We have launched a series of yearly special lectures to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr Madeleine Inglehearn, the EADH former president and one of our co-founders. The series is kindly supported by the Inglehearn family and Madeleine's estate.

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This year we are delighted to welcome distinguished academic and dance historian Françoise Dartois-Lapeyre, who was also one of the EADH a co-founders with Madeleine.

The lecture is free for members. Please email us to book a place.

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Madeleine Inglehearn’s contribution to early dance research and revival

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One year after Madeleine Inglehearn passed away, I’m honoured to have been chosen to evoke her memory. To prolong her presence, I would like to evoke her place in the historiography of dance from my point of view as a French historian. She belongs to a generation of dancers eager to contribute to the rediscovery of dances from the early modern period (16th-18th centuries) through an original approach combining theoretical study and practice.

I will emphasize her interest in Feuillet notation and in dance treatises. Her knowledge of the minuet led her to publish a book on this subject and to make known the dancing master S.J. Gardiner.

I will highlight how her curiosity and open mind led her to play a major role in the direction of the EADH, which contributed to the development of an European vision of the evolution of theatrical and social dance.

Her research about ballet masters and dancers is conducted in-depth in her thesis, where she studied, among other things, the circulation of artists in England and between London and Paris in the 18th century. As a culmination, her precision in dance materialized in the form of an academic exercise of great intellectual rigour which testifies to an unusual and passionate journey.​​​​​​