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EADH Online Lecture Series, 2026
Dance Histories
The first session of the Dance Histories online talk series will kick off on 29 January 2026 with a joint event in partnership with the RSCDS, bringing together influential historical research and rare archival sources.
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29th January (18:30 - 19:45):
Dance & The Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment by Professor Bob Harris, and
Dancing in Burns’s Time by Alan Macpherson​
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12th March (18.30-19.30):
Questioning exceptional contexts: writing and working as a female dancer/choreographer in the early 19th Century by Bruno Ligore (Université Côte d’Azur)
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9th July (18.30-19.30):
Five Decades of Artistry and Innovation with The New York Baroque Dance Company by Catherine Turocy
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For detailed schedule, abstracts, and biographies please follow the link:​​
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EADH members can access the talk free of charge.
Existing members please enrol by email, outlining which lectures you wish to attend.
Non‑members: £8 per talk or £20 for the whole series.
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The event link will be sent to the email address you registered with on the day of the talk.
All times advertised are UK GMT.
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BOOKING CLOSED
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Lecture 1 - Prof Bob Harris and Alan Macpherson, 29 January 2026
'Dance & the Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment' / 'Dancing in Burn's Time'
Lecture 2 - Bruno Ligure, 12 March 2026
'Questioning exceptional contexts'
Lecture 3 - Catherine Turocy, 9 July 2026
'50 Years of the New York Baroque Dance Company'
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RMA-SMI-EADH Conference 2026
Sat 29 August - Tues 1 September 2026
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Hosted by SARC: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music at Queen's University Belfast
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The EADH 2026 annual conference will be hosted by Queen’s University Belfast, 29 August-1 September 2026, and organised in collaboration with the Royal Musical Association and the Society for Musicology in Ireland. This is a major international conference aiming to promote research and practice in music, sound, or dance across all repertories, contexts, methodologies and approaches.
Registration is now open at a dedicated page on the Queens University Belfast website.
The programme is available by clicking here.
There are 18 panels with dance or dance-related papers, and a keynote address on 29 August by Professor Michael Burden (New College, Oxford):
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When Medea’s Flaming Chariot Came to Town; Jean-Georges Noverre’s Jason et Médée in London
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REGISTRATION REQUIRED for the following special event:
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1 September, 13:15- 15:00
Venue: Lecture Room, Music building, Queen’s University Belfast
‘Dancers who lunch: an EADH panel on methods and perspectives’
- Chair: Professor Michael Burden (New College, Oxford)
- Annalee Tull Lanier (Queen’s University Belfast): Appalachian Dance in dialogue with Scottish and Irish percussive dance
- Silvia Garzarella (University of Bologna): Studying Rudolf Nureev: Sources and Research Perspectives for a Digital Study of Ballet
- Keith Cavers (Independent Scholar): Looking through both ends of the telescope: Finding pictures of dancers & Identifying dance pictures.
This more informal session will be accompanied by a buffet lunch.
Tickets £14 REGISTER ON THE BUTTON BELLOW by 15 August 2026.
The
Madeleine Inglehearn Memorial Event
18.30 (BST) 16 May 2026
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 funded by a bequest from Madeleine's estate and the support of the Inglehearn family.
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In 2026 we were delighted to welcome distinguished academic and dance historian Françoise Dartois-Lapeyre, who presented her comprehensive lecture Madeleine Inglehearn’s contribution to early dance research and revival, detailing the many aspects of Madeleine's career and research interests.
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Details for the 2027 lecture to be posted in due time. Meanwhile, you may wish to visit the Tribute page to Madeleine Inglehearn.
All lectures on this series are free for all members and the general public.​​​​​​​​​​
Françoise Dartois-Lapeyre
Holding a degree from the École Normale Supérieure (Fontenay-aux-Roses), F. Dartois-Lapeyre has been an Associate Professor at Sorbonne University (Paris IV-INSPE), teaching Modern History, and is now devoted to research at Sorbonne University – Roland Mousnier Center.
Her thesis, written in 1983, concerns Dancing at the time of Opéra-Ballet. In addition she has published numerous articles covering court ballet, the Commedia dell’Arte, Rameau operas, and performances of the Royal Academy of Music, Opéra-Comique and Comédie-Française.
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F. Dartois-Lapeyre has contributed to the Dictionary of music in France in the 17th and 18 th centuries (ed. M. Benoît, Fayard, 1992), the Dictionary of the Ancien Régime (ed. L. Bély, PUF, 1996), the Dictionary of Women in the Age of Enlightenment (éd. H. Krieff et V. André, H. Champion, 2015) and to the Dictionary of the Paris Opéra under the Ancien Régime, 1669-1792 (éd. S. Bouissou, P. Denécheau et F. Marchal-Ninosque, Classiques Garnier, 2019-2020). She is now continuing her research with Ballet masters and Dancers in the 18th century.