24.06.2020. “The Sound of Dress in Etruscan Dance”. Centre for Textile Research Conferences.

Venue: Centre for Textile Research, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. ONLINE EVENT.

The aim of this conference is to understand differently the sound and communicative potential of adornment in Etruscan dance. For example, what could have been their sensory impact in dance? The belts and bracelets in particular, which were added to the male and female body, could create a rattling or tinkling sound, and highlight, shape and perform an identity and a status. The conference presents some of the questions that will be deepened with the TEXDANCE European project.

The video of the conference is available.

27.04.2020. “The Motion of Etruscan Dress”. The Columbia University Seminar on Studies in Dance.

Venue: Faculty House, Columbia University, New York, USA.

Audrey Gouy will present her MSCA research project and discuss her new article on the motion of Etruscan dress in dance. Indeed, it appears that Etruscan dress offers complementary information to the visual movements depicted, for example, in tomb paintings, allowing us to better understand the kind of dance movements represented and to identify specific moments of dance. The article will follow the 3D reconstruction of clothes’ movements planned in 2019-2020 at Copenhagen and Oxford Universities.

See http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/dance/

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20.11.2019. “Sensory Rituals: Textiles and Adornment in Ancient Dance”. Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars.

Venue: School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, UK.

This conference focuses on textiles motion, acoustics and visuality through Etruscan iconography and more specifically through representations of dance. Focusing on hearing, sound, body movement, and visuality invite to think about the question of the senses in Antiquity and to look at sensory anthropology, otherwise known as anthropology of the senses. For twenty years, the study of the senses is experiencing a major development in human sciences and is part of a new research dynamic called “sensory anthropology”. In this context, dance is considered as a poly-sensory experience, and it was possibly part of the funerary ritual in Etruria. It created a sensory environment around the dead, and around the tomb, and stimulated the sensory perceptions of the participants.

07.11.2019. “Iconic Textiles. The Visual Representation of Etruscan Dresses (8^th-5^th BCE)”. Centre for Textile Research Seminars

Venue: Centre for Textile Research, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Iconography is not a new source in clothing research. As archaeological remains are very few, it is the only reliable source we have. Thus, knowledge of Etruscan clothing is primarily derived from many visual sources. Etruscan clothing depicted on figurines, statues, vases and tomb paintings has been extensively studied by Larissa Bonfante in her book Etruscan Dress, published in 1975, and reedited in 2003, as well as in her numerous articles. Her work has been completed by Margarita Gleba’s which focuses on textile production. This conference aims at presenting the Etruscan visual sources and the different form of costumes and textiles found in iconography.

23.10.2019. “Textiles in Etruscan Dance: A New Research Project”. Centre for Textile Research Cenferences

Venue: Centre for Textile Research Conference. Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

The conference aims at presenting the new Marie Skłodowska-Curie research project entitled TEXDANCE. Textiles in Etruscan Dance (8^th-5^th cent. BC) conducted at the Centre for Textiles Research, University of Copenhagen. This project builds on the results that have emerged from investigations undertaken during my PhD, completed in December 2017, on visual evidences of Etruscan dance and body movements. The study of Etruscan dress in representations of dance gives complementary information, and permits to better understand the king of dance and the kind of movement represented in pictures, and eventually to draw phases of movement.

26-27.09.2019. “Figure-Decorated Textiles in Classical Etruscan Art”. Conference at the International Workshop on Textiles in Art in the Graeco-Roman World.

Venue:  Classical Art Research Centre (CARC), University of Oxford, UK.

In Etruscan art, representations of textiles show numerous kinds of patterns. They often allows us to distinguish the material of which the textile was made. This conference focuses on representations of complex figural scenes on garments. The only example known until today is the figures on the mantle of Vel Sathies in the 4th century BC François Tomb in Vulci. It is an extraordinary case study regarding the complexity of the patterns and the visual program of the tomb in which it is inserted. Thus, the conference proposes answers to the following questions: what is the pattern of the Vel Saties’ mantle? what kind of mantle is it and what does it tell us about the Etruscan ritual practices? what social and symbolical status does the mantle indicate? and how can we understand this mantle in the entire decoration-program of the famous François Tomb in Vulci?

12-13.09.2019. “Gendered Adornment in Archaic and Classical Etruria”. Conference at International Workshop on Adornment as Expression of Everyday Identity in Ancient and Medieval Life.

Venue: Istituto di Norvegia in Roma, Università di Oslo, Italy.

Etruscan jewellery has always been interpreted as luxury good or aristocratic item. A new study of Etruscan dress and jewels from visual imagery of ritual practices and performances contributes to understand differently how adornment was used to express various aspects of identity in Etruria. The conference focuses on tomb paintings from Tarquinia and funerary reliefs from Chiusi. It aims at defining the types of adornment, the expression of a gendered identity and the possible gendered adornment’s political and religious role in the community organisation.

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