51st Summer School of the HDS
"Theatre, ball and country dances and the music of the eighteenth century"
take centre stage during the 51st Summer School of the Historical Dance Society from 4th to 11th August, 2019, again locate…
Don't miss it!
There is only one month left to our deadline (1 June) for submissions to the international symposium
The Ball Pleasure - Power - Politics 1400 - 1900 10 - 14 June 2020
We are looking for submission…
Conference about 19th-century ballet
A Call for Papers.
Our cooperation partners Derra de Moroda Dance Archives, Salzburg and AIRDanza, Italy, together with aCD invite to an international conference about 19th-century ballet on 28 - 30…
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 beginnin…
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 is…
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, P…
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 pr…
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, in…
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 sev…