Wilson, David

Contrapassi in Fifteenth-century Italian Dance Reconsidered (Review Response) / David Wilson .-- Edinburgh: : Edinburgh University Press, , 2006

6 p.

Dance Research -- Vol. 24, núm. 1,Summer 2006, p. 60 - 65


RESUMEN: In their exhaustive survey of contrapassi and "doppi on one foot" in fifteenth-century Italian balli in the last volume of Dance Research, Lo Monaco and Vinciguerra present a novel and thought-provoking model for the development of these puzzling steps. Its great value lies in opening up new ways of looking at the detailed organisation of step in such dances; but whether this has any relevance to contrapassi is quite another matter, and many will remain sceptical.