Alessandro Pontremoli, Turin, Italien:

Alessandro Pontremoli teaches History of dance at the University of Turin, where he has been the scientific director of Master's Degree in Social and Community Theatre since 2004. He is member of Scientific Board of the journals«Il Castello di Elsinore» and «Danza & Ricerca» and he directs dance studies series "Tracce di tersicore" for UTET publisher in Turin. Since 2010 he has been member of the Dance Advisory Committee of the Ministry of "Beni e Attività Culturali" (MiBac). He studied Early Dance with Peggy Dixon in England and he has been directing the association "Il Leoncello-Scuola e gruppo di danza storica" of Legnano (Milano) since 1980. His historical and theoretical researches deal with aesthetic of dance, especially from 15th to 18th Century and with contemporary dance. Among his publications: La danza nelle corti di antico regime. Modelli culturali e processi di ricezione fra natura e arte, Bari, Edizioni di Pagina, 2012; La danza. Storia, teoria, estetica nel Novecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2015 (seventh edition).