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Dancing Italian Culture: Venezia et al.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2016

Clara Sacchetti  and
Batia Stolar
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Abstract

How does Le Stelle, an ethnic dance group in the multicultural city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, represent Italian culture? Our article broaches this question by analyzing Le Stelle's 2012 “Carnivale of Venezia” dance. While the number is meant to evoke the Italian Renaissance, it creatively uses kinetic movements from ballet, Irish step dancing, and the Italian tarantella. It is staged to a 1950s Mantovani song mixed with music from Assassin's Creed II; and it utilizes Italian peasant costuming and Venetian masks. Our paper examines Le Stelle's use of these hybridities in staging Italian culture.

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Research Article
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Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings , Volume 2016 , Fall 2016 , pp. 337 - 343
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Copyright © Clara Sacchetti and Batia Stolar 2016 

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