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Choreologica articles
Choreologica, the journal of the European Association for Dance History, aims to provide a forum for historical and theoretical explorations of dance histories and practices. These may include analyses of individual works or investigations, whether they may be monographic, contextual or interdisciplinary. Submissions may address topics ranging from past dance practices to contemporary themes.
Following our new resolution, all past and future issues of Choreologica will be made fully accessible to the general public, no longer requiring a membership for access.
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We will gradually make each single paper available for individual download and provide a search facility for easily locating papers by author or keyword. Until that is fully functional, please browse in this page the new papers published from December 2024.
Choreodromocracy: (to)dance like a slow fight zone in the face of speed’s war
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by Thiago Alixandre
Abstract:
There is such an explicit relationship between movement and war that, for this very reason, sometimes it becomes implicit: this extreme exposure numbs us to the point that we fail to realize the relationship between movement and war, speed and power.
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War depends on movements. More than that: war depends on fast movements.
Perhaps the relationship between war and speed is still not as visible as it should be even though the human body is the battlefield in which this relationship takes place, ‘detonating’ processes, ‘exploding’ symptoms, ‘targeting’ cognition and ‘annihilating’ subjectivity.
This paper proposes the hypothesis that the body, and specially a dancing one, can contribute to the expansion of this visibility. We will also try to demonstrate how choreographers have experimented with certain procedures as antidotes to this problem throughout dance history.
“Turumbé con la turumbela; vamos bailando la tantarantela”:
Presence of the tarantella dance in Spain
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By Pilar Montoya Chica
Abstract:
This piece aims to be an exploration of one of the most emblematic dances in southern Europe, the tarantella.
Although of Italian origin, the tarantella in Spain had a wide diffusion due to geographical and political phenomena and because of the use of this dance as a healing remedy. The connection of the Kingdom of Naples with the Spanish Crown until 1861 and links between Naples with the important Mediterranean harbours such as Mallorca, Valencia or Barcelona, were decisive events that promoted the practice of the tarantella in the Iberian Peninsula.
To analyse in depth the process of immersion and assimilation of this dance in Spain that led to the so called “Tarantism”, historical dictionaries, choreographic, musical, theatrical and iconographic sources, as well as studies of contemporary authors specialized in this matter will be consulted.
The analysis of the tarantella will focus on parameters such as musical characteristics, instruments used, texts, prototypical characters involved in its execution, more recurrent body movements, contexts and places where it was developed or the possible relationships with other dances such as the jota, the zapateado or the fandango.
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