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Féminité et danse
recorded at the CND 4 November 2004
[Women, dancing bodies throughout history] (lecture demonstration – 2004)
What femininity do women’s dancing bodies radiate from the Renaissance to the Baroque period? What norms shaped the posture, the gestures, the looks, the strategies for concealing the female body whether at a ball or on stage? Do the constraints of clothing discipline the body, or is this suggestion amplified in the very stuff of dance: muscle tone, the positions, steps, figures, how one relates to one’s partner, the style, the expression?
Béatrice Massin and Marina Nordera’s dialogue attempts to find answers to these questions by using period choreographies performed by three dancers from the company Fêtes Galantes. Works presented in this lecture demonstration : – Bassa danza Lauro by Laurent de Médicis – Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro, De practica seu arte tripudii vulgare opusculum, XVe siècle, Florence, Bibliothèque Laurenziana – Passo e mezzo by Fabritio Caroso, Nobiltà di dame, Venise, 1600 – Saltarello, choreography by Marina Nordera after a musical popular theme edited by Gasparo Zanetti in 1645 – La Matelotte, choreography by Feuillet, 1706, Marin Marais – Chaconne de Phaëton pour homme – Choreography by Pécour edited by Feuillet in 1704, Lully – Chaconne de Phaëton pour femme – Choreography by Pécour edited by Feuillet in 1704, Lully – Passacaille d’Armide – Choreography by Pécour, edited by Gaudrau in 1713, Lully – Musette de Callirhoé – Choreography by Pécour, edited by Gaudrau in 1713, Destouches – Musette d’Alcina, choreography Béatrice Massin, Haendel
Credits
lecturers Béatrice Massin, Marina Nordera with Compagnie Fêtes Galantes Béatrice Aubert, Laura Brembilla, Jean-Marc Piquemal costume design Marie-Claude Garcin a film by Centre national de la danse
running time 98 minutes
Last update : March 2010
