by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Apr 1, 2019 | Senza categoria
“After arriving in Delo while he was returning from Crete … Theseus danced with the young Athenians a dance still performed by the inhabitants of the island, consisting of twisting and twisted movements that reproduce the shapes of the labyrinth....
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Jan 13, 2019 | Senza categoria
In “L’outil photographique et l’ètude de la danse antique” (https://journals.openedition.org/inha/468, 2013) the French researcher Audrey Gouy illustrates a method of investigating, the “Reconstructionism”, (thanks to a particular...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Dec 17, 2018 | Senza categoria
The Ghillie Callum is one of the oldest Scottish sword dances. The myth tells that Prince Ghillie Callum, the Celtic hero of the Battle of Dunsinane (1054), after killing one of the enemy commanders placed his sword on the ground and crossed it together with that of...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Dec 4, 2018 | Senza categoria
Curt Sachs states that each circular dance has a magical object in the center. In the case of prehistoric matriarchal cultures in the center lies a pit, but also a bowl, which according to Neumann, is a symbol of the mother’s womb and fertility of the earth. In...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Nov 27, 2018 | Senza categoria
Reading the book “Morphology of the fairy tale” (Vladimir Propp, 1929), my attention was prompted by some passages of 20th century European popular literature, in which we can find the same conception of the tripartite universe (or quadripartite) that...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Nov 15, 2018 | Senza categoria
Like the gesture of the Cosmic Man in which the arms are turned to the sky, even the gesture with the arms open and parallel to the ground, which the French esoteric philosopher Renè Guenon attributes to the Universal Man, is widespread in every time and place. This...
