“L’arte di parlare danzando”. Gasparo Angiolini e la Dissertazione sui balli pantomimi degli antichi

Stefania Onesti

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1599/1638

“The art of dancing words”. Gasparo Angiolini and the Dissertation on pantomime ballets of the ancients

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Stefania Onesti
She graduated in Florence in DAMS and in Bologna in Discipline Teatrali - curriculum danza with a thesis titled La «danza parlante». Poetics of the pantomime ballet through the writings of Gasparo Angiolini. She studied dance at the Scuola del Balletto di Toscana and she gained a scholarship for the specialization course promoted by Mimesis MaggioArte - Teatro Comunale di Firenze under the direction of Elisabetta Terabust. In Bologna she writes and works for the publication “Danza e Ricerca” and she teaches ballet.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1599/1638

Abstract

In 1765 Gasparo Angiolini presented his tragic pantomime ballet Semiramide, accompanying it with an explanatory programme. The Dissertation sur les Ballets Pantomimes des Anciens gives voice to Angiolini’s first ideas on pantomime ballet. This is the reason why it has to be considered, like other primary sources and documents, an important contribution for the study of the birth and the growth of the ballet d’action. The French text is translated into Italian and it is preceded by some reflections on Angiolini and the reform of pantomime ballet.

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Onesti, S. (2009). “The art of dancing words”. Gasparo Angiolini and the Dissertation on pantomime ballets of the ancients. Danza E Ricerca, 01–34. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1599/1638