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2012 Programme

Event #8

Luca Scarlini

Dancing thought: the body as a thinking mechanism

“I could only believe a God who dances”: the famous phrase by Nietzsche inaugurated the 20th century. Dance in all its forms becomes a sort of litmus test of thinking, every form of bodily expression becomes a focus of interest. Oscar Wilde prophesied with Mallarmé on the performance of his Salome. Yeats wrote for a Japanese performer, Isadora Duncan embodied the Greek myth that unhinges the world of tutus and en-pointe ballet. Anita Berber, the queen of decadent Berlin, sat for the painter Otto Dix. It’s a whole world in motion, with Céline and Martha Graham, Ezra Pound, Jerome Robbins and Jean Cocteau dancing in the background. Stories of dancing thought from the mythical antiquity to the present time, where thought becomes incarnated in the bodily dimension with surprising results (duration: approx. 2 hours).

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Luca Scarlini

the playwright and essayist, and enjoys telling stories on stage, often together with singers, actors and other artists. Scarlini teaches at Milan’s European Design Institute and elsewhere in Italy and abroad. He has taken part in many festivals in Italy and in other countries. He regularly contributes to Channel 3 of Italian public radio, to Alias and L’indice dei Libri del mese. His books include La musa inquietante. Il computer e l’immaginario contemporaneo (Cortina, 2001); Equivoci e miraggi. Pratiche d’autobiografia oggi (Rizzoli, 2003); D’Annunzio a Little Italy. Le avventure del Vate nel mondo dell’emigrazione (Donzelli, 2008); Lustrini per il regno dei cieli. Ritratti di evirati cantori (Bollati Boringhieri, 2008); Sacre sfilate. Alta moda in Vaticano, da Pio X a Benedetto XVI (Guanda, 2010); Ladri di immagini (Edizioni Ambiente, 2010); Un paese in ginocchio (Guanda, 2011); Ritratti dimenticati. Profili di scrittori e artisti a Firenze dal mondo (Mauro Pagliai Editore, 2011); Il Natale dei Magi (Einaudi, 2011); La sindrome di Michael Jackson (Bompiani, 2011); Il Caravaggio rubato. Mito e cronaca di un furto (Sellerio, 2012).


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