Performance

Douglas Dunn in Italy: Dance, Dancer, and Spectator

Douglas Dunn on the cover of the first edition of Sally Banes’s Terpsichore in Sneakers (1980). Photographer: Robert Alexander. To better understand the origins of contemporary Italian dance, Italian critics, dancers, and choreographers are now examining the American presence in the Italian dance world of the 1970s.[1] In 1969 Fabio Sargentini inaugurated The Danza Volo . . .