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In unsettled times marked by conflicts and threats, the conference proposes a reflection on how politics, war and peace have affected and/or have been represented in dance throughout history.

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Join us for three days of intensive intelectual reflection and physical incitement, covering a wide range of specialities and time periods, brought forward by the exponents in dance history:

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Britta Wenn & Hassan Khalil

Tahtib – From pharaonic martial art and soldier training to an Egyptian folk dance

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Christine Bayle

Le Ballet de la Merlaison - Preparing for war

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Jane Gingell

Queen Christina’s ballets: feminist, pacifist and environmentalist

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Pilar Montoya Chica

La Guerra: Entremés nuevo de Antonio de Zamora (1716)

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Catarina Costa e Silva

Balle de las Danças

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Anne Deller & Kath Waters

The Marlborough – an English dance to celebrate a military victory

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Keith Cavers

Men are from Mars: Bellona’s buddies

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Sarah McCleave

Dancer and diplomat: the career of Emilie Bigottini

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Alena Schmakova

Political balls in the Scottish capital between 1746 and 1822

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Susan de Guardiola

Waltzing with the bear

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Lisa Fusillo

What is it about those Swans?  The politics of swans in war and peace

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Jane Pritchard

War and politics in music hall ballets

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Sharon Phelan

Dance as a political weapon during the Irish uprising against Britain at the turn of the twentieth century

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Anja Arend

A story of rescue - Khamma by Maud Allan and Claude Debussy (1911/12)

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Gonzalo Preciado-Azanza

The Three-Cornered Hat´s Aragonese jota, a dance conceived in times of war

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Carmel McKenna

Irish Céilí Dance as a vehicle for subversion in 1930s Ireland

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Susan Hamlin

Expatriate payback

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Tiziana Leucci

The triumph of death: War, Resistance & Exile in Kurt Jooss The Green Table. Death’s Dance (1932)

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Rosemarie Gerhard & Lauren Showler

British Ballet at War

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Anita Makuzsewska

Mankurt – choreographic images of the enslaved mind and body in Leonid Lebedev’s Legend of Donenbay Bird. Mankurt

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Thiago Alixandre Cunha

Choreodromocracy

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Workshops:​

Alena Shmakova

Dancing for the King: recreation of ‘Strathspey for two’ based on the Strathspey setting steps from the 'Contre-Danses à Paris, 1818' MS (Ms 3860, NLS)

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Anne Deller & Kath Waters

The Marlborough, countrydance

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Susan de Guardiola

Social dances celebrating the Franco-Russian Alliance

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You may join us in person or via Zoom.:

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> Full conference fee: £90

   In person attendance Fri 28 to Sun 30 October 2022

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> Student conference fee: £45

   In person attendance Fri 28 to Sun 30 October 2022

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> Online conference fee: £30

   Online attendance via Zoom from Fri 28 to Sun 30 October 2022

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