Historical Dance Symposium
Burg Rothenfels am Main
Accommodation
The rooms in the castle:
The accommodation consists of to-the-purpose, com-fortable, furnished rooms. The single, double or multi-bed rooms have their own washing facilities; several showers are available on each floor.
For students and trainees, multi-bed accommodation in the youth hostel is available.
Please note:
• Only a limited number of single rooms are available.
Food and drink
For its meals the castle prefers to use regional and seasonal produce. At midday there is a three-course set meal. Breakfast includes the additional offer of fruit and mueslis.
You can of course select vegetarian and vegan meals when you register. We are also very happy to take your allergies into account: please inform us in advance of your individual sensitivities so that we can prepare.
4th Historical Dance Symposium
Burg Rothenfels am Main
25 - 29 May 2016
Frequently asked questions
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Ich interessiere mich für die Tagung, kann aber nicht oder nur wenig tanzen. Macht es Sinn zu kommen? Muss ich bei den Workshops mitmachen?
Auf dieser Tagung wird dem praktischen Tanz viel Gewicht beigemessen. Insofern können Sie nicht erwarten, bei allen Workshops gut mitmachen zu können. Bei den Tanzabenden wird bewußt auch einfaches Tanzmaterial gezeigt um auch weniger Geübten Spaß am gemeinschaftlichen Tanzen zu geben. Die meisten Tänze des Balls werden auf den Tanzabenden vorher geübt, so dass auch Einsteiger im Bereich des Historischen Tanzes, je nach allgemeiner Tanzerfahrung, auf ihre Kosten kommen können. Tanzanfänger ohne jede allgemeine Tanzerfahrung werden vermutlich von den praktischen Teilen überfordert werden. Dies muß Sie nicht daran hindern zu kommen und Vorträge und sonstiges Programm als Zuschauer zu genießen. Natürlich steht Ihnen die Teilnahme an den Workshops oder Tanzabenden frei.
The Historical Dance Symposium
In 2004, the 1st Rothenfels Dance Symposium was initiated by Markus Lehner and Uwe Schlottermüller. The inspiration for the Symposium came from the Arbeau Conference of 1988 in Burg Rothenfels and the international conference "Terpsichore 1450 - 1900" in Ghent. Burg Rothenfels am Main, for decades now one of the centres of historical dance in southern Germany, has proved to be an ideal conference location.
What was originally conceived as an event for a German public broadened out into a congress with an international flair, with a stream of dancers and scholars coming from all over Europe and beyond.
One central reason for the success of the conference is its special concept: under the motto "research dance - dance research", the central aim is to bring together dancers and scholars and thus enable an intensive exchange between current research and lived dance practice.
A conference for:
- dancers, whether amateur or professional. It offers you
- numerous workshops in which to learn and discuss new dance interpretations or new styles
- intensive contact and dialogue with leading dance experts from the whole of Europe
- lectures with the most up-to-date research findings
- artistic exchanges and inspiration via a variety of compact performances
- dance evenings and a grand ball with live music for pleasure and shared social contacts
- dance researchers, whether full-time or part-time. The symposium offers you
- an outstanding platform for presenting your research findings to an international specialist audience with corresponding publication
- intensive discussion with other researchers
- a unique opportunity to examine current dance practice
- scholars in musicology, art and culture etc. The conference offers
- the opportunity to present your research work to an international public
- the chance to establish personal contacts with leading dance researchers
- the possibility to gain familiarity with dance of the various epochs live
Sharing life as a large group in the intimate atmosphere of Rothenfels Castle, dancing together and discussing, making new, personal contacts around the globe – all this cannot be replaced by a YouTube video or a facebook network: you simply have to experience it live!
2022 the symposium is organised for the first time by DANCE & HISTORY e.V. (chair: Markus Lehner) in cooperation with Burg Rothenfels.
