Receiving hours
By appointment, on Tuesdays before or after the class, writing to the Professor: Marta.Mele@uniroma1.it.
Curriculum
Graduated with honors in "Literary and Linguistic Studies" at La Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis dedicated to ballets inspired by Alexander Pushkin's works, Marta Mele subsequently specialized in "History and Theory of Choreographic Art" at the Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg. In addition to taking care of international relations for various events dedicated to dance, she translated from Russian the autobiography of the dancer Natalia Makarova for Gremese publishing house. She also edited the Italian edition of the book "Swans of the Kremlin" by the scholar Christina Ezrahi. After having participated in two conferences dedicated to the bicentenary of the birth of the choreographer Marius Petipa, she won the PhD competition in Music and Performing Arts of the La Sapienza University of Rome (34th cycle, tutor Prof. Vito Di Bernardi). On 23 September 2022 she received her doctorate with an "excellent" rating discussing a thesis entitled "Ballet in Leningrad between avant-garde and ideology", from which two essays have already been published in the scientific journal «Biblioteca Teatrale».
Research products
Essays
- M. Mele, La discussione su Le fiamme di Parigi (dicembre 1932): la transizione verso il “coreodramma sovietico” riflessa nei dibattiti dell’epoca, in Annuario del Dottorato di ricerca in Musica e Spettacolo della Sapienza Università di Roma (Parte Prima), «Biblioteca Teatrale» n. 136, Bulzoni, Rome 2022, pp. 87-105. (In Italian language)
- M. Mele, La codificazione dei processi compositivi del coreodramma sovietico. Il caso de La fontana di Bachčisaraj, in V. Di Bernardi (ed. by), L'opera coreografica e i suoi processi creativi, «Biblioteca Teatrale» n. 134, Bulzoni, Rome 2020, pp. 127-146. (In Italian language)
- M. Mele, Petipa attraverso lo sguardo di Natalia Makarova, in D. Gavrilovich, A. Corea (ed. by), Marius Petipa, lo Zar del balletto classico (1818-1910). Danza, musica, arte e società, UniversItalia, Rome 2019, pp. 161-170. (In Italian language)
- M. Mele, «Spjaščaja krasavica» na scene Rimskogo opernogo teatra, in Bulletin of Vaganova Ballet Academy, 1, 2019, pp. 27-61. (In Russian language)
Editing works
- C. Ezrahi, I Cigni del Cremlino, ed. by M. Mele, Gremese, Rome 2017. (In Italian language)
Translations
- N. Makarova, La danza, la mia vita, translated from Russian by M. Mele, Gremese, Rome 2015. (In Italian language)