Historical dance seminars organized by the Societa' di Danza

Historical dance seminars organized
by the Società di Danza

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The Società di Danza was founded in 1991 and has organized various seminars of historical dances, including the following ones.

13.3.1994. Il Ballare Lombardo.
Danze dei maestri italiani del XV secolo. Alessandro Pontremoli, Università Cattolica di Milano.

10.4.1994. Il Ballare Lombardo.
Danze dei maestri italiani del XV secolo. Alessandro Pontremoli, Università Cattolica di Milano.

15.5.1994. Il Secondo Cinquecento.
Claudia Celi, Accademia Nazionale di Danza di Roma.

6.11.1994. Tesara e i Balli pantomimici del XV secolo
Alessandro Pontremoli, Univerità Cattolica di Milano.

11.12.1994. Tendenze astratte e valenze drammatiche del tardo '500
Claudia Celi, Accademia Nazionale di Danza di Roma.

15.1.1995. Danze nelle opere di Monteverdi
Barbara Sparti, Roma.

12.2.1995. I Balletti vocali tra '500 e '600, da Gastoldi a Banchieri
Maurizio Padovan

12.3.1995. Mutanze e Passeggi di Canario
Federica Calvino Prina

2.4.1995. Basi della danza barocca
Deda Cristina Colonna.

7.5.1995. La Contraddanza italiana dell'800
Fabio Mòllica.

14.10 - 12.11 - 16.12.1995 - 13.1 - 10.2 - 9.3 -13.4 - 11.5.1996. Bologna
L'arte del danzare nel Quattrocento italiano
Federica Calvino Prina

12.5.1996. Pisa
Il Ballo da Sala tra Rinascimento e Barocco
Federica Calvino Prina

19.10 - 9.11 1996, 11.1 - 15.2 - 15.3 1997. Bologna
- La Danza del Cinquecento in Europa - Federica Calvino Prina
- Il Settecento Europeo - Gloria Giordano
20.10 - 10.11.1996, 12.1 - 16.2 - 9.3 -10.5.1997. Pisa
L'arte di danzare nel Cinquecento italiano
Federica Calvino Prina
7.12.1997, 1.2 - 14.2 - 29.3 - 26.4.1998. Pisa
Danze del Quattrocento italiano
Federica Calvino Prina

24.1 - 14.2 - 21.3 - 18.4 - 16.5 - 21.6.1998 - Bologna
Danzare Mozart
Fabio Mòllica
31.10 - 28.11 - 12.12.1998, 9.1 - 6.2 - 6.3 - 10.4 - 8.5.1999. Bologna
Danzare Mozart
Fabio Mòllica

8-9.5.1999 Bologna
Workshop on XVIII century dance
nel Convegno "Storia della Danza e danza storica: riflessioni"
Villa Aldrovandi-Mazzacorati
Workshop on 'Lo stile italiano di Gennaro Magri' by Letizia Dradi. You can find here the complete program of the Congress 1999.

2-4.6.2000 Bologna
Workshops on XVIII century dance
nel International Congress "Bologna and the European culture of Dance in the '700"
Teatro S. Martino
Workshop with: Deda Cristina Colonna, Ornella Di Tondo, Christine Bayle, Jane Gingell. You can find here the complete program of the Congress 2000.

31.7-7.8.2004 Landro di Gioiosa Marea (Messina)
Danze di Società in Europa tra '600 e '700
Gloria Giordano

31.7-6.8.2005 Landro di Gioiosa Marea (Messina)
Gran Bal du Roi
Bourrées, menuets, gavottes, contredances
Gloria Giordano

1.2, 15.2, 23.2.2006 Pisa
Danzare Mozart
Seminar of XVIII Century dance
Simonetta Balsamo

10.3.2007 Livorno
Stage on French dance of XVIII Century
Istituto P. Mascagni
Gloria Giordano

21.10.2007 Milano
Nordica - Seminar of XIX Century Dance
Fabio Mòllica

18.11.2007 Bergamo
Nordica - Seminar of XIX Century Dance
Fabio Mòllica

27.10, 2.11.2007, 12.1, 9.2, 8.3, 17.5.2008 Pisa
Danzare Mozart
Simonetta Balsamo

1.2.2008 Stezzano - Bergamo
Nordica - Seminar of XIX Century Dance
Fabio Mòllica

16.6.2008 Modena
Stage "History, theory and practice of the waltz"
in Teachers Training School for XIX Century Dances
Teatro Pavarotti
Fabio Mòllica

19.6.2008 Modena
Stage "History, theory and practice of the Polka"
in Teachers Training School for XIX Century Dances
Teatro Pavarotti
Fabio Mòllica

16-21.6.2008 Modena
XIX Century Dances - Teachers Training School for XIX Century Dances
Fabio Mòllica

19-21.6.2008 La Maddalena
Seminar of 19th Century Dance
Simonetta Balsamo

16.11.2008 Stezzano - Bergamo
Nordica - Seminar of 19th Century Dance
Fabio Mòllica

1.3.2009 Trento
Nordica - Seminar of 19th Century Dance
Fabio Mòllica

15.11.2009 Stezzano - Bergamo
24.1.2010 Mantova
Nordica - Seminar of 19th Century Dance
Fabio Mòllica

17.10.2010 Mantova
23.1.2011 Stezzano - Bergamo
Nordica - Seminar of 19th Century Dance
Fabio Mòllica

20.2.2011 Pisa
Etruria - Seminar of 19th Century Dance
Fabio Mòllica

23.10.2011 Mantova
22.1.2012 Stezzano - Bergamo
Nordica - Seminar of 19th Century Dance
Fabio Mòllica

4.12.2011 Napoli
15.1.2012 Salerno
11.3.2012 Roma
Italica - Seminar of 19th Century Dance
Fabio Mòllica

22.4, 3.6, 22.9, 21.10.2012 Faenza
Danzare Mozart
Simonetta Balsamo

28.10.2012 Torino
20.1.2013 Stezzano - Bergamo
Nordica - Seminar of 19th Century Dance
Fabio Mòllica

2.12.2012 Salerno
Italica - Seminar of 19th Century Dance
Fabio Mòllica

24.2.2013 Pisa
Etruria - Seminar of 19th Century Dance
Fabio Mòllica

23.11.2013 Ferrara
Ridotto del Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
L'arte del Valzer, Storia di una Danza
Simonetta Balsamo

12.1, 25.1, 1.2, 15.2.2014 Faenza
Danzare Mozart
Simonetta Balsamo

16.2.2014 Lucca
Seminar on history and evolution of Country Dance
Complesso S. Micheletto
Simonetta Balsamo

30.1.2015 Ferrara
Ridotto del Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
La Contraddanza, cultura e storia tra musica e danza
Simonetta Balsamo

25.10.2015 Bologna
Danzare Mozart
Stage di danze al tempo di Mozart
Seminar of 18th Century Dance
Contredanse, Allemnade, Menuet
Palazzo Grassi
Fabio Mòllica e Simonetta Balsamo

22-24.4.2016 San Pietroburgo
XIX Century Dances
Fabio Mòllica

17-24.8.2019 Landro di Gioiosa Marea (Messina)
Regency, First Empire and German Romanticism Dance and history
Contredanse, country dance, German Quadrille and Waltz. A journey through music and dance, literature and history, in the first decade of the 19th century, from London to Paris to Berlin.
Fabio Mòllica e Simonetta Balsamo

National Meetings of Società di Danza

1st National Meeting
Salsomaggiore Terme (Pr), 1-3/11/2013
19th century dance stage: Scottish country dances and French contredanses
Scottish country dances and European couple dances
Italian and American quadrilles and European couple dances
Fabio Mòllica e Simonetta Balsamo

2nd National Meeting
Firenze, Villa di Poggio Imperiale, 1-2/11/2014
The Dance in Europe in the early 19th century - The 'Empire' style
The Dance in Scotland in La Danza in the early 19th century - Scottish and Highland
The Country dance in 19th century: England, France and United States
Paris, London, Wien: Dance in the European capitals in 19th Century
Fabio Mòllica e Simonetta Balsamo

3rd National Meeting
Firenze, Villa di Poggio Imperiale, 31/10-1/11/2015
The social Dance in Italy: 1800-1810
The most famous Italian Dancing Masters: 1830
The ball dress for the lady and the gentleman in 19th Century
The dance in Italy in the Risorgimento years: 1840-1870
The social dance of the end of the Century: 1880-1900
Fabio Mòllica e Simonetta Balsamo

4th National Meeting
Firenze, Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, 29-30/11/2016
Couple dances and group dances in Europe in early '800
From Europe to United Staes and back
Video on "The ball dress 1804-1904
Ball etiquette in 19th century
Couple dances and group dances in Europa in 19th century
Russia and Europe in 19th century
Fabio Mòllica e Simonetta Balsamo

5th National Meeting
Firenze, Istituto Salesiani, 28-29/10/2017
Quadrilles of society and Shool Quadrilles
The 19th Century dance system: Group dances/Couple dances
Cotillon between dance and game
Ancient reel and jig
Couple dances from Paris and New York
Fabio Mòllica e Simonetta Balsamo

6th National Meeting
Firenze, Ex Scuderie Granducali, 3-4/11/2018
What was Jane Austen dancing? - The pleasure of dancing in the old England of early 19th Century
Dancing Offenbach - The operetta and dance of society
Dance in Scotland between the beginning and the end of the 19th Century
Chahut and Can-can, or of creative dance
Original quadrilles in early 19th century Germany
Quadrille 'called' in Pisa in 1847
The Waltz from Europe to the United States and back
Cake walk, Barn Dance, Rag Time or the new dance
Fabio Mòllica e Simonetta Balsamo

7th National Meeting
Firenze, Ex Scuderie Granducali, 2-3/11/2019
Contraddanza in Italy in 18th century (M)
English Country Dance: the long life of John Playford (B)
The German origins of the waltz (M)
Contraddanze in Napoleonic Italy(M)
Manuscripts from Scottish castles (B)
The fine art of contredanse in France (M)
The Quadrilles of Goethe (M)
Cotillon: dance and game from Germany to Russia (M)
The merry revolution of two step (M)
History, the books, the Società di Danza (M)
Fabio Mòllica e Simonetta Balsamo

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