Reading Dance

Uta Dorothea Sauer, Technische Universität Dresden

'"Dancing Words"? Mimetic Dance and its Text-interpretive Function'

Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar

'1831! - Annus Mirabilis: The Making of Modern Ballet'

Dominique Bourassa, Yale University

‘Terpsichore in the Spotlight of the Lumières: Dance in the Classification of Knowledge During the Age of Reason’

Olive Baldwin & Thelma Wilson, Essex

'Reading the Accounts: The Day-to-Day Life of the Lincoln's Inn Fields Dancers in 1726-7'

Dominique Bourassa, Yale University Library

'Jean-Étienne Despréaux, Bibliophile'

Tamara Caulkins, Oregon State University

‘The Science of Diagramming Dances and Military Drills in Enlightenment France'

Michael Burden, New College, Oxford

‘Spies, Lies, and Dancing at London's Opera House in the 1740s; New Clues to the Biography of M. Froment - or Mr Fremont - Mr Frument?'

Jed Wentz, University of Leiden

'Actors, Dancers, Attitudes: In Search of Common Ground'

Barbara Segal, London

‘"'Tis not enough that ev'ry Stander-by, No glaring Errors in your Steps can 'spy:" From 'Reading the Page' to 'Reading the Dance''

Katarzyna Koźma, University of Wroclaw

‘Reading is Imagining: Dance Instructions for Sir Roger de Coverley and Perception of Space, Self, and Movement'

Natalie D. Kershaw, NDK Music Services

‘The Musician and the Dance: The Musical Interpretation of the Dance Using Playford's The Dancing Master'

Iris Julia Bührle, New College, Oxford

‘Foreign Flowers on British Soil: The ballet d'action in England'

Keiko Kawano, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3

‘Pantomime in Diderot's Drama'

Hanna Walsdorf, University of Leipzig

'Reading Taubert: References to his Published Writings on Dance, 1728-2019'

Annamaria Corea, Sapienza University of Rome

‘Reading History in Italian Ballet Scenarios: The Case of Louis Henry'

Gerrit Berenike Heiter, University of Leipzig

‘French Court Ballet Festival Reports; Or, How to Kindle the Imagination of the Reader'

Michael Lee, Trinity College, Dublin

‘Adapting Lully for the London Stage: Reading a Chaconne of 1698'

Tilden Russell, Southern Connecticut State University

‘"It's an S, It's a Z, It's... an L!": The Extra-ordinary Menuet ordinaire'

Linda Tomko, University of California, Riverside

‘Meanings Made with Dancing in Lat Motte and Campra's L'Europe galante: What can Reading Dancing, and an Affect Model, offer to analysis?'