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

EADH conference, 2025

Histories of European Dance behind the Borders:

Mobility, Influence, and Impact

Fri 21 - Sun 23 November 2025

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An entirely online conference hosted by 

Queen's University Belfast

* image from the John Gill collection

With a KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Debra H Sowell and Madison U Sowell
Illustrating Mobility and Documenting Connections in 19th-century Ballet:

Examples from the Sowell Collection

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This conference will explore how dance works, dance practices, and dancers travelled, exerted or absorbed influence, and made an impact.

 

PROGRAMME

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DAY ONE: Friday 21 November

 

10:00 Welcome and conference start

 

10:15 Nations in Harmony and Rivalry

  • Il Gimnasta – Illuminating a European Network of Itinerant Dancer-Acrobats in the middle of the 18th Century, Gerrit Berenike Heiter (University of Vienna, Austria)

  • The Noverre-Angiolini Dispute as a Rivalry Between Nations: Cultural Politics of European Dance in 18th -Century Italy, Béatrice Pfister

  • The Chronicles of British and Anglo-Irish Travellers during the Colonial Era in Ireland: An Important Source for the Preservation of Irish Dance, Sharon Phelan (Munster Technological University)

 

Break circa 12:00.

 

13:00 Ballets crossing Borders

  • La fille mal gardée: updating its early performance history, Alan Jones (Paris)

  • Charting the Spread of Dauberval’s Ballets, Keith Cavers

  • Women in Peril, can Travel, Sarah McCleave (Queen’s University Belfast)

 

14:45 Popcorn /tea/ aperitif and chat time: La Fille mal gardée. Delegates are invited to nominate scenes/performances you’d like us to sample, on which you’d be prepared to say a few words what you find interesting or what you suggest we look for in the performance. Alternatively, recollections of performances from a participant’s perspective are very welcome. Deadline for nominations (Online video URLS requested at this time): 1 September, to eadhchair@gmail.com

 

 

16:15 The impact of Eastern Europe on ballet practices

  • A look into interwar Latvian Ballet: Mobility, Repertoire, and Ballet masters, Gonzalo Preciado Azanza (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

  • From violin to piano: changing accompaniment for ballet classes in Europe and the Russian empire, Dr. Viktoria Grynenko (Edmonton, Canada)

 

END of DAY ONE

 

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DAY TWO: Saturday 22 November

 

10:00 Social dance in court and city.

  • The Admirable Crichton of Sanquhar: dancing to his death in the Court of Mantua 1581, Darren Royston and Penelope Boff (Nonsuch), 

  • European Social Dance and the Making of Modern Seoul: Transnational Influence and Urban Culture, 1920s–1930s, Mina Yang (Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea)

 

Break circa 11:00

 

11:15 Ballroom dancing in England and France

  • The cosmopolitan nature of dances in English ballrooms during the first three decades of the eighteenth century, Jennifer Thorp (New College, Oxford)

  • Pierre Rameau’s Rules: Le maître à danser, Christine Bayle (Cie BELLES DANSES)

 

Break circa 12:30

 

1:15 Transmission of Social Dance

  • The Spanish Contradanza and the “Spanish Country Dance”, Susan de Guardiola

  • Urbi et Orbi: Subscription Networks and Dance Transmission in Scotland (1770s–1820s), Alena Shmakova (Danse Antique)

 

Break circa 14:30

 

14:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Debra H Sowell (Southern Virginia University emerita) and Madison U Sowell (Brigham Young University emeritus): Documenting Mobility and Connections in 19th-century Ballet:

Examples from the Sowell Collection

 

15:45 Popcorn /tea/ aperitif and chat time: Intriguing Images: A discussion session led by Keith Cavers and John Gill. Conference delegates can nominate one painting or sketch each, about which they will either say a few words on its interest /intrigue or pose a question to the discussion leads. Deadline for submission of images and queries: 1 September, to eadhchair@gmail.com.

 

 

End of DAY TWO

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DAY THREE: Sunday, 23 November

 

14:00 Choreographers

  • A European Influence Abroad: Léonide Massine’s Impact on Dance in America, Lisa Fusillo (University of Georgia, USA).

 

  • Rudol’f Nureev’s Legacy in the European Ballet Scene, Silvia Garzarella (University of Bologna, Italy)

 

15:15 Break

 

15:30 International Figures

  • Europe, India, Americas and beyond: for a ‘connected history’ of the Jean  Cébron (1927-2019) dance pedagogical method, Tiziana Leucci (CESAH, EHESS, Paris-Aubervilliers)

  • Cataloging the Stage: The Mission of Henri Justamant, Dominique Bourassa (Metadata Librarian, Yale University Library)

 

16:40 Announcements and conference close

 

End of DAY THREE

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CONFERENCE FEES

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£10 members; £40 non-members.

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The reduced 'members fees' is for those who contracted membership before 1st September 2025

 

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A few days before the conference you will receive an email with the unique conference link, as well as a conference programme with abstracts and programme notes of the accepted presentations.

 
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