Announcements
Calls for Papers and Proposals
- 1 August 2020 — Contributions sought for essays and glossary entries for this website
News and Events
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Coronavirus Cancellations and Postponements
- April 2-4, 2020 — Renaissance Association of America conference in Philadelphia
- April 15-18, 2020 — Shakespeare Association of America conference in Denver, Colorado
- April 18, 2020 and August 2020 — The Historical Dance Society’s ““An Elizabethan Revel” and the annual Summer School
- April 24-26, 2020 — The German Shakespeare Association’s “Shakespeare and Dance” conference in Bochum, Germany
- May 13, 2020 — “Shakespeare and Dance: An Afternoon Symposium” at the University of California at Irvine, speakers include Brandon Shaw and Lar Lubovitch
- June 10-14, 2020 — The Historical Dance Symposium in Rothenfels, Germany
- October 15-18, 2020 — Dance Studies Association conference in Vancouver, Canada — rescheduled for October 13-16, 2022
Still Scheduled
- July 18-24, 2021 — World Shakespeare Congress in Singapore — including Global Shakespeare and Dance (Seminar) and From Text to Movement and Back Again: Staging Dance in Shakespeare’s Plays (Workshop)
Featured Essays and Abstracts
- “Shakespeare and Physical Theatre” by Linda McJannet (2019)
- All abstracts available in one place for the Shakespeare and Dance special issue of Borrowers and Lenders (2017, vol. 10, no. 2) edited by Elizabeth Klett
Featured Publications
- Get your copy of Choreographing Shakespeare: Dance Adaptations of the Plays and Poems by Project Associate Elizabeth Klett
- Check out the Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance edited by Project Associates Lynsey McCulloch and Brandon Shaw. It contains essays by our three Co-Directors and by many other of our Associates and dance studies colleagues. This beautifully illustrated collection is a major contribution to our growing field.
Featured Bibliography
Featured Reference List
Featured Glossary Entry
Featured Video
Featured Links
- Tariro Mzezewa, “What if Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Told Their Love Story? What if It Were a Ballet?” The New York Times (Feb. 5, 2019)
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