Tra l’oggetto e l’immateriale: un equilibrio precario e necessario. Introduzione alla nuova serie

Authors

• Elena Randi University of Bologna

  Elena Randi is Full Professor of Performing Arts at the University of Bologna. Among her writings, her monographs dedicated to François Delsarte are particularly noteworthy. She is a specialist in Romantic performing arts, to which she dedicated several volumes, including Il teatro romantico, Laterza 2016. Her most recent books concern the history of dance between the 19th and 20th centuries: Il corpo pensato. Teorie della danza del Novecento, 2020, La grande stagione del balletto russo, 2022, and La storia di “Giselle”. Due secoli di metamorfosi, 2025. Over the last twelve years thereabouts, she developed a prototype of dance critical edition, which she continues to refine.