East and West
The world is dividing into East and West again...
Not the right moment to dance? But yes, dancing connects people.
Especially this year we have a focus on Eastern European dance culture in our pr...
Dance & History Online 2022
A bright spot in pandemic times: Our invitation to Dance & History Online 2022
Von "lustigen Täntz" und "wahrer Tantzkunst" Dance in Germany 1500 – 1900 29 – 30 January, 2022 on "Zoom
All det...
Mazurka is in!
In two weeks we will open the Mazurka season with Irène Feste in Hamburg. The specialist in early 19th century dance will show us the mazurka choreographies from Michel St. Léon's notebooks. St. Lé...
Supplementary Call for Contributions for 2022
Due to the Corona pandemic, the Historical Dance Symposium at Burg Rothenfels, originally planned for 2020, has been postponed to 2022. We plan to keep the same topic "The Ball" with the same speak...
Dance & History Online
We are happy to invite you to our first online event:
"Die neueste Art zur Tantzkunst"
Dance in Germany 1600 - 1900
6 - March on "Zoom"
Conference language: German!
The conference focuses on d...
Les corps en spectacle
This is the title of a new and extensive publication about German dance culture from the 16th to the 18th century by Marie-Thérèse Mourey, one of the best experts in this field. Its main focus lies...
Call for Applications 6 Online Lectures
An organisation from Munich has published a call for applications for an exciting online project:
Call for Applications: 6 Online Lectures on Practical Dance History of the 15th to 19th Cent...
Hot off the press: Pierre Dubreil
Hot off the press: Carola Finkel’s study of the life and works of Pierre Dubreil, Munich’s famous 18th-century court dancing master, has just been published as vol. 1 of the new series tanz|dokumen...
A "new" baroque choreography
German choreographies from the 18th century in Feuillet notation are very rare. It is all the more gratifying that Carola Finkel has discovered a previously unknown manuscript in the depths of the ...
European Drama and Performance Studies
A few weeks ago Classiques Garnier has published a new volume of European Drama and Performance Studies focussing on "The Stage and its Creative Processes (16th-21st century)".
There you can find ...