Sebastian Cody explores the challenges of ballet historiography, emphasising the need for rigorous scholarship amidst widespread inaccuracies
By Lynn Matluck Brooks Ballet in early America? Didn’t we have to wait for the Russians to show up in the 1910s with the Ballets Russes, and for those who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s and ’30s?…
Creativity, Skill, Integrity, Intelligence and Community
by Richard Ralph In March this year, Dance Research lost two of its core members from its editorial team – Margaret McGowan and Clement Crisp, who had each been with the journal since its inception forty years ago. I have…
Erin Sullivan and Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild are guest editors of a special issue of Cultural History about ‘Emotion, History and the Arts’, published October 2018. Their introduction draws on a wide range of emotionally charged art works from different times and places—including…
Looking Back at the Russian Revolution 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which occurred in March and November (Gregorian calendar) in 1917. The pair of revolutions saw the disassembly of the Tsarist autocracy in favour of the…
![‘Spanish Entree Performed by Mr Desnoyer’, Anthony L’Abbe, A New Collection of Dances [London, c.1725], plate 74, appearing in MONSIEUR DESNOYER, PART 1: 1721–1733, DOI: drs.2013.005969](https://euppublishingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/spanish-dance.jpg)
Below is a beautiful illustration of ‘Spanish Entree Performed by Mr Desnoyer and choreographed by Anthony L’Abbe’. Full of jumps, turns and entrechats, a virtuoso vocabulary runs throughout the solo. Appearing in the article, “The Celebrated Monsieur Desnoyer, Part 1:…
“Dancers are experts in mental processes such as memory, timing and motor cognition, and the study of dance can provide insight into these basic processes…. At the same time, several changes in psychology and neuroscience, make dance a more attractive…