Elena Cervellati

She teaches Dance History, Dance Theory and Screendance Forms at the University of Bologna, where she coordinates the research Teorie e pratiche della danza in Italia fra il Novecento e l’oggi, curates the European Kazuo Ohno Archive, and directs, with Elena Randi, «Danza e ricerca. Laboratorio di studi, scritture, visioni», founded by Eugenia Casini Ropa. She has taught at Université Lyon Lumière 2 and Smith College (Northampton, MA). Her research covers ballet in the first half of the 19th century, dance in Italy since the 1970s, relationships between words and the dancing body, and screendance. Her writings include Storia della danza (2020); Marie Taglioni e Giselle in Italia. Migrazioni e traduzioni del balletto romantico nell’Ottocento (2024); Théophile Gautier e la danza. La rivelazione del corpo nel balletto del XIX secolo (2026), and, with Silvia Garzarella, Danza, schermi e visori. Contaminazioni digitali nella scena italiana (2024). From 1997 to 2002 she was the manager of the Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni and, since 2008, she has been planning initiatives dedicated to dance for the Centro La Soffitta.