Historical Dance Symposium: Lectures Online
Since many interested individuals are unable to travel to Burg Rothenfels for the symposium, Dance & History will be livestreaming the presentations via Zoom. We will be using the subtitle featur…
New videos online!
We have new videos on our YouTube channel! In them, Silvia Bier presents the Thurnau Dance Booklet from the late 18th century, Lidija Podlesnik Tomašikova discusses the “Laibacher Deutscher,” a varia…
Couple Turning Study Group: We’re on board!
About a year ago, a group of ethnochoreologists and dance historians came together to study the origins and spread of turning dances—such as the waltz, polka, and dreher. From our association, Hanna…
Dance Day 2026: "Der Kurfürst tanzt mit"
Our Dance Day 2026 will be all about Dresden and dancing at noble weddings in the 17th century.
Sunday, April 12, 2024, in Erlangen
With our Dance Day, we want to complement our general meeting wit…
International Conference about Pierre Rameau
300 years of Pierre Rameau's “Maitre à danser”: Enseigner la manière. Les traités techniques de danse (1700-1750)
International conference in Paris: December 11–13, 2025
Rameau's dance manual is co…
Our 6th Symposium: Registration now open!
After extensive preparations, everything is now ready to go. The castle has recently opened registration for our next symposium. Under the motto “Transitions – Dance in Times of Change, 1400–1900,” w…
Oxford Annual Symposium 2026: Call for Papers
The Annual Oxford Symposium is one of our long-standing cooperation partners. The conference is a small but high-profile event held at New College, Oxford, a wonderful setting for an academic confere…
Book publication Taubert, Volumes 3-4
There are new publications in our book series “tanz | dokumente”!
Our “trilogy” of shorter works by Leipzig dance master Gottfried Taubert is now complete. Volume 3 of our series presents the previo…
Happy Birthday, Jane! A Ball on 22 November
Jane Austen's birthday is coming up soon – and we're going to celebrate! Look forward to a festive ball with country dances and cotillions from around 1800, accompanied by energetic live music from “…
Dance with Mozart and Goethe!
Under this motto, we are currently creating a series of videos demonstrating the most common dance forms of the period, each with an introduction by Jadwiga Nowaczek. The ensemble “La Danza, Munich”…