Elena Cervellati

Elena Cervellati, Ph. D., is Associate Professor at the Arts Department of the Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, where she teaches “Dance History” and “Dance Theories and Practices”. She's the curator of the European Kazuo Ohno Archives and she cohordinates the Gruppo di ricerca Teorie e pratiche della danza italiana; moreover, she co-diriges, with Elena Randi (Univarsità di Padova), the research magazine «Danza e ricerca. Laboratorio di studi, scritture, visioni». She's the author of the books Théophile Gautier e la danza. La rivelazione del corpo nel balletto del XIX secolo (CLUEB, 2007) and Storia della danza (Pearson, 2020); she's a regular contributor for dance and performing arts journals, writing mainly about the ballet in the first decades of the XIX Century, the forms of contemporary theatrical dance, especially in Italy, the screendance. From 1997 to 2002 she was the manager of the Italian dance company Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni and from 2008 she organizes the dance section of the theatrical season of the Centro La Soffitta, directed by Gerardo Guccini.