Phd in MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS

email: vito.dibernardi@uniroma1.it
phone: 06 49697000
building: Ex Vetrerie Sciarra, via dei Volsci 122, stanza 302
room: 302

Vito Di Bernardi is Full Professor of Performing Arts at "La Sapienza" University of Rome (Italy), where he teaches Dance History. In 1981, at the University of Bologna, he got a Master Degree in Disciplines of Art, Music and Performing Arts (DAMS) under the supervision of Prof. Ferruccio Marotti. In 1989, he completed his PhD in Theatrical Anthropology. From 1994 to 2012, he taught History of Dance and History of Theatre at the University of Siena. He did research on the following subjects: a) Modern and Contemporary Ballet and Dance(Vaslav NijinskY, Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Merce Cunningham, Virgilio Sieni), Theatre in Europe (Peter Brook, Peter Stein); b) Orientalist Tendencies and Post-colonialism in 20th Century Dance (Ruth S. Denis, Ram Gopal, Ballets Russes, Shobana Jeyasingh, Akram Khan); c) Dances in Indian, Cambodian, and Indonesian Traditional Cultures (since 1981, he carried on field research in Kerala, Java, Bali and Cambodia); d) Pantomime in Italian Traditional Actors(Angelo Musco); e) Audiovisual and digital Documentation for the Performing Arts and Digital Dance Archives: Theoretical Issues and Practical Applications. In 2009, he won with his book “Ruth St. Denis” two International Prizes: “Maurizio Grande” for theatrical essay-writing; and “Maria Signorelli” Theatrical Prize for the celebration for the centenary of Maria Signorelli’s birth. He is member of Istituto Interculturale di Studi Musicali Comparati (Institute of Intercultural Musical Studies, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice). In 2015, he conceived and organized at the University of Rome La Sapienza the International Conference “Imagining Dance. Bodies and Visions in the Digital Era". In 2017, he is head and coordinator of a research on the “Il Coreografo Elettronico Archive (Naples 1990-2017) Collecting and Preserving Dance Memory” financed by the special funding for research of University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Since 2016, he is the scientific director of the LABS (Audiovisual Laboratory for Performing Arts) of the Department of Art History and Performing Arts – at La Sapienza, University of Rome. He is Sapienza Project Manager for CLASH! When classic and contemporary dance collide and new forms emerge, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of European Union (Grant Agreement 2018-2020). Since 2021 he has been directing research funded by Sapienza on Gordon Craig and "The Marionette". In 2022 he won the Luigi Pirandello National Theater Award with the book "Ossatura. Mimmo Cuticchio and Virgilio Sieni: puppets and dance in Nudità".