Marialuisa Sales Ph.D. Performing Arts - Italy

Marialuisa Sales
Researcher and Dance Historian · Performer of Indian Performing Arts · MIUR Lecturer
orchestes@gmail.com · www.marialuisasales.it · ORCID: 0009-0003-3641-917X

Researcher and historian of Indian performing arts, with over thirty years of activity as a performer of Bharatanāṭyam, Oḍiśī, and the dance-theatre form Kūṭiyāṭṭam. President of the Institute for Comparative Choreological Studies in Rome (ISCC – Orchestés) and MIUR lecturer, she has presented papers at the International Dance Council UNESCO, at MAXXI, and at the Universities of Roma Tre, Catania, and Naples L'Orientale. Author of four monographs on classical Indian, Persian, and medieval Arabic dance. Her research brings together comparative history of the performing arts, ritual iconography, and performative practice.