La danza nel futurismo: la sensibilità corporea di Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Abstract

Critics have considered Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s only point of contact with dance to be the manifesto La danza futurista (1917). However, I will show how his particularly acute physical sensibility laid the foundations for the creation of futuristic dance. In a reinterpretation of his manifestos, I wish to highlight his perception of the body and invention of a new dance art. As a result, it becomes clear that, for Marinetti, dance was an expression of hope, joy, desire to break with the past and a longing to leap: dance as a prelude to flight.