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 curates the European branch of the Kazuo Ohno Archives and she coordinates the Gruppo di ricerca Teorie e pratiche della danza italiana. Together with Elena Randi she directs the journal «Danza e ricerca. Laboratorio di studi, scritture, visioni», founded by Eugenia Casini Ropa. Sh is the author of the volumes Théophile Gautier e la danza. La rivelazione del corpo nel balletto del XIX secolo (CLUEB, 2007) and Storia della danza (Pearson, 2020) as well as essays related to her privileged research topics: ballet in the first half of the 19th century, contemporary Italian dance fromthe 1980s, and screendance. From 1997 to 2002 she worked as the manager of the Italian dance company Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni and since 2008 she has been planning dance initiatives within the Centro La Soffitta.