Università Roma Tre

The course will observe developments and transformations of modern and contemporary Western dance, starting with the search for a new expressiveness that animated the German dance scene in the first half of the 20th century up to the innovative creations, from the 1970s, of dance-theatre.

1) Eugenia Casini Ropa, "La danza e l'agitprop: i teatri-non-teatrali nella cultura tedesca del primo Novecento", Bologna, il Mulino, 1988 - up to p. 122 (Foreword and chapters 1. Tre casi and 2. Kõrperseele: il corpo anima). A new edition of the volume is also available, Cue Press 2015, in book or e-book.
2) Elena Cervellati, "Storia della danza", II edition, Milano-Torino, Pearson, 2020.
3) Handouts and videos.

Not-attending students will add:
4) Susanne Franco, "Martha Graham", Palermo, L'Epos, 2003.
or Marta Graham, La memoria del sangue. Un'autobiografia, Roma, Audino, 2022.