A Modern Dancer’s Primer for Action

Authors

• Rosella Simonari Independent researcher

  Rosella Simonari, PhD is a scholar specialised in dance, literature and culture in general. She has taught the Dance and mime course at the University of Macerata (2003-2007) and has gained a PhD at the University of Essex, UK in 2012. In 2015 she has published the book Letter to the World: Martha Graham danza Emily Dickinson, which was the result of a long research on the North American dancer and choreographer. She has presented papers at conferences in Italy and abroad, has published various peer-reviewed articles and has contributed to the rediscovery of dancer painter Alberto Spadolini on whom she is about to complete a monograph. She writes the texts for the podcast Scissure, on the world seen through the lenses of dance, project done in collaboration with Hexperimenta. 

• Martha Graham