Madeleine Inglehearn (President)
Madeleine Inglehearn studied early dance under Wendy Hilton, following which she began her own research work on the dance treatises and notations of the renaissance and baroque, specialising in recreating the dances of 17th and 18th century French and English dancing masters. She was for many years Professor of dance history at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.
Giannandrea Poesio (Chairman)
Giannandrea Poesio is Reader in Dance at the University of Bedfordshire and the dance critic for The Spectator. His research on nineteenth-century ballet mime and Italian ballet practices has appeared in several specialised publications and has informed his work as consultant/reconstructor for various international dance, opera and drama companies. He is co-editor of La Danza in Italia (2009) and author of To and By Enrico Cecchetti (2010).
Sheila Dickie (Secretary)
Sheila Dickie is Senior Lecturer in Dance History at Birkbeck University of London and visiting lecturer at Middlesex University and the Royal Academy of Dance. She is interested in dance and older people and teaches and performs in this area.
Patricia Daly
Patricia Daly developed an interest in dance history as a teenager. She was on the staff of Dancing Times for 19 years and has also contributed to Dance Today, Ballroom Dancing Times and Dance International.
Elena Grillo
Elena Grillo is dance historian and critic and former teacher and director of research at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza in Rome.
Cara Drower
Cara Drower MA FISTD is an International examiner and marker for the Cecchetti Society Faculty of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. In her capacity as Director of the Cecchetti Centre in London for a number of years she organised events for the promotion of the Cecchetti work. She currently contributes reviews and articles to various publications in this country and abroad.
Kathrina Farrugia
Managing a portfolio career as dance academic, educator and choreographer, Kathrina Farrugia is Lecturer in Dance Studies and e-Learning Co-Ordinator, leading the creative and pedagogical insights for online teaching & learning technologies for undergraduate and post-graduate programmes of study at the Faculty of Education (Royal Academy of Dance).
Her Ph.D. thesis outlines transmodern dance practices through reading the work of Angelin Preljocaj, Mauro Bigonzetti and revisions of Les Noces (1923). Kathrina set up dance company three-fortyone dances (www.three-fortyonedances.co.uk) in 2003, touring fringe festivals of Edinburgh (2004) and Brighton (2007) as well as other European venues (2005, 2006). Her guest lecturing credits include the Drama Department at Rhodes University (South Africa) as well as conference presentations at Stanford University (SDHS), De Montfort University (CORD) and at the Dance Research Forum Ireland.
Daniel G. Cabrero
Daniel is a filmmaker living between London and Madrid. He holds a BA(Hons) in Media Arts & Video Production and a MA in Screenwriting (Goldsmiths’ College - University of London).
Daniel has developed a genuine interest and specializes in documenting dance history through film. His feature film directorial debut is entitled My Paths Through Dance – an internationally premiered biographical documentary on Spanish dancer, choreographer, company director and academic Mariemma (1917- 2008). Daniel has grasped a wide knowledge on the lives and work of 20th Century Spanish dancers and ballet masters, and he has presented some of his findings through multimedia presentations at the World Dance Conference - CID-UNESCO, The Spanish Dance Society in London, El Ateneo deMadrid or La Bienal de Sevilla. At the moment Daniel is raising funds to make his next dance documentary through a PhD multimedia research project. Daniel is a committee member of the European Association of Dance Historians.
Michael Robertson
Michael Robertson has enjoyed a long career in professional music-making as a harpsichordist, organist, conductor, teacher and academic. He is a specialist in early music and studied with the internationally renowned harpsichordist, Gustav Leonhardt. He has performed in many of the major London concert halls including the Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall and St. John's Smith Square. In 2004, Michael gained a doctorate from the University of Leeds following his research into the seventeenth-century German consort suite. His critically acclaimed book, The Courtly Consort Suite in German- speaking Europe (1650-1706) was published in 2009. Michael also edits seventeenth-century dance music for publication in both England and Germany and is an occasional contributor to various academic journals.
