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Early Dance Panels and Papers at DSA 2025
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June 25-29, 2025 — Dance Studies Association (DSA) annual meeting in Washington, DC
-- Registration details (including virtual-only attendance)
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Wednesday, June 25
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Dance at the Folger Shakespeare Library, with Special Collections Curator Johnna Champion
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Thursday, June 26
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Early Dance HUB 1 (in-person panel)
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"Ancient Dance as a Way of Life" (Martii Palohemo);
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"The Practice of Theory: Reconstructing a 16th-Century Balletto" (Nona Monahin);
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"Dancing the English Civil War" (Seth Stewart Williams)
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Friday, June 27
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Early Dance HUB 2 (virtual panel)
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"Rehearsals as Spectacles: Dance Knowledge and Practice on the Ancient Greek Stage (5th century BCE)" (Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar);
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"Between Theory and Practice: Challenges in Dance Historiography and the Case of Early Dance" (Eulàlia Polls);
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“The Problem with Pantomime: Silent Voices in 18th-century Story Ballet” (Amanda Moehlenpah)
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New York Baroque Dance Company performs at Hillwood Gardens
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Saturday, June 28
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Early Dance HUB 3 (in-person workshop)
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“Kellom Tomlinson’s Sequences for Teaching” (Ken Pierce);
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“Theorizing Medieval Dance Composition and Performance: A Practical Workshop” (Karen Silen)
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Sunday, June 29
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Early Dance Working Group Annual Meeting -- all are welcome! (virtual meeting)
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Early Dance Panels and Papers at SAA and RSA 2025
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​March 19-22, 2025 — Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) and Renaissance Association of America (RSA) conferences in Boston -- Selected Dance and Embodiment Sessions and Events
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(RSA roundtable) “What dances shall we have?” Staging, Reconstructing, and Adapting Historical Dances
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(RSA panel) Circulation of Choreographic Practices and Knowledge in the Pan-Hispanic World: Social, Religious, and Political Dynamics
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(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)
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(RSA paper) Moving Through Space: Paradise Lost and the Cosmic Dance (Erin O'Keefe)​
Friday, Mar. 21​
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(RSA lightning talk) Black Dances and Songs in Viceregal Mexico (18th Century): Radical Performance and the Inquisition (Silvia Ruiz-Tresgallo)
Saturday, Mar. 22​
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(RSA panel) Social Spaces of Swordplay and Competition in the Early Modern Playhouse
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(SAA panel) Rethinking Masques
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(SAA workshop) From the Galliard to Gangnam Style: A Workshop in Staging Historically-Informed Dances for Different-Era Productions
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Early Dance Panels and Papers at DSA 2024
(V) = virtual session (IP) = in-person session
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July 22-27, 2024 — ​Dance Studies Association annual conference​ in Buenos Aires
Tuesday
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Annual working group meeting (V, IP)
Wednesday
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Dancing (in) the Past I: Putting Ancient Dance on the Map (IP)
Wednesday
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Dancing (in) the Past II: Knowledge, Space, and Embodiment (IP)
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Early Dance Symposium 2024
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Early Dance Panels and Papers at DSA 2022
(V) = virtual session (IP) = in-person session
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Wednesday
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Radical Religion II: Historically Transformative Connections (V)
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Thursday, October 14
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Annual Meeting of the Early Dance Working Group (V)
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Friday
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Dance, Music, and Practice Based Research (V)
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Saturday
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Unexamined and Unwritten Dance Histories (IP)
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Sunday
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Living Texts: Reading Historical Dance Today (V) *Session sponsored by the Early Dance Working Group
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Ways of Seeing and Doing Dance and/as History: Early Modern to Late Modern (IP)
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INSPIRED: Investigating Spirituality and Resilience in Contemporary Dance - HUB (V)
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Early Dance Panels and Papers at DSA 2021
(V) = virtual session (IP) = in-person session
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Tuesday
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Radical Religion I: Religious Dance as an Antiracist Praxis (V)
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Wednesday
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Radical Religion II: Historically Transformative Connections (V)
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Thursday, October 14
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Annual Meeting of the Early Dance Working Group (IP & V)
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Cultural Crossings in Late 18th- and 19th-century Mexican Dance Sources (V)
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Friday
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Individuals and Communities in Conversation: The Choreography of 'Call and Response' *Session sponsored by the Early Dance Working Group (IP & V)
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Dance History Teachers Discussion Group Panel (IP)
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Decolonizing Dance Pedagogy in Canada (IP & V)
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Saturday
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Scopic Regimes: Photography, Telescopes, and the Burlesque (IP)
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Non-Compliant Bodies: Can-Can, Chronic Illness, and Skolting (IP)
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Sunday
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Choreographies of Connection: Embodying Politics of the Past and Present (IP & V)
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Early Dance Panels at DSA 2020 -- annual conference cancelled
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Early Dance Panels and Papers at DSA 2019
Thursday
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Annual Meeting of the Early Dance Working Group
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Friday
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Un/common Un/grace: Grace and the Grotesque in Early and Modern European Dance
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Historical Specificities Across Time
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(Counter)publics and the Commons
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Saturday
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On Stage, At Court, and On the Road: Revisiting the Common Repertoire and Dance Conventions of Early Modern Europe
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The Archive: Common Ground from Past-to-Present and There-to-Here
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Travels of the Common French Contradance
Sunday
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Mobilizing (Un)Common Identity: Dance and Poetry
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Early Choreographic Commons: Race and the Longue Durée
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Conference schedule (pdf)
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Early Dance Panels at DSA 2018​
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Thursday
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Annual Meeting of the Early Dance Working Group
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Friday
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Conflict in Dance Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Works
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Saturday
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From Plato to the Early Modern Era: Dance, Peace, and Conflict
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Embodying Violence and Armed Conflict in Greco-Roman Antiquity
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Shakespeare, Dance, & Conflict
Sunday
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War & Peace in 17th Century Dance
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From Ancient Greek Literature into Dance
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Dance and Conflict in Early Modern Europe
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Updated July 9, 2025.