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Ballet Music
Not only music lovers will find this recently published book by Monika Woitas most interesting: Geschichte der Ballettmusik. Eine Einführung It outlines the development of the genre from its beginn...
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Symposium 2020 Call for Contributions
This is the first time, that our association acts as organiser of the upcoming Historical Dance Symposium in 2020. The conference topic is:
The Ball Pleasure - Power - Politics 1400 - 1900
Here i...
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Michel Saint-Léon
We already issued invitations to the first seminar of our project „tanz | perspektiven“.
„For the Royal Princesses of Württemberg“ - Choreographies around 1830 by Michel St. Léon with Irène Feste,...
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tanz | perspektiven
Currently, we are working on the conception of a series of classes that present significant topics with highly qualified instructors in various European Cities. Our first class of this series will ...
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tanz | dokumente
At our general meeting we presented our book series "tanz | dokumente" that we launched in collaboration with Hanna Walsdorf. She aims to offer new or not readily accessible sources to the public, ...
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Dubreil and Italy
The following article focuses on Baroque dance culture as reflected in the Italian jour-ney of prince elector Karl Albrecht in 1715/1716 which inspired his dancing master Pierre Dubreil to create s...
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Dance in French Baroque Opera
Rebecca Harris-Warrick’s "Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera" (2016) is another highlight that impressively disproves the notion that dance in a baroque opera was nothing more than an expendab...
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Instructions pour danser
After a conference in Tours on „Instructions pour danser“ (ca. 1612) in 2012, the conference proceedings have been published online by the Centre d’Études Superieures de la Renaissance. They includ...
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Tilden Russell
Let us begin our literature blog with a brand new book which was presented at the Taubert conference in Leipzig in October. Tilden Russell is one of the leading experts in the field of German Baroq...