Rituali, schemata e suoni nelle epifanie divine. Un approccio archeologico alla Performance

Authors

  • Angela Bellia Institute of Heritage Science at the Italian National Research Council

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/2240-5380/10.2020.29

Keywords:

Dance Performances, Archaeological Approach to Dance, Epiphany, Demeter, Nymphs, Ritual Dance

Abstract

Representations of dance performances around statues are spread across a broad geographical space and a wide chronological spectrum in the ancient world. Yet it is only recently that these groups of dancers have been incorporated into the body of sources and documentation for the study of ancient dance within an archaeological approach to dance performances. This research field adopts an anthropological-religious approach, allowing us to explore the relationship between dance performances and cults and rituals. Furthermore, the study of archaeological evidence concerning dance as well as the context of its discovery sheds light on the function of dance performances in ancient societies in order to reconstruct the role of dance in the past. Taking into account this approach, this paper aims to investigate the representations of dancer groups around statues depicted and/or carved on various media. Moreover, the relationship between dance performances related to the deities of fertility, birth, and marriage will be investigated.

Author Biography

  • Angela Bellia, Institute of Heritage Science at the Italian National Research Council

    Angela Bellia is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Heritage Science at the Italian National Research Council. Her work involves the fields of archaeomusicology, ancient sound studies, archaeology of dance, and digital heritage. Thanks to the first Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, she carried out her research at the Institute of Fine Arts at the New York University, devoting her attentions towards the reconstruction of the performative dimension of an ancient Greek polis in the West. More recently, thanks to the second Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, she carried out her research devoting her attentions towards archaeology of sound as a new approach in the study of intangible cultural heritage. At present, she is the principal investigator of the project Sonic Heritage and the Chair of the Archaeomusicology and Dance Interest Group of the Archaeological Institute of America.

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Published

2021-01-14

Issue

Vol. 10 (2020)

Section

Saggi

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Rituali, schemata e suoni nelle epifanie divine. Un approccio archeologico alla Performance. (2021). Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, 10, 29. https://doi.org/10.6092/2240-5380/10.2020.29

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