LOST PAS, FALSE PAS, FOUND PAS. DANCES AT THE 16TH CENTURY COURTS (Krok zagubiony, krok falszywy, krok odnaleziony. Tance na dworach w XVI wieku)

• Authors: Pietrzak-Thébault Joanna
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Dances were a permanent element of 16th century court life. Adapting the Italian treaty 'Il libro del cortegiano' by Baldassare Castiglione to Polish reality, Lukasz Górnicki omitted many of the elements he found improper for a Polish courtier, but he preserved the dance fragments. Diversity of written, iconographic and musical sources often fail to facilitate a researcher trying to understand the role of dance in the past epochs and to reconstruct old choreographies. Regardless of it, dance, though seen for long years from the perspective of ballet history, deserves also an insightful analysis from the point of view of cultural anthropology. Some of the typical problems to appear while combining different research perspective are the interactions between the court and plebeian plays, the dance's therapeutic function, its particular place in the Neoplatonic world view, and last but not least the special interest shown to women.

Keywords

EN

CASTIGLIONE BALDASSARE - 'IL LIBRO DEL CORTEGIANO'; DANCES AT 16TH C. COURTS; GÓRNICKI LUKASZ

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 100
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 159-174
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pietrzak-Thébault Joanna

• Joanna Pietrzak-Thébault, Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul.Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, POland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA061017