by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Jun 28, 2018 | Senza categoria
 Abstract. The most ancient pieces of evidence about dance belong to an extensive corpus of images produced by our ancestors on a variety of objects (shelters, cave walls, rock outcrops, items made in baked clay and metal, pottery), with most diversified...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Jun 24, 2018 | Senza categoria
“When you will be able to play inside the eagle’s bone, then a new world will open up before you and you will be able to see with the eagle’s eyes”. (Nepalese shaman) In the Sun Dance of the Cheyenne the whistles of eagle bone whose sound,...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | May 23, 2018 | Senza categoria
If the dance accomplished in the three dimensions all the potential to carry out the objectives for which it was established (social identity, luck in hunting, fertility of the fields etc.), what could the image possibly add since it’s the least indicated medium...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | May 15, 2018 | Senza categoria
The strength of an image mostly depends on the sacred nature of the support that hosts it. Archaic cultures invest the rock with a supernatural value. This is recognised by a presumed eternity value and its function as mediator between the sky and the Earth. Already...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | May 8, 2018 | Senza categoria
A dance is a formalized act, regulated by unchangeable rules and inserted in a broader context, usually consisting of one or more of the following elements: a rhythmical base produced by hand clapping or by other resonant objects used by the audience, a choral song, a...
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...
