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February 15, 2025 — Submissions due for Shakespeare Association of America conference in Denver (April 1-4, 2026)

March 19-22, 2025 — Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) and Renaissance Association of America (RSA) conferences in Boston (with 2-for-1 registration)

Dance and Embodiment Sessions and Events at RSA/SAA 2025

For session locations and other details, see the respective the SAA schedule and bulletin and the RSA program.

Wednesday, Mar. 19

Afternoon (pre-RSA workshop add-on, $35) — taught by Peggy Murray and Dorothy Olsson
6pm-7pm (SAA reception) — Cash bar

Thursday, Mar. 20

9am-10:20am (RSA roundtable) — “What dances shall we have?” Staging, Reconstructing, and Adapting Historical Dances
9am-10:20am (RSA panel) — Circulation of Choreographic Practices and Knowledge in the Pan-Hispanic World: Social, Religious, and Political Dynamics
9am-9:20am (RSA paper) — The Heart Dances: Moving and Being Moved in The Winter’s Tale (Lynne Magnusson)
11am-12:30pm (RSA workshop) — Danzas y Andanzas: The Spanish Canario from Street to Court, from Europe to the Americas (K. Meira Goldberg and Anna de la Paz)
11:40am-12pm (RSA paper) — Moving Through Space: Paradise Lost and the Cosmic Dance (Erin O'Keefe)
12:30-1:30pm (social) — dance scholars and practitioners lunch (please join us! just just email Emily at contact@winerock.com)
1:30pm-3pm (SAA roundtable) — Performance as Research: Scholar/Theatermaker Collaborations at the Red Bull
3:30pm-5:30pm (SAA Seminar) — Performing Bodies in Early Modern Drama Part 1
8pm-10pm (SAA reception) — SAA annual reception

Friday, Mar. 21

7:30am-8:30am (SAA) — Shakespeare yoga
11am-11:20am (RSA paper) — People and Places on the Margins in the Christmas Plays by Sor Juana de Jesús (Valerie Hegstrom)
11am-1pm (SAA seminar — Performing Bodies in Early Modern Drama Part 2
1:30pm-3pm (SAA luncheon) — only for SAA registrants
3:10-3:30pm (RSA paper) — “So That the Memory of Blacks is not Lost”: Afro-Iberian Municipal Musicians (Javier Irigoyen-Garcia)
4pm-4:30pm (RSA reception) — Foger Institute afternoon tea
4:30-6pm (RSA lecture & reception) — Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender lecture and reception
5:40pm-5:50pm (RSA lightning talk) — Black Dances and Songs in Viceregal Mexico (18th Century): Radical Performance and the Inquisition (Silvia Ruiz-Tresgallo)
6:30pm-8pm (SAA performance) — Sonnets and Soliloquies: An Evening with The Sonnet Man (Devon Glover) — Hip-hop Shakespeare

Saturday, Mar. 22

7:30am-8:30am (SAA) — Shakespeare yoga
2:30-4pm (SAA panel) — Rethinking Masques
4:30pm-6:30pm (SAA workshop) — From the Galliard to Gangnam Style: A Workshop in Staging Historically-Informed Dances for Different-Era Productions
6:30-8pm (RSA performance) — ASIR: Music from 17th-century Istanbul
7:30pm-9:30pm (SAA performance) — Hamlet (Actors from the London Stage)
10pm-late (SAA social) — Malone Society Dance

May 15, 2025 -- Submissions due for Historical Dance Symposium in Burg Rothenfels, Germany (call for contributions)

June 24 — Virtual pre-conference
June 25 — Early Dance Working Group Annual Meeting (hybrid meeting, all welcome)
TBA — Days 1, 2, and 3 of the Early Dance Hub