Mikhailova-Smolniakova, Ekaterina: On the problem of pictorial dance sources: dance "formulas" in Italian figurative arts in the Age of Basse dance
(Ekaterina Mikhailova-Smolniakova)

The object of current research is the group of Italian iconographic dance sources depicting dance pair (as a single image or as a part of a scene) and dated mainly from 1380 to 1450. The objective is to offer the applicable method of iconographic analysis of dance images as a secondary source. The lecture will contain the description of the main dance formulas for the depicting a dance pair in the period in question in Italy and the presentation the main questions we should ask ourselves analyzing the dance pictures. We are going to replace the idea of descriptive analysis by the alternative one and demonstrate how we can interpret these pictures (both as a visual source and as a work of art) and use the pictorial information. Finally, we will review the main difficulties and get to know spokesperson's solutions for described pictorial dance formulas.

Ekaterina Mikhailova-Smolniakova, St. Petersburg, Russland:

Ekaterina Mikhailova-Smolniakova has started the career in historical dances in 2001. The leader of the renaissance dance ensemble "Vento del Tempo", one of the leaders of St. Petersburg Historical Dance Club, the secretary of the Historical Dance Association, a member of the organizing committee of the annual conference considering the reconstruction of European historical dances of XIII-XX c., the author of the book "Dance of the Renaissance" (published in Russian in 2010). Main field of interests is the dance and festival culture of the Renaissance in the context of aesthetic of the period.