Markus Lehner, Herrsching, Deutschland:
Markus Lehner unterrichtet seit 1984 historischen Tanz mit dem Schwerpunkt Renaissance und englischer Country dance. Seine Tätigkeit im Bereich der Tanzforschung führte 1997 zur Veröffentlichung des „Manual of Sixteenth-century Dance Steps in Italy". Seit 2004 organisiert er mit großem Erfolg das Internationale Symposium für Historischen Tanz auf Burg Rothenfels, zuletzt 2012 mit dem Thema „all' ungaresca, al español - die Vielfalt der europäischen Tanzkultur von 1420 - 1820".
Alessandro Pontremoli teaches History of dance at the University of Turin, where he has been the scientific director of Master's Degree in Social and Community Theatre since 2004. He is member of Scientific Board of the journals«Il Castello di Elsinore» and «Danza & Ricerca» and he directs dance studies series "Tracce di tersicore" for UTET publisher in Turin. Since 2010 he has been member of the Dance Advisory Committee of the Ministry of "Beni e Attività Culturali" (MiBac). He studied Early Dance with Peggy Dixon in England and he has been directing the association "Il Leoncello-Scuola e gruppo di danza storica" of Legnano (Milano) since 1980. His historical and theoretical researches deal with aesthetic of dance, especially from 15th to 18th Century and with contemporary dance. Among his publications: La danza nelle corti di antico regime. Modelli culturali e processi di ricezione fra natura e arte, Bari, Edizioni di Pagina, 2012; La danza. Storia, teoria, estetica nel Novecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2015 (seventh edition).
Carol G. Marsh is Professor Emerita at the UNCG School of Music, where she taught music history and viola da gamba and was director of the Collegium Musicum. She has been on the faculty at a number of early music workshops in North America and Europe, teaching both viol, historical dance and Renaissance notation. An internationally recognized authority on Baroque dance and dance notation, she has published extensively in this field and has lectured and given dance workshops at numerous universities in the US and abroad.
Véronique Daniels graduated in Early Music from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. She studied folk dances and historical dances with teachers of the Atelier de la Danse Populaire de Paris, Andrea Francalanci and Barbara Sparti. Véronique pursued research which led her to address the problems of tempo relationships in the Italian balli of the fifteenth century and to write the articles "Domenico da Piacenza" and "Antonio Cornazzano" in the new MGG.
Claudia Celi specialized in Early Dance with Barbara Sparti, Francine Lancelot, Shirley Wynne, Angene Feves, Cecilia Grácio Moura. She teaches Dance History and Historical Dances at Accademia Nazionale di Danza (AND); she also teaches at Università di Roma "La Sapienza". Formerly a member of Barbara Sparti's Gruppo di Danza Rinascimentale di Roma and dance partner of Andrea Francalanci, she danced and choreographed for early dance companies in theatre, TV and movie productions. She co-directs the Associazione Il Teatro della Memoria. Editor for Chorégraphie and Cairon, she published research essays, in particular on Italian Ottocento ballet, and contributed entries to International Encyclopedia of Dance and Dictionnaire Larousse de la Danse. Formerly Deputy Director of AND and member of the Working Group of the Ministry for Education, University and Research for the drafting of new didactic charters of Higher Artistic Education Institutions, presently she is Coordinator of Dance History teachers in Choreutic High Schools.
