Alessandro Pontremoli, Università di Torino, Italy

Alessandro Pontremoli is full professor of Performing Arts at the University of Turin, where he coordinates the Performing Arts Curriculum of the Humanities PhD. He is the scientific consultant of SCT – Social and Community Centre of Turin and member of the Knowledge Community of CCW – Cultural Welfare Centre of Turin. He is a member of the scientific committee of the magazines «Comunicazioni Sociali», «Il Castello di Elsinore» and «Danza & Ricerca», and director of «Mimesis Journal». In 2015 he won the “Premio Nazionale di Teatro Luigi Pirandello” (non-fiction section) with the volume: Danza e Rinascimento. Danza, cultura e “buone maniere” nella società di corte del XV secolo (Macerata 2011). His research, in the historical and theoretical field, focuses primarily on the forms and aesthetics of dance, in particular from the 15th to the 18th centuries and in contemporary times, and secondly on social and community theatre. Among his monographs: La danza nelle corti di antico regime. Modelli culturali e processi di ricezione fra natura e arte (Bari 2012); Elementi di teatro educativo, sociale e di comunità (Turin 2015); La danza 2.0. Paesaggi coreografici del nuovo millennio (Rome and Bari 2018); L’arte del ballare. Danza, cultura e società a corte fra XV e XVII secolo (Bari 2021). He recently edited the critical edition of Giulio Mancini’s manuscript treatise, Del origin et nobiltà del ballo (Rome 2024).