Women’s Work: Making Dance in Europe before 1800

Contributors

C R A is a leading authority in the reconstruction and performance of baroque dance, a field that she has helped develop worldwide since her first United States concert in 1968. She is an independent researcher and writer best known for her biographies of prominent French dancers of the Ancien Régime . In 1993 she founded the Conservatory of Baroque Dance for children aged ten to eighteen, followed by two performing groups, Les petits and Les grands baladins du Roy. L M B is the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Humanities Professor at Franklin & Marshall College. She holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Temple University and is a Certified Movement Analyst (Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies). Her doctoral research was supported by a Fulbright/Hayes Grant for study in Spain, and she has held grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Brooks wrote performance reviews for Dance Magazine and edited Dance Research Journal (1994 through 1999). She has written three books and many scholarly articles on dance history subjects. In 2008 she assumes the co-editorship of Dance Chronicle, Studies in Dance and the Related Arts. A D lectures in dance history at Laban, the London dance conservatory . As chairman of the Dolmetsch Dance Society, she has contributed to the growth of research, teaching, publication, and participation in dance from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. Her investigation into the Stuart masque combines documentary research, practical reconstruction, and literary analysis , and is currently in preparation as a doctoral thesis on the professional dance within the antimasque. A F specializes in the reconstruction, teaching, and performance of Renaissance and Baroque dances. In 2000 her introduction to the 257 seventeenth-century manuscript “Instruction pour dancer” was published in Germany. She has also written articles for the International Encyclopedia of Dance and for Dance Chronicle. She oversaw production and wrote instruction books for the cassette recordings Homage to Amor and Dances for a Noble Gathering, compilations of dances from Fabritio Caroso’s works. M G researches and reconstructs the dance of the early eighteenth century. She has published widely and has danced in Europe and the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom. Her research specialty is dance on the London stage from 1660 to 1760, and in 2001 she was awarded a doctorate for her thesis on the English dancer-actress Hester Santlow. Her book on Santlow’s life and career has recently been accepted for publication. N L (Ph.D., University of Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne) is an independent researcher. She directed historians and wrote articles for the Dictionnaire de la musique en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (1992) and Dictionnaire de la danse (1999). She also contributed to the critical edition of Louis Cahusac’s Traité historique de la danse (2004). She is currently working on a book about the dance troupe of the Paris Opera from 1699 to 1733. S MC has been lecturer in the School of Music, Queen’s University, Belfast, since 1998. Her research focuses on dance and drama in London and Paris of the 1720s to 1740s. She has published work in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001), the Göttinger Händel Beiträge, Consort, and the Cambridge University Press Companion to Early Opera (forthcoming). She is currently working on a book based on her doctoral dissertation (King’s College , London, 1993) entitled Handel and the Dance: His London Operas in Context. J A. M is associate professor of dance at Temple University, where she was coordinator of doctoral studies in dance from 1997 to 2006. She directs Sprezzatura, a chamber dance ensemble that has performed, in London , Long Island, and Philadelphia, works ranging from eighteenth-century Baroque dance and twentieth-century modern dance classics to her own choreography . Her research has been published frequently in Dance Chronicle and Studies in Dance History monographs as well as presented nationally and internationally. She is a recent recipient of a Newberry Library Fellowship to pursue her research on American choreographer Ruth Page. In 2008 she assumes co-editorship of Dance Chronicle, Studies in Dance and the Related Arts. K S is presently working on a dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley, on dance practice and theory in late thirteenth-century France and French Flanders. She has lectured on medieval performance, dance 258 Contributors analysis, and...