Introduzione

Authors

• Elena Cervellati University of Bologna
  Elena Cervellati is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna (Italy), where she teaches Dance History and Dance Theories. Her research touch on ballet in the first half of the 19th century, the dance scene in Italy from the 1970s, the relations between words and the dancing body, and screendance. Her most recent publications are Giselle in Italia. Migrazioni e traduzioni del balletto romantico nell’Ottocento (2024), and, with Silvia Garzarella, Danza, schermi e visori. Contaminazioni digitali nella scena italiana (2024). From 1997 to 2002 she was the manager of the Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni.
• Elena Randi University of Bologna

  Elena Randi is Full Professor of Performing Arts at the University of Bologna.

  Among her writings, her monographs dedicated to François Delsarte are particularly noteworthy. She is a specialist in Romantic performing arts, to which she dedicated several volumes, including Il teatro romantico, Laterza 2016. Her most recent books concern the history of dance between the 19^th and 20^th centuries: Il corpo pensato. Teorie della danza del Novecento, 2020, La grande stagione del balletto russo, 2022, and La storia di “Giselle”. Due secoli di metamorfosi, 2025. Over the last twelve years thereabouts, she developed a prototype of dance critical edition, which she continues to refine.