The annual European Association for Dance History 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.
Join us for two and a half days of stimulating discussion about the history of women in dance in Scotland and beyond in Dance Base and French Institute of Scotland in Edinburgh. The conference includes 19 papers from British and international researchers, a keynote on 'Women on the ropes: rope-dancing and embodiment in seventeenth-century Europe', two dance workshops on 19th-century social and theatrical dance repertoires and a walking tour about dancing mistresses in Georgian Edinburgh.
The conference is organised in cooperation with Dance & History e.V.(Germany) and supported by the University of the Highlands and Islands Student Development Fund (funded by RES) and the Institut Français and the Consulat Général de France.
More information and booking:https://www.eadh.com/events