The Early Dance Circle is pleased to invite historical dance professionals and amateurs for its Biennial Conference postponed from 2020. The Conference will start with a dinner on Friday night, followed by a weekend of lectures, dance workshops and performances.
On Saturday evening we’ll all be dancing to live music (no costume required and all dances called).
Here is a foretaste of the topics on offer:
• Paul Cooper, Dances and Dancers, prestigious London balls c.1800-1820
• Berenike Heiter, Reconstructing a Second Half of the 18thC Country Dance Repertoire
in Connection with the Central German Provincial Court of Schönburg-Waldenburg
• Beatrice Pfister, Pantomime Ballet as a Mirror of the 18th Century: society and
politics of the Enlightenment
• Petra Dotlacilova, Retrieving Dance of the Past through Costume
• Michaela Mettel, Re-enacting Historical Dance as part of Art and Cultural Education
• Susan de Guardiola, Les Ronds Extraordinaires
• Tiziana Leucci, Between Europe, India, Java and America: Sharing and Migration of
Dance Styles in Jean Cébron’s Choreographic and Pedagogical Systems.
• Christine Bayle, A sophisticated dance practice, in its past and future, both healthy and
beautiful
• Dorothea Sauer, The Method of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze and its Consequences for the
Development of Modern Dance in Europe
• Anne Daye, Finding our Footing: a Discussion of the Evidence for a Social Dance
Step Vernacular to these Islands
• Bill Tuck, Curious Conjunctions: The various inter-weavings between Ralph Vaughan
Williams, Cecil Sharp and Isadora Duncan, 1910-1920
• Barbara Segal, Some Observations on the Concept of ‘Country Dance’
• Hillary Burlock, Politicised Publications: dance manuals and tunebooks in Georgian
Britain
• Alena Shmakova & Mats Melin, Exploring Jacobite themes in Scottish country dance
collections of the 18th century
• Matthew Spring, Dancing opportunities on a family stay in eighteenth-century Bath
• Larraine Nicholas, On the Appeal of Authenticity: The Dance of the Seven Veils in
early 20th Century London
• Helena Kazarova, Topic to be announced
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WORKSHOPS
• Hazel Dennison, Canario Siciliana, or The Diplomatic Dancing Master
• Anne Daye, Dancing at the Barriers
• Susan de Guardiola, Workshop on Regency/19C dance
• Christine Bayle, The Bourée in the Manuscript ‘Instruction pour dancer ‘
• Nira Pullin, The Ragtime Revolution - the Two Step/One Step, Dances that ended the
19th and began the 20th Centuries
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PERFORMANCES
• Christine Bayle & John Whitelaw, Dances from Instruction
• Tiziana Leucci, Introduction to South Indian Dance
• Barbara Segal & Bill Tuck in The Magical Toymaker
To register please fill the booking form attached and send to Barbara Segal. More information at www.earlydancecircle.co.uk/events