Publications

Authors:

Arcangeli, Alessandro

Title:

Writing about dance and the codifying of gestures in the Renaissance

Year:

2022

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

MICROLOGUS

ISSN of journal:

1123-2560

N° Volume:

XXX

Page numbers:

395-406

Keyword:

Renaissance dance, gesture, réduction en art

Short description of contents:

A variety of texts, starting from the middle of the fifteenth century, assumed the task of describing and prescribing the posture and body movements expected in the practice of dance in a courtly context. The relative novelty of such well-defined discourse in relation to a dimension of human experience that until then had no consolidated vocabulary – neither within a written technical tradition nor in common language – made available, even to a non-specialist public, a wealth of terms that were rich in nuances and potential uses, even beyond their reference object and specific origin. While that writing practice, in itself, was also driven by a project of réduction en art, the heuristic enterprise – pioneered by Michael Baxandall – of reading painting through the lens of choreutic language has an emic foundation in the culture of the epoch. As the literature that defines court etiquette clearly shows, it also lends itself to being extended to other areas of the behaviour of the elite.

Product ID:

125240

Handle IRIS:

11562/1059360

Last Modified:

October 19, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Arcangeli, Alessandro, Writing about dance and the codifying of gestures in the Renaissance «MICROLOGUS» , vol. XXX , 2022 , pp. 395-406

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