Dr. Jennifer Nevile

Biography

Dr. Jennifer Nevile is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture. Her research interests focus on Italian, English, and French dance music from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, with a significant emphasis on choreographic analysis of individual works and genres. Dr. Nevile investigates the social and cultural contexts of dance practices and their relationships with contemporary artistic practices and intellectual movements. Among her notable works is her monograph, 'Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy' (2004), which explores how dance served as a mode of physical expression indicative of Renaissance humanism. Additionally, she has contributed to the collection of essays entitled 'Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750' (2008), further examining the inter-relationships between artistic practices over several centuries. Her research outputs also encompass various journal articles and book chapters that delve into topics including modes of dance transmission, the connection between dance and identity, performance practice issues, choreographic meaning, and the design principles of early modern choreographies in European grand gardens.

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