With a KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Debra H Sowell and Madison U Sowell
Illustrating Mobility and Documenting Connections in 19th-century Ballet:

Examples from the Sowell Collection

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This conference will explore how dance works, dance practices, and dancers travelled, exerted or absorbed influence, and made an impact. Proposals on social dance, regional or national dances, and theatrical dance are of equal interest.

 

Suggested sub-themes include:

 

• Style and Identity: do borders matter?

• Whose works travelled well?

• The relative importance of the local and the transnational to social dance practice

• What dances or dance practices came to Europe from elsewhere?

• European influence abroad: persons, practices, and repertory

• Dance as a regional or national idea of self

 

It is intended that this online event will include THREE CONCERT SLOTS, one on
each day of the conference. One of these concerts will be dedicated to the memory
of former EADH President Madeleine Inglehearn (d. 24 January 2025), and so
proposals for performances of her editions or arrangements are encouraged, or
alternatively, performances that in some other manner fit the conference theme. And
so, contributions can take three forms:

 

1. Proposals (250-350 words suggested) for individual papers of no more than 20 minutes’ duration. These should give a clear indication of your topic and how it fits into the conference theme.

2. Proposals for a session of connected papers, each no more than 20 minutes in length. These should give a clear indication of your personal topic, and how it and your session theme fit into the wider conference theme

3. Proposals for a filmed/videoed performance contribution to one of the concerts of no more than 15 minutes’ duration (ideally). These should take the form of a short programme note (around  500 words?) where you introduce the work and the performance, also indicating how it fits into the conference theme. You must include the duration of the performance in the programme note.

 

To help with the smooth running of the conference, delegates whose papers are accepted will be expected to submit a video of their paper presentation by Friday 14 November; PowerPoint has a very intuitive self-recording option. Where this is not practical, we may support a few presenters who will give live online presentations, but you need to request this support in your paper proposal. Question periods will be conducted live (online), at the end of a session or group of papers. Delegates contributing a performance video must submit these by Friday 7 November, preferably in MP4 format (please liaise with us for further information).

 

Anyone who is a member of EADH by 1 September 2025 will get a 75% discount on the conference fee. £10 members; £40 non-members.

 

A conference programme will include the proposals and programme notes of the accepted presentations.

 

Deadline for proposals: 1st June 2025. Programme to be announced by 21 June 2025.

 

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