Sinibaldo De Rosa
Discipline: Drama
Project Summary
As part of urbanization, migration, folklorization and heretigization processes, over the last decades, the musical and choreographic traditions of the Alevis became a source of inspiration for several performing arts works. For instance, the Alevi semah-s, which are frequently considered to be at the nutshell of Alevi symbolism and of social life, have been re-invented beyond their primary ayin-i cem ritual context and adapted into novel artistic and transnational stages. Grounding my perspective in performance, anthropology and dance theories, as well as employing movement analysis tools (such as the Kinetography Laban), since 2009 I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in such artistic contexts, both in Turkey as well as abroad. Reflecting on the themes of embodiment, interactivity, participation and presentation in Alevism, I wish in this way to examine the historical changes in the transmission of semah movements and the participation into semah events.
Supervisory Team
Professor Jerri Daboo, Drama Department, University of Exeter https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/drama/staff/daboo/
Professor John Morgan O'Connell, School of Music, Cardiff University https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/142276-oconnell-john-morgan
Wider Research Interests
Performing Arts and Anthropology: Anthropology of Movement; Ethnochoreology and Ethnomusicology; Theatre, Music and Dance; Notation Systems; Ritual Analysis; Cultural Adaptation; Trans-disciplinarity; Collaborative and Perfomance Ethnography
Anthropology of the Middle East: Orientalism; Contemporary History of Turkey; Alevi Studies
Political Anthropology: Mobility and Transnationalism; Minorities and Inequalities; Violence
Fieldwork: Turkey, Western Europe
Authored Publications/Reports
Sinibaldo De Rosa (2019) Theatre Adaptation, Ritual Movements and Alevi Frontiers, Ritual, Tanz, Bühne, Walsdorf H. and Stocker K. (eds.)
Sinibaldo De Rosa (2016) Prompting a Dialogue between the Kinetography Laban and the Alevi Semah, Proceedings of the 29th ICKL Conference, Tours, France, 2015, Bastien M., Fugedi, J. (eds.), 51-71
Sinibaldo De Rosa (2020) Movement and Adaptation of the Alevi semah for the stage, Aesthetic and Performative Dimensions of Alevi Cultural Heritage, Greve, Özdemir and Motika (eds.)
