Filippo Taglioni

Padre del ballo romantico

Edited by Bruno Ligore

The volume traces the life and art of Filippo Taglioni (1777-1871), the internationally renowned dancer, choreographer and teacher who contributed to the establishment of Romantic ballet in Europe.

Known primarily for La Sylphide (1832) and as the father of Maria Taglioni—the 19^th-century dancer par excellence—Filippo Taglioni had a long and intense career in which he explored multiple registers of expression. Beyond the myth of his daughter, but ultimately alongside it, we wondered who he really was.

Following in the footsteps of recent studies that allow us to rethink the artist’s activity within complex social and economic dynamics, the volume traces Filippo Taglioni’s many activities chronologically, and in different geographical areas (Italy, France, Austria, Germany, Poland, and Russia). It comprises a series of rich appendices, including the full transcription of Filippo Taglioni’s calendar log Note des représentations faites depuis mon départ de l’Italie pour la Suède le 1^er décembre 1817 (1817-1838) held at the Bibliothèque-musée de l’Opéra.

The work thus brings together for the first time the experiences of one of the great protagonists of the Romantic Age, in the light of previously unpublished sources of the time.

Contributors

Matilda Ann Butkas Ertz, Ornella Di Tondo, Olga Fedorchenko, Bénédicte Jarrasse, Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schüller, Joanna Sibilska, Madison U. Sowell, Hanna Walsdorf

Preface by José Sasportes

Publisher : Aracne, 2023

Languages: English, French and Italian

548 pages

ISBN 9791221810462 (paperback)