a selection of my publications

Note - The following list does not, for now, includes the material I published on this blog and its alter ego in Italian.

BOOKS

Letter to the World: Martha Graham danza Emily Dickinson [Letter to the World: Martha Graham dances Emily Dickinson], Rome, Aracne, 2015.

ESSAYS

"Afrofuturist Degas", Roots-Routes - Research in Visual Cultures, Year IX, N 31, September-December 2019, www.roots-routes.org, available online: http://www.roots-routes.org/afrofuturist-degas-by-rosella-simonari/ 
 
"Martha Graham's Letter to the World: A dance adaptation of Emily Dickinson", Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, Vol 12, Ns 1-2, 1 June 2019, pp. 33-48.
 

"The Ancestress figure: Puritanism in Martha Graham's choreography", The European Journal of American Culture, Vol 33, issue 2, June 2014, pp. 131-145.

"The p.s. (la studiosa precaria): Raccontare la precarietà della ricerca attraverso una striscia a fumetti", in Mappe della precarietà, vol II, Bologna, Odoya, 2012, pp. 191-210.

"Identità che s/ballano in rete: pratiche di interazione e collaborazione con il sito www.ballet-dance.com!, Scritture di donne fra letteratura e giornalismo Conference Proceedings, Società Italiana delle Letterate (SIL), published online here.

“La seducción que danza: relación entre coreología y estudios de género en el mito de Carmen”, Atti del Convegno La disciplina coreologica in Europa: Problemi e Prospettive, Cecilia Nocilli e Alessandro Pontremoli (eds.), Rome, Aracne, 2010, pp. 105-120.

“Sulle tracce di Letter to the World: lo studio di una coreografia di Martha Graham fra ricostruzione e precarietà”, in La danza fuori dalla scena – Cultura, media, educazione, Conference Proceedings, Ornella Di Tondo, Alessandro Pontremoli, Francesco Stoppa (eds.), La Rivista Abruzzese, no. 81 (monographic no.), 2010, pp. 81-94.

"'Is a Word Dead When it is Said?': Relationship between Text and Performance in Martha Graham’s Letter to the World”, in Expression in the Performing Arts, Inma Álvarez, Héctor J. Pérez e Francisca Pérez-Carreño (eds.), Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, pp. 151-166.

“‘After Great Pain, A Formal feeling Comes’: Emily Dickinson’s Poetry and Figure in Martha Graham’s Letter to the World”, in USA: Identities, Cultures, and Politics in National, Transnational, and Global Perpsectives, AISNA (Italian Association of North American Studies) XIX Conference Proceedings, Marina Camboni, Valerio Massimo De Angelis, Daniele Fiorentino, Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh (eds.), Macerata, Edizioni Università di Macerata, 2009, pp. 539-552.

“The p.s. (precarious scholar): using the concept of precarity as a creative tool”, Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies – Dancing Economies, Society of Dance History Scholars Newsletter, vol XXIX, 2009, pp. 14-17.

““Accade in letteratura…e non solo: New Italian Epic, letteratura, danza e altre arti”, online essay in four parts: 

1) http://dancescriber.blogspot.com/2009/04/accade-in-letteratura-e-non-solo-new.html,
2) http://dancescriber.blogspot.com/2009/04/accade-in-letteratura-e-non-solo-new_29.html,
3) http://dancescriber.blogspot.com/2009/05/accade-in-letteratura-e-non-solo-new.html,
4) http://dancescriber.blogspot.com/2009/05/accade-in-letteratura-e-non-solo-new_06.html.

“Danzare il cante jondo: ipotesi di contaminazione fra Martha Graham e il flamenco”, Corpi danzanti. Culture, tradizioni, identità, Conference Proceedings dedicated to Giorgio Di Lecce, Ornella Di Tondo, Immacolata Giannuzzi, Sergio Torsello (eds.), Nardò, Besa, 2009, pp. 209-230.

 ““New Italian Epic e gender: riflessioni sparse”, Leggere Donna, n. 140, May-June 2009, pp. 29-30, avbailable online at: http://www.carmillaonline.com/archives/Rosella_Simonari_New_Italian_Epic_e_gender.pdf

“Bringing Carmen Back to Spain: Antonio Gades’s Flamenco Dance in Carlos Saura’s Choereofilm”, Dance Research, vol. 26, n. 2, Winter 2008, pp. 189-203.

Sappiano le mie parole di sangue e New Italian Epic”,
http://www.carmillaonline.com/archives/2008/09/002794.html, 28 settembre 2008.

“Looking Back at Martha Graham’s Letter to the World: Its Genesis, Its Reception, Its Legacy”, in Looking Back/Moving Forward, SDHS (Society of Dance History Scholars) Conference Proceedings, 2008, pp. 52-57.

“Alberto Spadolini e la danza”, in Bolero-Spadò: Alberto Spadolini, una vita di tutti i colori, Marco Travaglini (ed.), Modigliana, Litografia Fabbri, 2007, pp. 118-126. Exhibition Catalogue, Sala Imperatori, Porto San Giorgio (Fermo), 10 August – 9 September 2007.

"Spadolini: danzatore primitivista o pittore di ballerine?”, www.albertospadolini.it, April 2007.

  

ARTICLES

“Dead or Alive?: Martha Graham’s Legacy Twenty Years After she Passed Away”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/201201/GrahamJan2012.html, January 2012.

 “Moving Fabric: Costumes and Movement in Tero Saarinen’s Dances”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/200911/articles/feature_tsaarinen_20091002_simonari.html, November 2009.

“Martha Graham atti di luce con Emily Dickinson”, Danza&Danza, n. 195, December 2006, p. 18.

“In Search of Alberto Spadolini: the Incomplete Mosaic Behind an Extraordinary Life”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200608/articles/Spadolini20060700.html, August 2006.

“Dancing Carmen, Dancing Freedom: Antonio Gades’ Dance Adaptation in the Light of a Long and Enduring Genealogy”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200607/articles/Carmen200606.html , July 2006. 

“Henri Oguike Dance Company: Open Rehearsal for Tiger Dancing, plus extracts from Front Line, Finale”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/200603/articles/Oguike20060127.html, March 2006.

“Tero Saarinen Company, Open Rehearsal: 'Borrowed Light'”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200410/articles/Saarinen20040728.html, October 2004.

"Lilith, The Pioneering Woman, The Woman in White…Examples of 'Knowing Figures' in Martha Graham's Dances",
http://www.criticaldance.com/features/2003/mgdc_knowing_20030900.html, October 2003.

"Lettera al mondo: Martha Graham danza Emily Dickinson", Leggere Donna, n. 93, July – August 2001, pp. 38-39.

REVIEWS

“Nobody Knows and “I Lost Something on the Hill”: Fernando Suels Mendoza and Luna Dance Company”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/201105/Luna11Dec2011.html, December 2011.

“Menhir Company: Nina e le nuvole (Nina and the clouds)”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/201105/Menhir21May2011.html, Summer 2011.

“Anne Bogart and Martha Graham Hand in Hand Across America – SITI Company and Martha Graham Dance Company ‘American Document’”, http://ballet-dance.com/201011/articles/sitimgdc_american_20100611_simonari.html, November 2010.

“Fists Up and Moving. Dance is a Weapon – Martha Graham Dance Company”, http://ballet-dance.com/201010/articles/mgdc_joyce_20100609_simonari.html, October 2010.

 “Martha Graham reinventata da Anne Bogart”, Danza&Danza, July – August 2010, p. 12.

“Venice Biennale ‘Degree Zero’ – International Colloquium of Contemporary Dance”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/200908/articles/venicebiennale_colloquium_20090626_simonari.html, Summer 2009.

“Emio Greco / PC – Hell”, http://ballet-dance.com/200906/articles/greco_hell_20090505_simonari.html, June 2009.

"First Position: A century of Ballet Artists – book by Toba Singer”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/200811/articles/book_firstposition_20081000_simonari.html, November 2008.

“Painting the Stage Conference – Examining the interrelationship of painting and the performing arts”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/200711/articles/paintingthestage.html, November 2007.

“Alberto Spadolini Exhibition – Bolero-Spado': Una Vita Di Tutti I Colori”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/200710/articles/albertospadoliniexhibition.html, October 2007.

“Waving good-bye to Manon - Alessandra Ferri's Final Season with ABT”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200707/articles/ABT20070611.html, July 2007.

“Il danzatore che dipingeva la danza”, Danza&Danza, 201, July – August 2007, p. 19.

“Putting it Down in Words: Dance Theatre Journal Writing on Performance Conference”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/200705/articles/DTJ20070331.html, May 2007.

“Errand into Graham’s Maze: The Martha Graham Dance Company in Italy”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200704/articles/MGDC20070216.html, April 2007.

“500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200703/articles/ItalianDance2006.html, March 2007.

“Compagnie Linga: When a Table is Centerstage”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200702/articles/Linga20061222.html, February 2007.

“Homage to Milloss”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/200610/articles/Milloss20060610.html, October 2006.

“Takao Kawaguchi’s D.D.D.: Dancing to the Rhythm of the Heart”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200608/articles/Kawaguchi20060609.html, August 2006.

“Enlightened by Death: Ismael Ivo’s Illuminata”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200608/articles/Ivo20060610.html, August 2006.

“What is There Under the Skin of the Dancing Body?: Underskin – Venice Biennale Dance Symposium”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/200607/articles/Underskin20060609.html, July 2006.

“When Art Dances: The Dance of the Avant-Gardes Exhibition”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200606/articles/AvantGardes20060421.html, June 2006.

“Between Present and Future: Cullberg Ballet’s New Route”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200605/articles/Cullberg20060319.html, May 2006.

“Aterballetto: Mozart, Love and the ‘Colours’ of the South of Italy”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200604/articles/Aterballeto20060223.html, April 2006.

“Shen Wei Dance Arts’ Conntect Transfer: When Dance Paints Movement”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200602/articles/ShenWei20051126.html, February 2006.

“Tero Saarinen Company: “Borrowed Light”, The Light of Community”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200508/articles/Saarinen20050409.html, August 2005.

“Henri Oguike Dance Company: The Energy Between Light and Sound”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200508/articles/HenriOguike20050712.html, August 2005.

“Tanya Khabarova - 'Reflection': Eve, evolution, and the journey into life”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200501/articles/Khabarova20041216.html, January 2005.

“Yolande Snaith Theatre dance - 'Jardin Blanc': The white garden of movement”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200411/articles/Snaith20041025.html, November 2004.

“Tero Saarinen Company - ‘Westward Ho!’, ‘Wavelengths’, ‘Hunt’”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/200408/articles/Saarinen20040716.html, August 2004.

“Graham Pleasing and Political, Martha Graham Dance Company”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/200403/articles/Graham20040222.htm, March 2004.

“Satyric Festival Song, Martha Graham Dance Company”,
http://www.criticaldance.com/reviews/2003/MarthaGrahamDanceCo20031100.html, December 2003

“Oh my Goddess!”, Micheal Clark Dance Company,
http://www.criticaldance.com/reviews/2003/Clark20031004s.html, November 2003.

INTERVIEWS

“Pina Bausch and Beyond: Interview with Fernando Suels Mendoza”, http://www.ballet-dance.com/201201/MendozaJan2012.html, January 2012.

“Ritmo di parola e gesto: intervista a Valeria Simone”, http://dancescriber.blogspot.com/2012/02/ritmo-di-parola-e-gesto.html, 22 May 2011.

“Albero, ecologia dell’anima: intervista a Elisa Latini”, http://dancescriber.blogspot.it/2011/07/albero-ecologia-dellanima.html, 31 May 2011.

"An Interview with Susan Sentler: Exploring Martha Graham’s “Primitive Mysteries””, http://www.ballet-dance.com/200612/articles/Sentler200609.html, December 2006.

“Tero Saarinen: Dance that H(a)unts, Dance that Enchants”,
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200503/articles/TemoSaarinen20040724.html, March 2005.

"Visioni di/da donna tatuata: intervista a Betti Marenko",
http://www.donneinviaggio.it/articoli2.asp?id=96 (no longer available), October 2004.

(updated on 16 September 2019)