Table of Conferences
- 2024, St Katharine’s, Parmoor, Frieth Recovering Historical Dance: “We don’t reproduce the past, we create it”
- 2022, St Katharine’s, Parmoor, Frieth Retrieving & Reconstructing the Past through Dance
- 2018, St Katharine’s, Parmoor, Frieth Perception and Reception of Early Dance
- 2016, St Katharine’s, Parmoor, Frieth Terpsichore and her Sisters: Dance Among her Sister Arts
- 2014, Bath Ballroom, Stage & Village Green: Contexts for Early Dance
- 2012, Farnham Castle Dance and Society
- 2010, St. Albans Dance and Heritage: Creation, Re-creation and Recreation
- 2008, London Dancing Master or Hop Merchant? The Role of the Dance Teacher through the Ages
- 2006, London Masks, Masques and Masquerades: A Living Tradition
- 2004, London The Great Divide? A Conference to Explore the Impact of the French Revolution on Dance, Costume and Culture
- 2002, London The Restoration of Charles II: Public Order, Theatre and Dance
- 1999, London Education and Early Dance
- 1997, London Belinda Quirey and Historical Dance
Recovering Historical Dance: “We don’t reproduce the past, we create it”
10 – 12 May 2024
St Katharine’s, Parmoor, Frieth, Buckinghamshire RG9 6NN
Further Information
| Jennifer Thorp | Pursuing Mr Isaac |
| Anne Daye | Dance in Nuptial Diplomacy: Shrovetide Masques 1560 |
| Paul Cooper | Invented Traditions: risks in modern ‘Regency Dancing’ |
| Jeremy Barlow | Topical references in the satirical prints ‘Grown Gentlemen Taught to Dance’ (1768) and ‘Grown Ladies &c. Taught to Dance’ (c.1768) |
| Bill Tuck | Cecil Sharp as Dance Historian |
| Barbara Segal | Dancing with Medusa: Ombreggiare & Fantasmata in 15th Century Italian Dance |
| Tiziana Leucci | The Role of Archeology and Art History in the Process of ‘Dance Re-Creation’ in India, Cambodia, Europe and North America |
| Tiziana Leucci | Between Europe, India, Java and America: Sharing and Migration of Dance Styles in Jean Cebron’s Choreographic and Pedagogical Systems |
| Nobuko Yuasa | How the music of Gaspard le Roux inspires dance, both baroque and modern |
| Evelyn Nallen | The Loves of Mars & Venus 1717 and the work of John Weaver |
| Klaus Abromeit | Show me your feet, show me your shoes |
| Pilar Montoya Chica | The Villano dance: sources for its reconstruction |
Retrieving & Reconstructing the Past through Dance
6 – 8 May 2022
St Katharine’s, Parmoor, Frieth, Buckinghamshire RG9 6NN
Further Information
| Paul Cooper | Dances and Dancers, prestigious London balls c.1800-1820 |
| Petra Dotlacilova | Retrieving Dance of the Past through Costume |
| Barbara Segal | Some Observations on the Concept of Country Dance |
| Hazel Dennison | Canario Siciliana or The Diplomatic Dancing Master |
| Matthew Spring | Dancing Opportunities on a Family Stay in Eighteenth-century Bath |
| Gerrit Berenike Heiter with Mareike Greb | Reconstructing a Second Half of the 18th Century Country Dance Repertoire in Connection with the Central German Provincial Court of the Schonburg-Waldenburg |
| Christine Bayle with John Whitelaw | A Baroque Body, What the Hell is That? |
| Tiziana Leucci | Between Europe, India, Java and America: Sharing and Migration of Dance Styles in Jean Cebron’s Choreographic and Pedagogical Systems |
| Anne Daye | Finding our Footing: a discussion of the evidence for a social dance step vernacular to these islands |
| Uta Dorothea Sauer | The Method of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze and its consequences for Modern Dance Development |
| Susan de Guardiola | Les Ronds Extraordinaires: Uncovering Opening Changesin the Late 18th Century French Contredanse |
| Klaus Abromeit | Copy Callot |
| Larraine Nicholas | On the Appeal of Authenticity: The Dance of the Seven veils in Early 20th century London |
| Alena Shmakova & Mats Mellin | Exploring Jacobite themes in Scottish country dance collections of the 18th century |
| Lisa Fusillo | Uncovering Hidden Histories in American Popular Social Dances 1900-1930s |
| Bill Tuck | Curious Conjunctions: The interwoven lives of Cecil Sharp, Isadora Duncan and Ralph Vaughan Williams 1910-1930 |
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Perception and Reception of Early Dance
18 – 20 May 2018
St Katharine’s, Parmoor, Frieth, Buckinghamshire RG9 6NN
Further Information
| Christine Bayle | The Marriage (or Divorce) of Music and Dance? |
| Giles Bennett | An English Subject – Parallels to English Dancing? The Group Choreographies in Thomas Morus, Babenhausen 1688 |
| Theresa Buckland | Dancing the Past for the Future: Early Dance as Cultural Heritage |
| Sharon Butler | Sport and Dance in 1599: Arcangelo Tucarro’s Trois Dialogues de l’exercice de sauter, et voltiger en l’air |
| Paul Cooper | The Waltz in England, c.1790-c.1820 |
| Hazel Dennison | Vercepe Observed. Vercepe Obscured. Vercepe Illuminated |
| Charlotte Ewart | The Estampies: Should we accept the current perception and can it be changed? |
| Laura Fusaroli Pedrielli, Gloria Giordano and Silvia Rambaldi | Perception and Reception in the Reconstruction of the Ballet Martel D’Amore: from Lione Tolosa to Barbara Sparti |
| Gerrit Berenike Heiter | Functions and Intentions of European Ballet Prints in the 17th Century: Multiple Purposes in Relation to Reception and Perception |
| Yelena Kilina | Embedded Values and Perception of European Early Dance in Russia and Kazakhstan |
| Edith Lalonger | The Ballet Figuré in Zoroastre, Act IV (Ballet Infernal) |
| Edith Lalonger | Rameau & the Senses |
| Tiziana Leucci | The ‘Moresca’ dance in Pietro della Valle’s travel accounts of South India (17th century) |
| Pilar Montoya Chica | The Minué during the reign of Felipe V |
| Robert Mullally | The Reception of Early Music and Early Dance |
| Nira Pullin & Bill Wilson | The Scandalous Tango – Good or Evil? |
| Uta Dorothea Sauer | The Social Relevance of Noble Dance |
| Barbara Segal | Pantomime in early 18th century London: its Perception & Reception |
| Bill Tuck | From Rigaudon to Reggaeton: the perception and reception of European dance cultures in the Caribbean |
| Hannelore Unfried | Modification – a new analytical approach to the understanding of la belle danse |
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Terpsichore & her Sisters: The Relationships between Dance and her Sister Arts
8 – 10 April 2016
St Katharine’s, Parmoor, Frieth, Buckinghamshire RG9 6NN
| Jane Turner & the Semaphoreselfies | Calling to the past whilst Waving to the Future with the Turning Worlds Dance Company. Talk & Performance |
| Hazel Dennison | The Banquet as Performance Art. Talk & Workshop |
| Petra Dotlacilova | Picturing Horror: Sorceresses, Furies and Demons on the French stage from 1650 to 1770 |
| Barbara Segal | Dance in Baroque Art: Some Pitfalls of Interpretation |
| Gerrit Berenike Heiter | The Mask in the French Court Ballet (1573 – 1681) Talk & Workshop |
| Margaret McGowan | Dance’s debt to Artists in Early Modern France |
| Robert Mullally | Flemish Art and Burgundian Dance c. 1470 to c. 1500 |
| Tiziana Leucci | Mrs Elford: stage dancer and teacher in London (1700-1730) |
| Bill Tuck | The Dances in Dioclesian: The Dorset Garden Theatre as performance space |
| Hannelore Unfried | Johann Raab’s Quadrille L’Alliance, danced in lines with Polka-Mazurka steps. Workshop |
| Tiziana Leucci | Dialoguing with Music, Poetry, Painting and Sculpture in Traditional Indian Dance Training under V S Muthuswami Pillai |
| Anne Daye | The Mystery of The Nyne Muses |
| Ann & Paul Kent | A Realisation of The Nine Muses Dance. Talk & Workshop |
| Paul Cooper | The Science of Country Dancing in the Early 19th Century |
| Kimiko Okamoto | Conflict and Harmony: Dance and Music in Early 18th Century France |
| Camilla Kandare | Queenship in Motion, Social Protocol in the Life of Queen Christina of Sweden |
| Carola Finkel | A Dancing Master for the Horses – Pierre Dubreil and the Equestrian Ballets at the Bavarian Court |
| Christine Bayle | Dance & Drama: “A la Suite de Marin Marais”. Talk & Video |
| Madli Teller & Ipshita Rajesh | Ways in which Travel Influences Dance Creation |
| Roula Lymniati | Making Movements and Dances from Illustrated Dancing Bodies on Vases of the Geometric Period & Ancient Texts. Talk & Workshop |
| Nira Pullin | The Charleston in Relation to the Music and the 1920’s. Talk & Workshop |
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Ballroom, Stage & Village Green: Contexts for Early Dance
11-13 April 2014
Prior Park College, Bath, Somerset
Further Information
| Matthew Spring | The Fleming Family’s Dance School at Bath 1750-1800 |
| Georgina Boyes | Dancing Spies: Nazi attempts to infiltrate the English folk revival |
| Barbara Segal | “Every Savage can Dance”: dance as a class identifier |
| Isabel Suri | “Arches and Arcades”,Workshop |
| Andrea Strassberger | The Dance Card Collection in the Vienna Museum |
| Cornelis Vanistendael | Napoleon’s Grande Armée: a driving force behind the distribution of dance repertoires in continental Europe (1803–1815) |
| Jennifer Thorp | Mrs Elford: stage dancer and teacher in London (1700-1730) |
| Bill Tuck | The Dances in Dioclesian: The Dorset Garden Theatre as performance space |
| Hannelore Unfried | Johann Raab’s Quadrille L’Alliance, danced in lines with Polka-Mazurka steps. Workshop |
| Tiziana Leucci | The Apotheosis of Louis XIV as Bacchus Winning India in the Court Ballet Le Triomphe de l’Amour”(1681): an example of politics at play, in a play within a play |
| Anne Daye | Seventeenth Century Dance Spaces: the infrastructure |
| Charlotte Ewart | Stones in our Shoes: the fight that Early Dancers today have to face when performing at heritage sites |
| Christine Bayle | A Few Steps, a New Dance, as You Like it. Workshop |
| Hazel Dennison | Delizie e Danze: a tangible context for an intangible heritage. Workshop |
| Jadwiga Nowaczek | Story-telling through Dance. Lecture & Performance |
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Dance and Society
16-18 March 2012
Farnham Castle, Surrey
| Maxine Horne and Alan Hartley-Smith | Early Dance in the ‘Big Society’ Era: making historical dance fit for the 21st century |
| Barbara Menard Pugliese | From Scotch Reel to Western Reel; a Scottish dance becomes American |
| Clara Rico | The minuet in 18th century Spain: a change in cultural identity? |
| Hazel Dennison | Dancing the Common Man, Lecture & Workshop |
| Jennifer Kiek | ‘Full of State and Ancientry’? Tracing the social connections of The Old Measures |
| Marianna Jasionowska | Dance in the life of the Polish Nobility from the 16th to the 18th Centuries |
| Diana Cruickshank | Social Equals – till the music stops |
| Anne Daye | Satyrs and bawds: representing the people in the Stuart masque, Lecture & workshop |
| Tiziana Leucci | Dance in Indian society: temple and courtly traditions, Lecture & Workshop |
| Jennifer Thorp | Murder, theft and wrongful arrest: dancers and crime in the long eighteenth century |
| Catherine Bowness | Forget the crisis and dance; reconstructing Master Treby’s years of dancing and pleasure 1802-1815 |
| Helena Kazárová | The Forbidden Kate and the Prague Student: Issues of Nation and Political Context in Social Dances under Maria Theresa Habsburg, Lecture & Workshop |
| Darren Royston | Out of this world: Did the Elizabethan court society really want to dance with the planets? |
| Madeleine Inglehearn | A brilliant appearance of genteel company– Dance and Society in eighteenth-century Yorkshire |
| Sharon Butler | Choreographies of Order and Chaos, Pastoral and Courtly, in Chaucer and Spenser |
| Bill Tuck | Participative theatre and the re-creation of early Stuart masque |
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Dance and Heritage: Creation, Re-creation and Recreation
20th March, 2010
All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney, St. Alban
| Klaus Abromeit | Little Punch meets Alexander the Great – Lecture/Demonstration |
| Jeremy Barlow | Picturing the Past: Later illustrations of the dance in the garden from Le roman de la rose (c1230). |
| Cathie Bowness | Past Performance: A review of intentions and outcomes, in three acts -Lecture/Demonstration |
| Georgina Boyes | Featureless flannels and vulgar fichus: Problems of dress in the English Folk Dance Revival |
| Michael Bukht | Bonnets and Bullshit: the effect of popular and participative culture on the interpretation, understanding and presentation of early dance. |
| Frances Campbell | Variety is the spice of life – variations on the double step – Lecture/Workshop |
| Francoise Carter | The idea of cosmic harmony in late 16th and early 17th-century court ballet |
| Grainne McArdle | Dancing Masters in 18th C. Dublin |
| Ingolf Collmar | Emotion of an Echo – Performance of Modern Baroque |
| Anne Daye | Early[modern] dance and the genesis of [Early] Modern dance |
| Moira Goff | Deadly Complaisance? Lecture/Demonstration |
| Tiziana Leucci | Théophile Gautier on Maria Taglioni’s creationof the Bayadère character and the Indian Temple Dancers performing in Paris in 1838 |
| Tiziana Leucci | From Dasi Attam to Bharata Natyam: re-definition and re-creation of a South Indian dance style in the first half of the 20th century -Performance |
| Barbara Kane | Looking at Isadora Duncan’s use of Ancient Greek Myth, Muses and Philosophy – Lecture/Demonstration/Workshop. |
| Jackie Marshall-Ward | Dance Alive! |
| Cecilia Nocilli | Recreation of Historical Dance: a Legacy of the Collective Imagination of the Screen |
| Kimiko Okamoto | Two Sisters’ Separate Paths: Early Dance and Early Music in the Age of Postmodernism |
| Nira Pullin & WilliamWilson |
Everybody’s Doin’ It – A Ragtime Workshop |
| Barbara Segal | John Weaver and John Rich: Re-creation versus Recreation in 18th century Pantomime |
| Bill Tuck | “Chivalric Humanism” and the role of the basse danse in the re-creation of a mythic past at the 15thC Burgundian Court |
| Tomasz Marcin Wrona | Court ballet into milky–bar–arts’ times: a Cultural Studies’ view of dance reconstruction |
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Dancing Master or Hop Merchant? The Role of the Dance Teacher through the Ages
23rd February, 2008
St. Bride Institute, London
| Françoise Carter | Changing attitudes to dance through the ages |
| William Tuck | Dancing masters in 15th C. Burgundy |
| Anne Daye | Dance and education in the 17th C. – a report on work in progress |
| Sydney Anglo | Fencing Masters, Dancing Masters, and Drill Masters. Experiments in the Notation of Movement |
| Madeleine Inglehearn | Dancing Masters: Professionals or Businessmen? |
| Jennifer Thorp | Scholars, apprentices and dance training, 1700-1750 |
| Moira Goff | The Adroit and Elegant Monsieur Nivelon |
| Grainne McArdle | Dancing Masters in 18th C. Dublin |
| Sheila Dickie | Dance teaching in London from the 1890s – 1920s |
| Jeremy Barlow | J’ay deffault de la dance. The place of Arbeau’s Orchésographie in histories of western social dance |
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Masks, Masques and Masquerades: A Living Tradition
25th February, 2006
St. Bride Institute, London
| Yana Zarifi | Greek satyr dances, ancient and modem |
| Karl Toepfer | Masks in the ancient Roman pantomime |
| Daniel Tércio | Moreschi dances in the history of Portugal |
| Anne Daye | Masquing vizards |
| Barbara Sparti | The mask in the dance etchings of G. M. Metelli (1634-1718) |
| Barbara Segal | Masquerade balls in 18th-century England |
| Margaret Coldiron | Masked performance in Bali and Japan |
| Frances Tucker | Methods for making masks |
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The Great Divide? A Conference to Explore the Impact of the French Revolution on Dance, Costume and Culture
21st February, 2004
St. Bride Institute, London
| Clarissa Campbell Orr | The French Revolution as a cultural event |
| Sarah Nixon Gasyna | Looking like Death: dress and allegory at the Balsà Victime |
| Ellis Rogers | Changes in the ballroom repertoire initiated by the French Revolution |
| Elspeth Reed | Dancing with Jane Austen |
| Frances Tucker | Styles of dress in France and England from the French Revolution to the Regency |
There was also a demonstration by the Jane Austen Dancers.
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The Restoration of Charles II: Public Order, Theatre and Dance
23rd February 2002
Bankside House, London
| Roy Sherwood | Cromwell’s Merry England |
| John Miller | Back to normal? Government and society in Restoration Norwich |
| Anne Daye | Theatre dance in the private and public domains of Stuart and Commonwealth London, 1625-85 |
| Jeremy Barlow | Mock musickand survival of antimasque traditions in the Restoration theatre |
| Moira Goff | Shadwell, Saint-André and the curious dancingin Psyche |
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Education and Early Dance
27th February 1999
Royal Society of Arts, London
| John Harland | Effects and effectiveness of the teaching of Dance in schools |
| Mary Collins | The Art that All Other Arts Do Approve |
| Judy Smith | Dance teaching packs: guidelines for producers |
| Anne Bloomfield | The dancing children of Clifton Hall |
| June McKay | Blind Dance |
| Nicola Gaines | Early Dance in the preliminary training of children in Classical ballet |
| Diana Scrivener | Setting the stage for Early Dance |
| Catherine Bowness | From goals and scrums to mediaeval drums: conversion in a non-dancing society |
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Belinda Quirey and Historical Dance
5th April 1997
Birkbeck College, London
| Phrosso Pfister | Belinda Quirey, MBE: glorious eccentric |
| Anne Daye | Historical Dance in Higher Education |
| Velma Pursehouse | The Belinda Quirey Memorial Fund |
| Ann Hutchinson | Belinda Quirey: an appreciation |
| Diana Cruickshank | “We’ve got a carriage!” |
| Peggy Dixon | Historical Dance – past, present and future |
| Brian Trowell | Some memories of Belinda Quirey |
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