Prima del Traité? Alternative possibili per lo studio della corporeità del primo Ottocento

• Main Author: Bruno Ligore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Università di Parma 2019-12-01
• Series: Ricerche di S/Confine
• Subjects: danza teatrale; carlo blasis; jacques-nicolas paillot de montabert; jean aumer; andré jean-jacques deshayes
• Online Access: https://www.ricerchedisconfine.info/dossier-5/LIGORE.htm

The article aims to explore alternative ways to approach theatrical dance research between the XVIIIth and the XIXth centuries, despite of the lack of technical manuals published at the time. A special relationship with the rediscovery of classical antiquity influenced creative processes which are, in theatrical dance, linked to connoisseurship practice and the perception of classical iconography through technique, aesthetic and moral values. In addition to Blasis’ unmissable work for dance practice knowledge in this period (Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse, 1820) the author gives a glimpse of some understimate works: Théorie du geste (1813) of painter Jacques-Nicolas Paillot de Montabert, and some exemples of choreographical tools made by Jean Aumer and André Jean- Jacques Deshayes (1800-1823).