For dance practices in Italy and the rest of Europe, the 16th century was a time of change. Perhaps more appropriate would be to adopt the Italian term used in treatises of the time – mutanze – to refer to the variations of what in many ways was the most popular and representative of dances, the gagliarda. But the same word could be used as a metaphor for the far-reaching transformations that were affecting key dichotomies such as pastime/profession, performance/audience, high/low in the social hierarchy, centre/periphery in the dynamics of cultural production and exchange. In the interpretation proposed by some of the more convincing and stimulating historical studies, the situations at the beginning and end of the century appear to have been quite different from each other and mutually recognisable. The paper sets out to reconstruct these scenarios and to suggest a few intermediate “photograms” to illustrate how dance might have changed through the century.

Dance in the Sixteenth Century

ARCANGELI, Alessandro
2016-01-01

Abstract

For dance practices in Italy and the rest of Europe, the 16th century was a time of change. Perhaps more appropriate would be to adopt the Italian term used in treatises of the time – mutanze – to refer to the variations of what in many ways was the most popular and representative of dances, the gagliarda. But the same word could be used as a metaphor for the far-reaching transformations that were affecting key dichotomies such as pastime/profession, performance/audience, high/low in the social hierarchy, centre/periphery in the dynamics of cultural production and exchange. In the interpretation proposed by some of the more convincing and stimulating historical studies, the situations at the beginning and end of the century appear to have been quite different from each other and mutually recognisable. The paper sets out to reconstruct these scenarios and to suggest a few intermediate “photograms” to illustrate how dance might have changed through the century.
2016
Renaissance dance, age of the galliard, social discipline in the sixteenth century
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