in McIver, Katherine A. (cur.), Art and Music in the Early Modern Period. Essays in honor of Franca Trinchieri Camiz, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003, pp. 193-214. (con Carboni, F. e Ziino, A.) Balli to Dance and Play in a Sixteenth-Century Miscellany, in Reardon, C. & Parisi, S. (cur.), Music Observed. Studies in Memory of William C. Holmes, Detroit, Harmonie Park Press, 2004. Isabella and the Dancing Este Brides, 1473-1514, in Brooks, L. (cur.) Women Making Dance in Early Modern Europe. Studies in Dance History, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. "An 18th-Century Venetian Moresca. Popular Dance, Pyrrhic, or Regulated Competition", in U. Schlottermüller, H. Weiner, M. Richter, Vom Schäferidyll zur Revolution. Europäische Tanzkultur im 18. Jahrhundert, Freiburg, "fa-gisis" Musik- und Tanzedition, 2008, pp. 197-218. "Irregular and Asymmetric Galliards; The Case of Salomone Rossi", in The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Early Music, a cura di M. Epp e B. E. Power, Ashgate, 2009, pp. 211-228. ARTICOLI SU PERIODICI Stile, espressione e senso teatrale nelle danze italiane del '400, La Danza Italiana, n. 3, 1985, pp. 39-53. The 15th Century Balli Tunes: A New Look, Early Music, XIV, n. 3, 1986, pp. 346-357. Un francese napoletano e il ballo nobile, La Danza Italiana, n. 7, 1989, pp. 9-29. The 5th International Conference on Dance Research (Athens, Greece, 1991), Dance Research Journal (CORD), 24/1, Spring 1992, pp. 52-54. Antiquity as Inspiration in the Renaissance of Dance: The Classical Connection and Fifteenth-Century Italian Dance, Dance Chronicle, XVI, n. 3, 1993, pp. 373-390. The Fourth Conference of the European Association of Dance Historians (Turin, Italy, 1993), Dance Research Journal (CORD), 26/1, Spring 1994, pp. 41-44. Rôti Bouilli: Take Two El Gioioso Fiorito, Studi Musicali, XXIV, n. 2, 1995, pp. 231-261. (con Patrizia Veroli) Dance Research in Italy, (per la serie Research in Dance: Worldwide), Dance Research Journal (CORD), 27/2, Fall 1995, pp. 73-77. Dance History--Current Methodologies, Dance Research Journal, CORD, 28/1, Spring 1996, pp. 3-4. The Function and Status of Dance in the 15th-century Italian Courts, Dance Research, XIV, n. 1, Summer, 1996, pp. 42-61. Breaking Down Barriers in the Study of Renaissance and Baroque Dance, Dance Chronicle, XIX, n. 3, 1996, pp. 255-276. La danza barocca è soltanto francese?, Studi musicali, XXV, nn. 1-2, 1996, pp. 283-302. Dancing Couples Behind the Scenes: Recently discovered Italian illustrations, 1470-1550, Imago Musicae, XIII, 1996, pp. 9-38. Would You Like To Dance This Frottola? Choreographic Concordances in Two Early Sixteenth-Century Tuscan Sources, Musica Disciplina, vol. L, 1996, pp. 135-165. The 20th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology (August 1998, Istanbul, Turkey), Society of Dance History Scholars Newsletter, XIX, n. 1, Spring 1999, pp. 13-15. Convegno Continents in Movement (Oeiras, Portugal,1998), ICTM [International Council for Traditional Music], Dance Newsletter for Research in Traditional Dance, n. 20, Fall 1999, pp. 5-6. Ethnochoreology Conference in Croatia, Society of Dance History Scholars Newsletter, XX, n. 2, p. 9. "Jewish Dancing-Masters and 'Jewish Dance' in Renaissance Italy (Guglielmo Ebreo and Beyond)", Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review, 20, 1-2, 2000. "Hercules Dancing in Thebes, in Pictures and Music", Early Music History, Vol. 26, 2007, pp. 219-270. "Inspired Movement versus Static Uniformity: A Comparison of Trecento and Quattrocento Dance Images" in Music in Art (International Journal for Music Iconography), Vol. XXXIII, no 1-2, 2008, pp. 39-51. RECENSIONI Wilson, D. R. The Steps Used in Court Dancing in Fifteenth Century Italy, e The Marriage of Music and Dance: Papers from a Conference, in Dance Research, Oxford University Press, XI, n. 2, Autumn 1993, pp. 78-86. Smith, A. W. Fifteenth-Century Dance and Music, in Dance Research Journal (CORD), 29/2, Fall 1997, pp. 101-105. Kirkendale, Warren Emilio de' Cavalieri, "Gentiluomo Romano" (Firenze Olschki, 2001) in Dance Chronicle, 25/2, 2002, pp. 303-309. Harris-Warrick, Rebecca and Brown, Bruce Alan (eds.), The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage. Gennaro Magri and His World, (Studies in Dance History), in Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, 2008. CONFERENZE, SEMINARI The Masks in the Dance Etchings of Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (Bologna 1634-1718), Masks, Masques and masquerades: a living tradition, Early Dance Circle, London, 25 February 2006. Inspired Movement versus Static Uniformity: A Comparison of Trecento and Quattrocento Dance Images, sessione Music, Art, and Life, Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, 23-25 marzo 2006. They Dance Well for Whom Good Fortune Plays: Dance Etchings by G.M. Mitelli (1634-1718), Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, University of Toronto, 20-23 April 2006. "Partitioning the Terrain": The Importance of Space in 15th-century Italian Dance", ICTM Ethnochoreology Study Group, Cluj, Romania, lug. 2006. "Restoration of Dance of the Past", Traces, Atelier de la danse, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, 24-26 nov. 2007. "Antiochus and Stratonice: from the textual imagery of Plutarch to the visual imagery of 15th-century Tuscan wedding-chests", Metamorphoses of Orpheus: Musical Images from Greek Mythology in Antiquity and their revivals in European Art, organized by the International Musicology Society (IMS) Study Group for Musical Iconography in European Art, the Archive of Musical Iconography, Aristotle University of Thessaloniky, and the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University of Corfu, Corfu, 26-29 June, 2008. "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet", Congreso International La Disciplina coreologica en Europa, organizzato da Università di Valladolid ed Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatico de Castilla y Leon, Valladolid, 27-29 novembre 2008. |
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