“Imparare dai propri allievi”. L’arte del danzatore nelle pagine della rivista «Balletto» (1955-1962)

Abstract

In the European panorama of dance criticism during the Fifties, the reflection around the art of the dancer occupies a central position, weaving together some essential matters as those related to the quality of the fruition and interpretation of ballet or to the different national (and political) identities in dance. Faced with this state of affairs the article investigates the thoughts on the dancer developed by the roman magazine «Balletto» between 1955 and 1962, by analysing, on the one hand, the bonds with English dance criticism and historiography and, on the other hand, by placing the discourses developed in the magazine in the productive and distributive panorama of Italian dance.