Per un’edizione critica della danza: riflessioni metodologiche e applicative

Abstract

The article aims at describing how a dance critical edition can be produced and how that of Marius Petipa-Riccardo Drigo’s Harlequinade (St. Petersburg, Mariinskij, 1900) is concretely being devised. The work is mainly based on apographical manuscript sources. The edition model, which is multi-textual, will be critical-genetic. The choreographic and musical versions we aim at transcribing as the basic text are the oldest possible versions of those actually staged in St. Petersburg.

The article deals with a number of theoretical and applicative problems that may be useful for the elaboration of future dance critical editions.