Barbara Sparti

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Barbara Sparti (born February 7, 1932 in New York ; † June 17, 2013 in Rome ) was an American choreographer and dance historian who studied Italian dance during the Renaissance .

life and work

Sparti studied music and dance in New York and the methods of Carl Orff and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze in Salzburg and Geneva. She initially taught music and movement to children and adults. From 1973 she also gave workshops on Italian dance from the 15th to 17th centuries. Century in Europe, North America and Japan. She was visiting professor at Tel-Aviv University all'Hebrew, at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem (1997), at the University of California Santa Cruz (2000) and at Princeton University (2002).

In the course of her career Sparti specialized in the dances of the Italian Renaissance and founded the ensemble "Gruppo di Danza Rinascimentale", which performed under her direction from 1975 to 1988 at festivals, exhibitions and conferences in the most important Italian and European centers.

Sparti created choreographies for the music of Giulio Caccini , Emilio de 'Cavalieri , Marco da Gagliano , Claudio Monteverdi and for plays by Ruzante , among others in collaboration with the RAI and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

In addition to a translation of Guglielmo Ebreo's treatise (1463), she also edited an important facsimile edition of the Santucci manuscript (1614) that she discovered . Sparti is the author of numerous articles on dance history and dance studies.

In 1990 she was awarded the title “Distinguished Visiting Professor” at the School of Dance at the University of California (Los Angeles), and in 2009 she received an honorary degree from the Academy of Valladolid.

Fonts

Editing and editorial work

  • Guglielmo Ebro of Pesaro. De Pratica Seu Arte Tripudii (= On the practice or art of dancing), edited, translated and introduced by B. Sparti, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  • Lutio Compasso. Ballo della Gagliarda, ed. by Barbara Sparti, Freiburg: fa-gisis, 1995.
  • Ercole Santucci Perugino. Mastro da ballo (1614). Foreword by Bengt Häger. Introduction by Barbara Sparti. Hildesheim / Zurich / New York, Olms, 2004. ISBN 3-487-12683-4 .
  • Imaging Dance: Visual Representations of Dancers and Dancing (together with Van Zile, J.), Hildesheim / Zurich / New York, Olms, 2011. ISBN 978-3-487-14549-5 .

Articles (selection: since 2006)

  • "The Masks in the Dance Etchings of Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (Bologna 1634-1718)", in Wilson, D. (cur.), Masks, Masques and Masquerades: a Living Tradition, Proceedings of the EDC Conference, London, (Early Dance Circle), 2006, pp. 23-29.
  • “Isabella and the Dancing Este Brides, 1473-1514”, in Brooks, L. (cur.) Women Making Dance in Early Modern Europe. Studies in Dance History, Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 2007, pp. 19–48.
  • "Hercules Dancing in Thebes, in Pictures and Music", Early Music History, Vol. 26, 2007, pp. 219-270.
  • "Inspired Movement versus Static Uniformity: A Comparison of Trecento and Quattrocento Dance Images" in Music in Art (International Journal for Music Iconography), Vol. XXXIII, n. 1-2, 2008, pp. 39-51.
  • "An 18th-Century Venetian Moresca. Popular Dance, Pyrrhic, or Regulated Competition", in Schlottermüller, U., Weiner, H., Richter, M. (cur.), Vom Schäferidyll zur Revolution. European dance culture in the 18th century, Freiburg, "fa-gisis" music and dance edition, 2008, pp. 197–218.
  • "Irregular and Asymmetric Galliards; The Case of Salomone Rossi", in Epp, M., Power, BE (cur.), The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Early Music, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009, pp. 211-228.
  • "'Oh, East Is East, and West Is West, and Never the Twain Shall Meet'. La ricerca teorica e la pratica della danza storica: strade divergenti?", In Nocilli, C., Pontremoli, A. (cur.) , La disciplina coreologica in Europe. Problemi e prospettive, Roma, Aracne, 2010, pp. 153–167.
  • “Chastisement and Celebration: Dance in Papal Bologna in the Etchings of GM Mitelli (1634–1718)”, in Sparti, B., Van Zile, J. (cur.), Imaging Dance: Visual Representations of Dancers and Dancing, Hildesheim, Olms, 2011, pp. 149-180.
  • "Jewish Dancing-Masters and 'Jewish Dance' in Renaissance Italy. Guglielmo Ebreo and Beyond" [expanded and updated], in Brin Ingber, J. (cur.), Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2011 , Pp. 235-250.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary (s), http://carina.se/barbara-sparti_en.html , accessed on June 25, 2013.

Web links

  • Barbara Sparti obituary with photo on the website of the Carina Ari Memorial Foundation (English)
personal data
SURNAME Sparti, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American dance historian and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH June. 17.2013
Place of death Rome