Maria Cumani Quasimodo
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Emerging from Milan, she honed her technique under the guidance of Jia Ruskaja before entering the artistic circles of mid-twentieth-century Italy. After a personal partnership with poet Salvatore Quasimodo began in 1936, she launched her professional dance career in 1937, quickly developing a distinctive “poetic dance” style that fused movement with verse. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s she expan…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
