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Events

Forthcoming Conferences
The EADH organises annual conferences, each of them taking place in different host European countries.

EADH conference, 2024
Women in Dance:
Patronage, Performance, Pedagogy

Fri 18 - Sun 20 October 2024

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Institut Français

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Dance Base, Scotland’s National Centre for Dance

Edinburgh, Scotland

The annual conference brings together international research, new reconstructions and critical debate in dance and performing arts history. 2024 marks the 450th birth anniversary of Anne of Denmark, the first Queen of Scotland, England and Ireland, and also a crucial woman in the history of female performance due to her patronage and participation in masques, theatrical and dancing productions at the Stuart court. Women in Dance: Patronage, Performance and Pedagogy pays homage to this anniversary and other important figures and events under this topic.

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Speakers and papers:

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FRIDAY 18 -Institut Français​

Susan Hamlin​Carolyn Carlson, American superstar in France

Callysta CroizerA Russian in the tropics

Christine BayleWhen the lady dances

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Alena Shmakova, Dr Lucy Dean, Dr Dr Lesley Mickel - Women in Dance in Early Modern Scotland

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SATURDAY 19 - DanceBase

Moira GoffForgotten ballerinas: Female professional dancers on the London stage, 1700-1750

Keith Cavers - A New Look at Giovanna Baccelli

Alena Shmakova​The circus princess: Versatile Mrs Parker between Edinburgh, Dublin and London

 

Birte Hoffman-Cabenda‘Die Taglioni des Nordens’ Katharina Lanner and the Stadttheater in Hamburg

Susan de Guardiola​​​​​Mrs. Nicholas Henderson: A dance mistress in mid-19th century London

 

Giulia di PierroThe choreutic performance of lust in the Psychomachia manuscripts

Maria Victoria Curto​​Spiritual dance and recognition of women in the sermons of Juana de la Cruz (1481- 1534)

 

Clare McManus (keynote speaker)​ - Women on the ropes: rope-dancing and embodiment in seventeenth-century Europe

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Institut Français

Irene Feste, Company Danses au (Pas)sé – Guaracha, danse espagnole ou nouvelle Cachucha, composée pour la Princesse Augusta (Workshop)

 

 

SUNDAY 20 - DanceBase

Anne DayeFemale power and female frailty: Anne of Denmark’s leadership in dance 1603 – 1611

Lynn Matluck BrooksFanny and phrenology: An American reading of ballerina Fanny Elssler

Andrea HarrisMargaret H’Doubler’s ‘civilizing force’: Dance education, science, and therapeutics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

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Susan Cook“Grace and true inwardness”: Aida Overton Walker and the transatlantic Cakewalk

Mary Barres Riggs​New perspectives on Kathleen Crofton and Bronislava Nijinska in Buffalo, New York

Lisa Fusillo, with Eva Tarp - The stars aligned and Venus danced: The remarkable Ballet career of Nini Theilade

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Sharon PhelanFemale Irish dancers: Historical and cultural perspectives

Sarah McCleave - The Paris Opéra as Employer: The Benefits and Disadvantages for its Danseuses.'

Jane PritchardDancing in the park

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Susan de Guardiola - Mrs. Henderson’s double Quadrille (workshop)

For a detailed schedule, please download the programme in the link:

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Full conference fee, member: £120

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Full conference fee, non-member: £160

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Full conference fee, concessions*: £80

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Prof McManus keynote only, Sat 19: £10

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Irene Feste workshop only, Sat 19: £10

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Susan de Guardiola workshop only, Sun 20: £ free admission

Conference fees admits one delegate for all activities, including Irene's Feste workshop and Prof McManus's keynote speech, plus lunches and refreshments.

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The conference dinner on Saturday night will attract extra fees.

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* For eligibility for concessions, please contact us before proceeding.

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in cooperation with Dance & History e.V.

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supported by UHI’s Student Development Fund, funded by RES

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supported by the Institut Français and the Consulat Général de France

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* images from Keith Cavers' private collection

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