Irene Brandenburg is a music and dance scholar and heads the Derra de Moroda Dance Archives at the University of Salzburg (https://ddmarchiv.eu/), where she coordinates the successive cataloguing and digitization of the collection and is involved in research and outreach projects. She researches, teaches and publishes on music and dance history topics from the 17th to 20th centuries, in particular on stage dance in theory and practice, on the relationship between ballet and opera and their interpreters, and deals with the topic of dance and archives.

Bruce Alan Brown, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Bruce Alan Brown (PhD 1986, University of California, Berkeley), Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), specializes in later eighteenth-century opera and ballet, in particular the music of Gluck and Mozart. His publications include Gluck and the French Theatre in Vienna (Oxford, 1991); critical editions (Kassel: Bärenreiter) of Gluck’s Le Diable à quatre (1992), L’Arbre enchanté (Versailles version, 2010; Viennese version. 2015), and Cythère assiegée (1759 version, in preparation); W. A. Mozart: Così fan tutte (Cambridge, 1995); The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage (ed., with Rebecca Harris-Warrick; Madison, WI, 2005); and numerous articles. From 2005 to 2007 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and he served as President of the Mozart Society of America from 2019 to 2023.He is a member of the editorial board of the Gluck-Gesamtausgabe (Mainz) and of the Akademie für Mozart-Forschung (Salzburg).

Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Rebecca Harris-Warrick is Professor Emerita of Music at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She has published widely on Baroque music and dance, particularly in France, with research excursions into nineteenth-century Italian opera. Much of her scholarly work has been informed by her interests in performance, which have been nourished by her own experiences as a Baroque flutist and as a student of Renaissance and Baroque dance; her latest book, Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Other books include The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Gennaro Magri and his World, edited with Bruce Alan Brown, and Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV: 'Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos', co-authored with Carol G. Marsh. She is a member of the editorial board of the critical edition of the Œuvres complètes de Jean-Baptiste Lully (Olms Verlag) and has worked on several of its volumes.

Markus Lehner, Herrsching, Germany

Markus Lehner has been teaching historical dance with a focus on the Renaissance since 1984. His work in the field of dance research led to the publication of the “Manual of Sixteenth-century Dance Steps in Italy” in 1997. In 2022, he organized the fifth international symposium for historical dance at Rothenfels Castle under the title “The Ball - Sociability, Power, Politics, 1600 - 1900”. He is a founding member and chairman of the association Dance & History e.V., which promotes research and knowledge transfer in the field of historical dance.

Alessandro Pontremoli, Università di Torino, Italy

Alessandro Pontremoli is full professor of Performing Arts at the University of Turin, where he coordinates the Performing Arts Curriculum of the Humanities PhD. He is the scientific consultant of SCT – Social and Community Centre of Turin and member of the Knowledge Community of CCW – Cultural Welfare Centre of Turin. He is a member of the scientific committee of the magazines «Comunicazioni Sociali», «Il Castello di Elsinore» and «Danza & Ricerca», and director of «Mimesis Journal». In 2015 he won the “Premio Nazionale di Teatro Luigi Pirandello” (non-fiction section) with the volume: Danza e Rinascimento. Danza, cultura e “buone maniere” nella società di corte del XV secolo (Macerata 2011). His research, in the historical and theoretical field, focuses primarily on the forms and aesthetics of dance, in particular from the 15th to the 18th centuries and in contemporary times, and secondly on social and community theatre. Among his monographs: La danza nelle corti di antico regime. Modelli culturali e processi di ricezione fra natura e arte (Bari 2012); Elementi di teatro educativo, sociale e di comunità (Turin 2015); La danza 2.0. Paesaggi coreografici del nuovo millennio (Rome and Bari 2018); L’arte del ballare. Danza, cultura e società a corte fra XV e XVII secolo (Bari 2021). He recently edited the critical edition of Giulio Mancini’s manuscript treatise, Del origin et nobiltà del ballo (Rome 2024).

Hanna Walsdorf, Universität Basel, Switzerland

Hanna Walsdorf received her PhD in 2009 from the Department of Music and Dance Studies at the University of Salzburg. 2009-2013 Postdoc at the University of Heidelberg; 2011 Awarded the NRW Dance Science Prize. 2014-2020 Head of the Emmy Noether Research Group “Ritual Design for the Ballet Stage” at the University of Leipzig. 2020-2021 Lectureships at the HMT Leipzig, the University of Salzburg and the University of Basel, since February 2022 Assistant Professor of Early Music History at the same university.