Conference Proceedings

Table of Conferences

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• 2024, Recovering Historical Dance: We don’t reproduce the past, we create it – £15.00
• 2022, Retrieving & Reconstructing the Past through Dance – £15.00
• 2018, Perception and Reception of Early Dance – £12.50
• 2016, Terpsichore and her Sisters: Dance Among her Sister Arts – £12
• 2014, Ballroom, Stage & Village Green: Contexts for Early Dance – £10
• 2012, Dance and Society – £10
• 2010, Dance and Heritage: Creation, Re-creation and Recreation – £10
• 2008, Dancing Master or Hop Merchant? The Role of the Dance Teacher through the Ages – £8
• 2006, Masks, Masques and Masquerades: A Living Tradition – £6
• 2004, The Great Divide? A Conference to Explore the Impact of the French Revolution on Dance, Costume and Culture – £6
• 2002, The Restoration of Charles II: Public Order, Theatre and Dance – £6
• 1999, Education and Early Dance – £6
• 1997, Belinda Quirey and Historical Dance – £6

NEW Recovering Historical Dance: “We don’t reproduce the past, we create it”

Proceedings of the EDC Biennial Conference in May 2024 at St Katharine’s, Frieth (eds. Sharon Butler & Barbara Segal, intro. Bill Tuck) (paperback, iv, 138)

ISBN 978-0-9513640-1-7

Bill Tuck	Introduction
Jennifer Thorp	Pursuing Mr Isaac
Barbara Segal	Dancing with Medusa: Ombreggiare & Fantasmata in 15th Century Italian Dance
Jeremy Barlow	Topical references in the satirical prints Grown Gentlemen Taught to Dance (1768) and Grown Ladies &c. Taught to Dance (c1768)
Paul Cooper	Invented Traditions, risks in modern ‘Regency Dancing’
Anne Daye	Dance in Nuptial Diplomacy: Shrovetide Masques 1560
Nobuko Yuasa	How the Music of Gaspard Le Roux inspires dance, both baroque and modern
Christine Bayle, with John Whitelaw	French ‘Belle danse’ according to Pierre Rameau
Ian Cutts	Lost dances: ‘French-dancing’ in England 1650 to 1700
Katherine Goodson Walker	But does it tell a story? Dancing Cupid and Psyche in French seventeenth-century court ballet
Pilar Montoya Chica	The Villano Dance: Sources for its Reconstruction
Bill Tuck	Cecil Sharp as Dance Historian
Evelyn Nallen	Recreating The Loves of Mars & Venus 2 March 1717 London – 2 March 2017 Cambridge
Nira Pullin	The Boston Two Step: A Workshop
Klaus Abromeit	‘Show me your feet, show me your shoes!’ A workshop based on the Balli di Sfessania of Jaques Callot
Tiziana Leucci	The Role of Archaeology and Art History in the Process of ‘Dance Re-Creation’ in Europe, North America, Russia and Asia
Hazel Dennison	Fa La Danza: Making Dances for the 15th century Italian Courts: A Workshop

Price – £15.00, P&P on application

Retrieving & Reconstructing the Past through Dance

Proceedings of the EDC Biennial Conference in May 2022 at St Katharine’s, Frieth (eds. Barbara Segal & Alena Shmakova, intro. Bill Tuck) (paperback, iv + 145 pp)

ISBN 978-0-9553532-8-4 

Bill Tuck	Introduction
Paul Cooper	Dances and Dancers, prestigious London balls c.1800-1820
Barbara Segal	Country Dance as Reification of the Pastoral Idyll
Hazel Dennison	Canario Siciliana or The Diplomatic Dancing Master
Matthew Spring	Dancing Opportunities on a Family Stay in Eighteenth-century Bath
Mareike Greb and Gerrit Berenike Heiter	Reconstructing ‘Thee Willet Goose’ & ‘La Berlionese’ from the Schönburg Contredanse Collection (second half of the 18th century): Examples of Country Dance Migrations
Christine Bayle with John Whitelaw	A Baroque Body, What the Hell is That?
Tiziana Leucci	Delsartism, Orientalism, Esotericism and Yoga: For a ‘Connected History’ of the Women in Early American Modern Dance (19th-20th centuries)
Uta Dorothea Sauer	The Method of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze and its consequences for Modern Dance Development
Klaus Abromeit	Balli di Sfessania: an inspiring document of Italian stage dance from the first half of the 17th century
Larraine Nicholas	On the Appeal of Authenticity: The Dance of the Seven veils in Early 20th century London
Bill Tuck	Curious Conjunctions: The interwoven lives of Cecil Sharp, Isadora Duncan and Ralph Vaughan Williams 1910-1930

Price – £15.00, P&P on application

Perception and Reception of Early Dance

Proceedings of the EDC Biennial Conference in May 2018 at St Katharine’s, Frieth (eds. Barbara Segal & Sharon Butler, intro. Bill Tuck, layout Michele Odell) (paperback, iii + 189 pp)

ISBN 978-0-9553532-9-1

Bill Tuck	Introduction
Gloria Giordano	Perception and Reception in the Reconstruction of the ballet “Martel d’Amore” from Lione Tolosa to Barbara Sparti.,
Charlotte Ewart	The Estampies: should we accept the current perception?
Hazel Dennison	Vercepe Observed, Vercepe Obscured, Vercepe Illuminated.
Paul Cooper	The Waltz in England c1790 – c1820.
Sharon Butler	Sport and Dance in 1599: Arcangelo Tucarro’s “Trois Dialogues de l’exercice de sauter, et voltiger en l’air”
Christine Bayle	The Marriage (or Divorce) of Music and Dance?
Edith Lalonger	The Ballet Figuré in Zoroastre.
Barbara Segal	Pantomime in early 18th century London – its Perception & Reception.
Uta Dorothea Sauer	The Social Relevance of Noble Dance.
Bill Tuck	From Rigaudon to Reggaeton: the perception and reception of  European dance cultures in the Caribbean.
Chica Pilar Montoya	The Minué during the reign of Felipe V.
Tiziana Leucci	The ‘Moresca’ dance in the Pietro della Valle’s travel accounts of South India (17th century).
Giles Bennett	Parallels to English Dancing? The Group Choreographies in “Thomas Morus”, Babenhausen 1688.
Robert Mullally	The Reception of Early Music and Early Dance.
Nira Pullin & Bill Wilson	The Scandalous Tango – Good or Evil?
	Additional Papers (Abstracts only)

Price – £12.50; P&P on application

Terpsichore and her Sisters

Proceedings of a conference held at St Katharine’s, Parmoor, Frieth, Buckinghamshire RG9 6NN on 8-10 April 2016. (paperback, iv + 208 pp)

ISBN 978-0-9553532-7-7 

Bill Tuck	Introduction
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	Aesthetic and Performative Functions of the Mask in French Court Ballet (1573-1681)
Gerrit Berenike Heiter	Considerations for the Use of Masks in Baroque Dance
Margaret McGowan	Dance’s debt to Artists in Early Modern France
Robert Mullally	Flemish Art and Burgundian Dance c. 1470 to c. 1500
Bill Tuck	Dance and the Muse of Comedy
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

Price – £12.00; P&P on application

Ballroom, Stage & Village Green: Contexts for Early Dance

(ed. & intro. Barbara Segal and William Tuck, 2015)

Proceedings of a conference held at Prior Park College, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath on 11–13 April 2014. (paperback, iv + 140 pp)

ISBN 978-0-9553532-6-0 

Bill Tuck & Barbara Segal	Introduction
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
Alexandra Kajdanska	Dance Customs at Weddings in Gdansk
Isabel Suri	“Arches and Arcades”, Workshop
Andrea Strassberger	The Dance Card Collection in the Vienna Museum, abstract only
Cornelis Vanistendael	Shaping Europe’s first dance craze, abstract only
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	“Alliance Quadrille”: A History Painting with Polka Mazurka Steps
Tiziana Leucci	“Le Triomphe de Bacchus dans les Indes” (1666) & Le Triomphe de l’Amour” (1681): Two French court ballets
Anne Daye	Seventeenth Century Dance Spaces: the infrastructure
Charlotte Ewart	Stones in our Shoes – Performing at Heritage Sites, abstract only
Christine Bayle	Reconstructing “La Gillotte” from the MS “Instruction pour dancer”
Hazel Dennison	Delizie e Danze: a tangible context for an intangible heritage. Workshop
Jadwiga Nowaczek	Reconstructing the Ball Scene in “The Sorrows of Young Werther” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Price – £10; P&P on application 

Dance & Society

(ed. Barbara Segal and William Tuck, 2012)

Proceedings of a conference held at Farnham Castle, Farnham, Surrey, 16-18 March, 2012 (paperback, iv + 140 pp)

ISBN 978-0-9553532-5-3 

Bill Tuck & Barbara Segal	Introduction
Maxine Horne	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, Abstract only
Clara Rico	The minuet in 18th century Spain: a change in cultural identity?
Hazel Dennison	Dancing the common man, lecture workshop, abstract only
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

Price – £10; P&P on application

Dance and Heritage: Creation, Re-creation and Recreation

(ed. Barbara Segal and William Tuck, 2010)

Proceedings of a conference held at All Saints Pastoral Centre, St Albans, 20-21 March 2010    (paperback, iv + 140 pp.)

ISBN 978-0-9553532-4-6 

Barbara Segal & Bill Tuck	Introduction
Klaus Abromeit	Interpreting the Dances of Gregorio Lambranzi
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
Francoise Carter	Edgar Allan Poe’s “Hop-Frog” and Le Bal des Sauvages
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 creation of 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 & William Wilson	Everybody’s Doin’ It – A Ragtime Workshop
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

Price – £10; P&P on application

Dancing Master or Hop Merchant? The role of the dance teacher through the ages