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 . . .

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The Dante Project at the Paris Opera Ballet: Moving across Media

Photo: The Dante Project, Opera National de Paris, Germain Louvet (Dante) and Hanna O’Neill (Beatrice). Act Two. (© Ann Ray/OnP). Courtesy of Opera National de Paris. More than a century ago, in his essay “On the Anniversary Celebration of Dante,” the legendary literary critic Erich Auerbach, observed that, “Dante is far from . . .

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