Anniversary Year
Anniversary year 2017
300 years after the publication of Gottfried Taubert's "Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister", the most important treatise on dance in German speaking countries, two outstanding conferences are going to celebrate this event:
Paris, 5 - 8 September 2017:
La danse francaise en Allemagne et son enseignement au début du XIIIe siècle
Autour du "Parfait Maitre à danser (Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister) de Gottfried Taubert (Leipzig 1717)
→ Download Invitation and Call for Papers for the conference in Paris
Leipzig, 20 - 23 September 2017:
International Symposium:
Gottfried Taubert's "Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister" (Leipzig 1717)
Contexts - Readings - Practices
hosted by the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Universität Leipzig at the Musikinstrumentenmuseum der Universität Leipzig
→ Download Invitation and Call for Papers for the conference in Leipzig
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Till next time in four years!
An extremely intensive week lies behind us. Truly heart-felt thanks go to all contributors and participants, who once again enabled this conference to become a wonderful experience".
For your diary:
Our 5th Symposium for Historical Dance: 10-14 June, 2020
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Our updated Programme
In a short while our Historical Dance Symposium is going to start for the fourth time since 2004. Due to some changes in our list of speakers, we have adapted our programme. Here you can find the updated list of the various contributions.
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Balli and Banchetti
Come and follow Alan Jones into the kitchens of the Este court in 16th-century Ferrara, where famous cooks not only noted delicous meals and extravagant "collazioni" but provided valuable information about the practical organisation of balls and danced interludes. Buon appetito!
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Registration now possible!
Registration is now possible!
Enjoy Europe's finest meeting on Historical dance in May 2016. If you don't come this time, you'll have to wait another four years...
Have a look at the conference topic, the programme, the contributors, the location and get registered.
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