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Writing about dance and the codifying of gestures in the Renaissance  (2022)

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:
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. XXX2022pp. 395-406

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