Events
Forthcoming Conferences
The EADH organises annual conferences, each of them taking place in different host European countries.
EADH conference, 2023
'Queerness in Dance History'
Dates and venue to be announced soon
Utrech, The Netherlands

Details
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.
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:
Britta Wenn & Hassan Khalil
Tahtib – From pharaonic martial art and soldier training to an Egyptian folk dance
Christine Bayle
Le Ballet de la Merlaison - Preparing for war
Jane Gingell
Queen Christina’s ballets: feminist, pacifist and environmentalist
Pilar Montoya Chica
La Guerra: Entremés nuevo de Antonio de Zamora (1716)
Catarina Costa e Silva
Balle de las Danças
Anne Deller & Kath Waters
The Marlborough – an English dance to celebrate a military victory
Keith Cavers
Men are from Mars: Bellona’s buddies
Sarah McCleave
Dancer and diplomat: the career of Emilie Bigottini
Alena Schmakova
Political balls in the Scottish capital between 1746 and 1822
Susan de Guardiola
Waltzing with the bear
Lisa Fusillo
What is it about those Swans? The politics of swans in war and peace
Jane Pritchard
War and politics in music hall ballets
Sharon Phelan
Dance as a political weapon during the Irish uprising against Britain at the turn of the twentieth century
Anja Arend
A story of rescue - Khamma by Maud Allan and Claude Debussy (1911/12)
Gonzalo Preciado-Azanza
The Three-Cornered Hat´s Aragonese jota, a dance conceived in times of war
Carmel McKenna
Irish Céilí Dance as a vehicle for subversion in 1930s Ireland
Susan Hamlin
Expatriate payback
Tiziana Leucci
The triumph of death: War, Resistance & Exile in Kurt Jooss The Green Table. Death’s Dance (1932)
Rosemarie Gerhard & Lauren Showler
British Ballet at War
Anita Makuzsewska
Mankurt – choreographic images of the enslaved mind and body in Leonid Lebedev’s Legend of Donenbay Bird. Mankurt
Thiago Alixandre Cunha
Choreodromocracy
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)
Anne Deller & Kath Waters
The Marlborough, countrydance
Susan de Guardiola
Social dances celebrating the Franco-Russian Alliance
You may join us in person or via Zoom.:
> Full conference fee: £90
In person attendance Fri 28 to Sun 30 October 2022
> Student conference fee: £45
In person attendance Fri 28 to Sun 30 October 2022
> Online conference fee: £30
Online attendance via Zoom from Fri 28 to Sun 30 October 2022