Mimesi della natura e ballet d'action. Per un'estetica della danza teatrale.

Translated title of the contribution: [Autom. eng. transl.] Mimesis of nature and ballet d'action. For an aesthetic of theatrical dance.

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Abstract

A research that aims at examining the theatrical dance in the XVIII century is bound to face a problematic crux: the research object is not anymore. Some traces have remained, namely, a series of various materials able to show the causality of the cause – the vacant object – but not its form. The book starts from the revolutionary works by G. Angiolini and J.G. Noverre and goes through different philosophicals texts of authors who were interested in the status of the gesture; it questions the bunch of effects which overcame the ballet d’action in order to look into the dance as a form of art and knowledge within the wider system of representation. Particularly, the research wants to show as the negative sign which marks this discipline and the XVIII critical debate on it has to be referred to the essential expressive nature of the gesture which led to a progressive shifting of the classic paradigm of the mimesis of nature from being “imitative-reproductive” to become “expressive-creative”.
Translated title of the contribution[Autom. eng. transl.] Mimesis of nature and ballet d'action. For an aesthetic of theatrical dance.
Original languageItalian
PublisherFabrizio Serra Editore
Number of pages212
ISBN (Print)978-88-6227-456-2
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Publication series

NameBiblioteca di drammaturgia

Keywords

  • Eighteenth Century
  • action
  • aesthetics
  • azione
  • ballet
  • balletto
  • dance
  • danza
  • estetica
  • gesto
  • gesture
  • settecento
  • teatro
  • theatre

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