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After a Master's degree and a thesis in Art History, decades of research and experimentation, and fruitful exchanges with skilled and meticulous medievalist collaborators, Catherine Ingrassia shares her passion for Medieval Dance with you.
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Catherine Ingrassia
1 Catherine Ingrassia discovered medieval dance in 1982 during a master's degree in Art History.Art and Archaeology on the iconography of dance in the Romanesque period, proposed and directed by Léon Préssouyre at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. After completing a DEA (post-graduate diploma) in researching written sources on dance, she finished her university studies in 1990 with a Nouveau Doctorat d'Histoire de l'ArtHer encounter with Claude Gaignebet and Andréa Francalanci, who served as her thesis juries, helped make her academic research a lifelong passion.
Since 1991, her work as a costume designer has enabled her to continue her research into the history of dance in the Middle Ages (The Costume Trunk)
The creation of Morescarole in 2000 enabled him to move on to the practical application, experimentation, reconstruction, restitution and contextualization of medieval dances.
To understand the physicality and dance culture of medieval men and women, Catherine experimented with a wide range of dance techniques. This knowledge of various dance cultures, whether contemporary, ancient or popular, will enable her to apprehend the gestural codes and the medieval way of dancing with a great open-mindedness and to understand its diversity. Dance is an art that is passed on, above all orally, Morescarole reaches out to the public with a wide range of dance conferences, street performances, shows and medieval balls. Numerous courses familiarize participants with the concept of "medieval dance".
In 2010, his meeting with Christophe Deslignes and Xavier Terrasa opened the door to medieval dance music. Together, they published "La Danse Médiévale" (Medieval Dance), a series of popularized booklets containing choreography proposals and musical transcriptions, enabling the creation of a first dance corpus for dancers wishing to recreate medieval dances from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Catherine Ingrassia's iconographic research, based on a corpus of more than 2,500 images, and her literary research, based on more than 700 texts, have enabled her to extend her research by combining her knowledge with researchers in musicology, a paleographer, a choreographer specializing in 15th and 16th century dances, dancers, musicians and circus artists, all of whom will help to shed light on the choreographic, musical and acrobatic activities of the Middle Ages.
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After a Master's degree and a thesis in Art History, decades of research and experimentation, and fruitful exchanges with skilled and meticulous medievalist collaborators, Catherine Ingrassia shares her passion for Medieval Dance with you.
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Academic publications, press articles, symposium proceedings, conferences and specialized editions, discover the diversity of Medieval Dance through the various themes addressed in a wide range of books and articles.
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La Danse Médiévale, a team of researchers dedicated to medieval dance; musicians and musicologists, dancers and choreographers, paleographers, historians and ethnologists have gradually laid the foundations for the history of medieval dance.
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After a Master's degree and a thesis in Art History, decades of research and experimentation, and fruitful exchanges with skilled and meticulous medievalist collaborators, Catherine Ingrassia shares her passion for Medieval Dance with you.
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