2024 marks the 450th birth anniversary of Anne of Denmark, the first Queen of Scotland, England, and Ireland. She is 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.
The 2024 conference programme includes nineteen papers by researchers from Europe and America, bringing to life the problems and challenges faced by women in the dance field since the early 14th century, as well as their achievements and successes.
We would like to invite everyone interested in dance and dance history for:
19 October, 4 pm @Dance Base:
Prof Clare McManus’s talk (Northumbria University) ‘Women on the ropes: rope-dancing and embodiment in seventeenth-century Europe and two dance workshops.’
19 October, 5:30 pm @Institut Francais Ecosse:
Irène Feste’s (Company Danses au (Pas)sé, France, www.irenefeste.com dance workshop ‘Guaracha, danse espagnole ou nouvelle Cachucha, composée pour la Princesse Augusta’
20 October 4 pm; Dance Base:
Susan de Guardiola’s (USA, www.kickery.com) dance workshop ‘Mrs Henderson Double Quadrille’
Locations:
Dance Base, 14-16 Grassmarket, EH1 2JU
Institut Francais Ecosse, West Parliament Square, EH1 1RF
More information and registration: www.eadh.com/events
The European Association for Dance History is grateful to the Consulate General of France in Edinburgh and Glasgow, the French Institute in Scotland, the University of the Highlands and Islands’ Student Development grant funded by Renewable Energy Systems (RES) and Dance & History e.V (Germany) for their help and support in organising the 2024 Conference.
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