Dancing in the Dionysian Mysteries
In ancient Greece, dancing had a central civilian, artistic, pedagogical, and ritual function. It was present in all the “Mysteries” of...
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Bianca Pasquinelli
- 5 min
Kandinsky and the dance of the future
In the twenty years between 1908 and 1928, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), considered one of the pioneers and fathers of Abstractism...
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Matteo Mascolo
- 4 min
Momentum and Dance
Momentum and inertia are fundamental components of physics and a dancing body, even if it may seek anti-gravity concepts on movement...
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Bianca Pasquinelli
- 4 min
Dance and Mindfulness
Mindfulness practices have spread in the Western World since the 70's and they have become internationally popular in the past decade...
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Matteo Mascolo
- 5 min
Modern and Contemporary Dance
Let’s start from 1661. What most matter in classical ballet are positions, attitudes and predetermined combinations of them. The movement...
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Matteo Mascolo
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Contact Improvisation
Was initially developed in the USA during the first half of ‘70s by a group of dancers guided by Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith. Its...
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