Early Dance Resources

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Cancelled! June 19, 2025 Early Dance Working Group writing discussion with Susan de Guardiola 

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June 25-29, 2025 — Dance Studies Association (DSA) annual meeting in Washington, DC
-- Registration details (including virtual-only attendance) 

• Tuesday, June 24

  • Virtual Pre-conference

• Wednesday, June 25

  • 10am-11am (in-person field trip) -- Dance at the Folger Shakespeare Library, with Special Collections Curator Johnna Champion -- registration full

  • 4pm-5:30pm (in-person meeting) -- Dancing in the Long Nineteenth Century Working Group Annual Meeting

• Thursday, June 26

  • 9am-10:30am Early Dance HUB 1 (in-person panel)

    • "Ancient Dance as a Way of Life" (Martii Palohemo);

    • "The Practice of Theory: Reconstructing a 16th-Century Balletto" (Nona Monahin);

    • "Dancing the English Civil War" (Seth Stewart Williams)

  • 11am-12:30pm 19th-Century HUB 1 (in-person panel)

  • 4pm-5:30pm Practice as Research HUB 1 (in-person)

• Friday, June 27

  • 9am-10:30am Early Dance HUB 2 (virtual panel)

    • "Rehearsals as Spectacles: Dance Knowledge and Practice on the Ancient Greek Stage (5th century BCE)" (Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar);

    • "Between Theory and Practice: Challenges in Dance Historiography and the Case of Early Dance" (Eulàlia Polls);

    • “The Problem with Pantomime: Silent Voices in 18th-century Story Ballet” (Amanda Moehlenpah)

  • 11am-12:30pm 19th-Century HUB 2 (in-person panel)

  • 4pm-5:30pm Practice as Research HUB 2 (in-person)

  • 5:30-8pm New York Baroque Dance Company performs at Hillwood Gardens (in-person outdoor concert, ​ticket info​)

• Saturday, June 28

  • 9am-10:30am Early Dance HUB 3 (in-person workshop)

    • “Kellom Tomlinson’s Sequences for Teaching” (Ken Pierce);

    • “Theorizing Medieval Dance Composition and Performance: A Practical Workshop” (Karen Silen)

  • 11am-12:30pm 19th-Century HUB 3 (in-person panel)

  • 4pm-5:30pm Practice as Research HUB 3 (in-person)

• Sunday, June 29

  • 9am-10:30am (virtual meeting) -- Early Dance Working Group Annual Meeting -- all are welcome!

 

July 9-12, 2025 -- ​European Shakespeare Research Association​ conference in Oporto, Portugal

 

July 11-18, 2025 -- ​Historical Dance Society Annual Summer School​ (late Renaissance focus) in Bromsgrove, West Midlands, UK

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Oct. 1, 2025 — ​Submissions due for 2026 Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Conference (April 16-19, 2026) in Greeley, Colorado, hosted by the University of Northern Colorado

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February, 19-21 -- ​Renaissance Society of America Conference​ in San Francisco

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April 1-4, 2026 -- ​Shakespeare Association of America Conference​ in Denver, Colorado

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April 16-19, 2026 — ​Society for Seventeenth-Century Music​ Conference in Greeley, Colorado

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June 3-7, 2026 — ​Historical Dance Symposium​ (June 3-7, 2026) in Burg Rothenfels, Germany

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July 20-26, 2026 — ​​World Shakespeare Congress​ in Verona, Italy

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