AIRD-cv soci B.Sparti

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 Fiorentino. 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 della University of California Los Angeles nel 1990; "guest lecturer" all'Università di Tel-Aviv, all'Hebrew University; alla Rubin Academy di Musica e Danza a Gerusalemme (1997), alla University of California Santa Cruz (2000) e alla Princeton University (in residence, aprile 2002). Fa parte del direttivo della Fondazione Italiana di Musica Antica. Nel 2009 è stata insignita dall'Accademia del Lauro di Valladolid del titolo "virtuosissima", e nel maggio 2011 il volume “Virtute et Arte del Danzare”. Contributi di Storia della danza in onore di Barbara Sparti, a cura di Alessandro Pontremoli, è stato presentato con un solenne festeggiamento al Salone Borromini ed in seguito presentato all'American Academy della stessa città. È responsabile per la ricostruzione (Urbino 2010, Ferrara 2011) della complessa e bellissima coreografia Martel d’amore di Leone Tolosa ebreo recentemente riportata in luce (vedi K. Bosi, "Leone Tolosa and Martel d'amore: a balletto della duchessa discovered", Recercare, XVII, 2005, pp. 5-70). Di futura pubblicazione, Le Ballet comique de la Reine: Danza e Storiografia, in Buckley, A., Cyrus, C. (cur.), Festschrift for Ingrid Brainard.

CURATELE

Guglielmo Ebreo. De pratica seu arte tripudi (1463), Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993 (2. ed., 1995). Tradotto in inglese e introdotto dalla curatrice (4 capitoli, pp. 3-79).

Ballo della Gagliarda di Lutio Compasso (Firenze, 1560), Freiburg, fa-gisis Musik-und Tanzedition, 1995 (edizione anastatica introdotta dalla curatrice, pp. 5-27).

Mastro da Ballo di Ercole Santucci Perugino (1614), Hildesheim, Olms Verlag, 2004 (edizione anastatica). Introdotto e commentato dalla curatrice (7 capitoli, pp. 1-97).

(con Van Zile, J.) Imaging Dance: Visual Representations of Dancers and Dancing, Hildesheim, Olms Verlag, 2011.

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”, in I Farnese: trecento anni di storia. Atti del convegno (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 Dance and Ancient Greece, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Dance Research, (Athens, Dora Stratou Dance Theatre), vol. 1, 1991, pp. 141-150 (Vol. II, pp. 147-156).

“The Tale of the 3 Contrapassi in Quadernaria”, in The Marriage of Music and Dance, Papers of the National Early Music Association Conference (London, 1991), Cambridge, NEMA, 1992, pagine non numerate.

"'Baroque Or Not Baroque - Is That the Question?' or Dance in 17th-century Italy", in L'arte della danza ai tempi di Claudio Monteverdi, Atti del convegno internazionale (Torino, 1993) Torino, Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, 1996, pp. 73-93.

(con Sutton, J.) “Ballo-balletto" e "Saltarello", in Cohen, S. J. (cur.), International Encyclopedia of Dance, New York, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 351-355.

“Early Dance Research and Performance: Past, Present and Future”, in Parsons, D. (cur), in On Common Ground, 2: Continuity and Change, Proceedings of the Second Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society Conference (London, 1998), London, DHDS, 1998, pp. 5-26.

Introduzione alla tavola rotonda “Mattaccino-Moresca: Past and Present” e “The Moresca and Mattaccino in Italy—circa 1450-1630”, in Tercio, D. (cur.), Continents In Movement: The Meeting of Cultures in Dance History, Proceedings of the International Conference (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa), Oeiras, fMH Ediçoes, 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, pp. 103-110.

"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, S. G. (cur.), The Most Ancient of Minorities. The Jews of Italy, Westport, Conn. & 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, pp. 1-11.

“An analytical and comparative study of an 18th-Century Venetian moresca”, in Symposium Moreska: Past and Present (Korcula 2001), Proceedings, Zagreb, Institute of Ethnology and Folkore Research, 2002, pp. 50-66.

“Improvisation and Embellishment in Popular and Art Dances in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Italy”, in McGee, T. J. (cur.), Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance,Kalamazoo, MI, Western Michigan University, 2003, pp. 117-144 (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series 30).

“Humanism and the Arts: Parallels between Alberti's On Painting and Guglielmo Ebreo's On...Dancing”, in McIver, K. 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, pp. 31-54.

"The Masks in the Dance Etchings of Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (Bologna 1634-1718)", in Wilson, D. (cur.), Masks, Masques and Masquerades: a Living Tradition, Proceedings of the EDC Conference, London, Early Dance Circle), 2006, pp. 23-29.

“Isabella and the Dancing Este Brides, 1473-1514”, in Brooks, L. (cur.) Women Making Dance in Early Modern Europe. Studies in Dance History, Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 2007, pp. 19-48.

"An 18th-Century Venetian Moresca. Popular Dance, Pyrrhic, or Regulated Competition", in Schlottermüller, U., Weiner, H., Richter, M.(cur.), 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 Epp, M., Power, B.E. (cur.), The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Early Music, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009, pp. 211-228.

"'Oh, East Is East, and West Is West, and Never the Twain Shall Meet'. La ricerca teorica e la pratica della danza storica: strade divergenti?", in Nocilli, C., Pontremoli, A. (cur.), La disciplina coreologica in Europa. Problemi e prospettive, Roma, Aracne, 2010, pp. 153-167.

“Chastisement and Celebration: Dance in Papal Bologna in the Etchings of G. M. Mitelli (1634-1718)”, in Sparti, B., Van Zile, J. (cur.), Imaging Dance: Visual Representations of Dancers and Dancing, Hildesheim, Olms, 2011, pp. 149-180.

"Jewish Dancing-Masters and 'Jewish Dance' in Renaissance Italy. Guglielmo Ebreo and Beyond" [expanded and updated], in Brin Ingber, J. (cur.), Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2011, pp. 235-250.

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.

“Rôti Bouilli: Take Two El Gioioso Fiorito”, Studi Musicali, XXIV, n. 2, 1995, pp. 231-261.

(con Veroli, P.) “Dance Research in Italy”, Dance Research Journal (CORD), 27/2, Fall 1995, pp. 73-77 (per la serie “Research in Dance: Worldwide”).

“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, L, 1996, pp. 135-165.

"Jewish Dancing-Masters and 'Jewish Dance' in Renaissance Italy (Guglielmo Ebreo and Beyond)", Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review, 20, 1-2, 2000, pp. 11-23.

“'Artistic Theory of Dance in Fifteenth-Century Italy”, in Yearbook for Traditional Music, 35, 2003, pp. 183-185.

"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, n. 1-2, 2008, pp. 39-51.

RECENSIONI, RESOCONTI

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, 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.

“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.

Kirkendale, W., Emilio de' Cavalieri, "Gentiluomo Romano" (Firenze Olschki, 2001) in Dance Chronicle, Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, , 25/2, 2002, pp. 303-309.

Harris-Warrick, R., Brown, B. A. (cur.), The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage. Gennaro Magri and His World, , in Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, XLI, 2006, no. 1, pp.192-196.

“The Fourth Conference of the European Association of Dance Historians” (Turin, Italy, 1993), Dance Research Journal (CORD), 26/1, Spring 1994, pp. 41-44.

CONFERENZE, SEMINARI

"Moresca and Mattaccino: Where Are the Spanish Antecedents? Where Aare the Moors?", in Fusion & Confusion, European Association of Dance Historians, Sevilla, 23-24 settembre, 2010.

"Courtiers and 'Court Dance': To Leap or not to Leap", Lectio Magistralis, conferimento di "virtuosissima", Academia del Lauro, Universidad de Valladolid, ott. 2009.

"Pantomimic Ballets: An Italian Tradition: The Multi-faceted Moresca", Annual Lecture, Early Dance Circle, London, feb. 2010.

"The Danced Moresca (and Mattaccino): Multiformity of a Genre. From Palaces of Cardinals and Popes to Artisans' Enactments in the Streets of 17th-Century Rome", Early Modern Rome 1341-1667, conference, Association of American College and University Programs in Italy e The University of California, Rome Study Center, mag. 2010.

“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 feb. 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 mar. 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 apr. 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.

“’Peace, Peace, No More War, Joy in Heaven and Earth’--the Papal States' War against the Turk: Music and Dance in Papal Bologna in the Etchings of G. M. Mitelli 1634-1718”, in Le corti in Europa. Iconografia musicale e potere principesco, convegno internazionale organizzato dall’International Musicological Society e dallo Study Group on Musical Iconography, Torino, 23-25 mag. 2011.

	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 Fiorentino. 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 della University of California Los Angeles nel 1990; "guest lecturer" all'Università di Tel-Aviv, all'Hebrew University; alla Rubin Academy di Musica e Danza a Gerusalemme (1997), alla University of California Santa Cruz (2000) e alla Princeton University (in residence, aprile 2002). Fa parte del direttivo della Fondazione Italiana di Musica Antica. Nel 2009 è stata insignita dall'Accademia del Lauro di Valladolid del titolo "virtuosissima", e nel maggio 2011 il volume “Virtute et Arte del Danzare”. Contributi di Storia della danza in onore di Barbara Sparti, a cura di Alessandro Pontremoli, è stato presentato con un solenne festeggiamento al Salone Borromini ed in seguito presentato all'American Academy della stessa città. È responsabile per la ricostruzione (Urbino 2010, Ferrara 2011) della complessa e bellissima coreografia Martel d’amore di Leone Tolosa ebreo recentemente riportata in luce (vedi K. Bosi, "Leone Tolosa and Martel d'amore: a balletto della duchessa discovered", Recercare, XVII, 2005, pp. 5-70). Di futura pubblicazione, Le Ballet comique de la Reine: Danza e Storiografia, in Buckley, A., Cyrus, C. (cur.), Festschrift for Ingrid Brainard. CURATELE Guglielmo Ebreo. De pratica seu arte tripudi (1463), Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993 (2. ed., 1995). Tradotto in inglese e introdotto dalla curatrice (4 capitoli, pp. 3-79). Ballo della Gagliarda di Lutio Compasso (Firenze, 1560), Freiburg, fa-gisis Musik-und Tanzedition, 1995 (edizione anastatica introdotta dalla curatrice, pp. 5-27). Mastro da Ballo di Ercole Santucci Perugino (1614), Hildesheim, Olms Verlag, 2004 (edizione anastatica). Introdotto e commentato dalla curatrice (7 capitoli, pp. 1-97). (con Van Zile, J.) Imaging Dance: Visual Representations of Dancers and Dancing, Hildesheim, Olms Verlag, 2011. 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”, in I Farnese: trecento anni di storia. Atti del convegno (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 Dance and Ancient Greece, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Dance Research, (Athens, Dora Stratou Dance Theatre), vol. 1, 1991, pp. 141-150 (Vol. II, pp. 147-156). “The Tale of the 3 Contrapassi in Quadernaria”, in The Marriage of Music and Dance, Papers of the National Early Music Association Conference (London, 1991), Cambridge, NEMA, 1992, pagine non numerate. "'Baroque Or Not Baroque - Is That the Question?' or Dance in 17th-century Italy", in L'arte della danza ai tempi di Claudio Monteverdi, Atti del convegno internazionale (Torino, 1993) Torino, Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, 1996, pp. 73-93. (con Sutton, J.) “Ballo-balletto" e "Saltarello", in Cohen, S. J. (cur.), International Encyclopedia of Dance, New York, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 351-355. “Early Dance Research and Performance: Past, Present and Future”, in Parsons, D. (cur), in On Common Ground, 2: Continuity and Change, Proceedings of the Second Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society Conference (London, 1998), London, DHDS, 1998, pp. 5-26. Introduzione alla tavola rotonda “Mattaccino-Moresca: Past and Present” e “The Moresca and Mattaccino in Italy—circa 1450-1630”, in Tercio, D. (cur.), Continents In Movement: The Meeting of Cultures in Dance History, Proceedings of the International Conference (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa), Oeiras, fMH Ediçoes, 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, pp. 103-110. "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, S. G. (cur.), The Most Ancient of Minorities. The Jews of Italy, Westport, Conn. & 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, pp. 1-11. “An analytical and comparative study of an 18th-Century Venetian moresca”, in Symposium Moreska: Past and Present (Korcula 2001), Proceedings, Zagreb, Institute of Ethnology and Folkore Research, 2002, pp. 50-66. “Improvisation and Embellishment in Popular and Art Dances in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Italy”, in McGee, T. J. (cur.), Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance,Kalamazoo, MI, Western Michigan University, 2003, pp. 117-144 (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series 30). “Humanism and the Arts: Parallels between Alberti's On Painting and Guglielmo Ebreo's On...Dancing”, in McIver, K. 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, pp. 31-54. "The Masks in the Dance Etchings of Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (Bologna 1634-1718)", in Wilson, D. (cur.), Masks, Masques and Masquerades: a Living Tradition, Proceedings of the EDC Conference, London, Early Dance Circle), 2006, pp. 23-29. “Isabella and the Dancing Este Brides, 1473-1514”, in Brooks, L. (cur.) Women Making Dance in Early Modern Europe. Studies in Dance History, Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 2007, pp. 19-48. "An 18th-Century Venetian Moresca. Popular Dance, Pyrrhic, or Regulated Competition", in Schlottermüller, U., Weiner, H., Richter, M.(cur.), 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 Epp, M., Power, B.E. (cur.), The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Early Music, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009, pp. 211-228. "'Oh, East Is East, and West Is West, and Never the Twain Shall Meet'. La ricerca teorica e la pratica della danza storica: strade divergenti?", in Nocilli, C., Pontremoli, A. (cur.), La disciplina coreologica in Europa. Problemi e prospettive, Roma, Aracne, 2010, pp. 153-167. “Chastisement and Celebration: Dance in Papal Bologna in the Etchings of G. M. Mitelli (1634-1718)”, in Sparti, B., Van Zile, J. (cur.), Imaging Dance: Visual Representations of Dancers and Dancing, Hildesheim, Olms, 2011, pp. 149-180. "Jewish Dancing-Masters and 'Jewish Dance' in Renaissance Italy. Guglielmo Ebreo and Beyond" [expanded and updated], in Brin Ingber, J. (cur.), Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2011, pp. 235-250. 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. “Rôti Bouilli: Take Two El Gioioso Fiorito”, Studi Musicali, XXIV, n. 2, 1995, pp. 231-261. (con Veroli, P.) “Dance Research in Italy”, Dance Research Journal (CORD), 27/2, Fall 1995, pp. 73-77 (per la serie “Research in Dance: Worldwide”). “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, L, 1996, pp. 135-165. "Jewish Dancing-Masters and 'Jewish Dance' in Renaissance Italy (Guglielmo Ebreo and Beyond)", Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review, 20, 1-2, 2000, pp. 11-23. “'Artistic Theory of Dance in Fifteenth-Century Italy”, in Yearbook for Traditional Music, 35, 2003, pp. 183-185. "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, n. 1-2, 2008, pp. 39-51. RECENSIONI, RESOCONTI 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, XI, n. 2, Autumn 1993, pp. 78-86. Smith, A. W. 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CONFERENZE, SEMINARI "Moresca and Mattaccino: Where Are the Spanish Antecedents? Where Aare the Moors?", in Fusion & Confusion, European Association of Dance Historians, Sevilla, 23-24 settembre, 2010. "Courtiers and 'Court Dance': To Leap or not to Leap", Lectio Magistralis, conferimento di "virtuosissima", Academia del Lauro, Universidad de Valladolid, ott. 2009. "Pantomimic Ballets: An Italian Tradition: The Multi-faceted Moresca", Annual Lecture, Early Dance Circle, London, feb. 2010. "The Danced Moresca (and Mattaccino): Multiformity of a Genre. From Palaces of Cardinals and Popes to Artisans' Enactments in the Streets of 17th-Century Rome", Early Modern Rome 1341-1667, conference, Association of American College and University Programs in Italy e The University of California, Rome Study Center, mag. 2010. “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 feb. 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 mar. 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 apr. 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. “’Peace, Peace, No More War, Joy in Heaven and Earth’--the Papal States' War against the Turk: Music and Dance in Papal Bologna in the Etchings of G. M. Mitelli 1634-1718”, in Le corti in Europa. Iconografia musicale e potere principesco, convegno internazionale organizzato dall’International Musicological Society e dallo Study Group on Musical Iconography, Torino, 23-25 mag. 2011.
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