by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | May 1, 2018 | Senza categoria
In the Olympus of Hindu deities, Shiva represents the creative and destructive force. These aspects are emphasized in his dance thanks to which, according to myth, the cosmos is drawn from the primitive chaos and led to creation. It’s dance that generates the...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Apr 28, 2018 | Senza categoria
In every archaic community gesture and dance accomplished two main purposes: the first one consisted of reinforcing the conditions of a participated social life in common. This goal was reached, on occasion of feasts and ceremonies, precisely thanks to the rhythmical...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Apr 26, 2018 | Senza categoria
“Ring-a-ring o’ roses, A pocket full of posies, Ashes! Ashes!, We all fall down.” A singsong like this, which I also sang more than fifty years ago, is still performed in several places of Europe, even if less and less frequently, by children who...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Apr 25, 2018 | Senza categoria
As many scholars of dance disciplines well know, just leafing through the contents of any dance history treatise is enough to realize that, to date, only seldom the research has been able to go beyond the chronological limit that separates History from Prehistory...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Feb 7, 2018 | Senza categoria
Paper presented at Convegno Internazionale “L’ARTE RUPESTRE DELLE ALPI”, Capo di Ponte – Valcamonica – Giovedì 21-domenica 24 ottobre 2010. Summary The anthropomorphic figure, represented in different body positions, is already...
