Calls for Papers and Proposals
- Rolling submissions — Proposals and submissions invited for essays, overviews, and review articles for this site; email dancingshakespeare@gmail.com for details
Archived News and Calls for Papers
News and Events
2026
- November 27, 2026 — Submissions due for the Oxford Dance Symposium in Oxford, UK (April 20-21, 2027)
- December 4, 2026 — Submissions due for the Dance Studies Association Conference in Mexico City (June 22-25, 2027)
- December 4, 2026 — Proposals due for Seminar 16: Dance(d) Forms: Shakespeare and Dance at ESRA in Bangor, Wales (July 27-30, 2027)
2027
- January 14-20, 2027 — International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance in Santiago, Chile
- January 15, 2027 — Submissions due for the Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music in Mafra, Portugal (July 21-25, 2027)
- March 11-13, 2027 — Renaissance Society of America conference in Philadelphia
- March 18-21, 2027 — Biennial American Handel Society conference in Princeton, NJ
- March 31-April 3, 2027 — Shakespeare Association of America conference in Atlanta, Georgia
- April 1-3, 2027 — American Society for 18th-Century Studies conference in Portland, OR
- April 20-21, 2027 — Oxford Dance Symposium in Oxford, UK
- April 23-24, 2027 — Bach and Dance symposium in Amherst, Massachusetts (symposium website)
- May 13-15, 2027 — International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan
- June 10-13, 2027 — Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (“Big Berks”) in Minneapolis
- June 22-25, 2027 — Dance Studies Association Conference in Mexico City
- July 5-8, 2027 — International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK
- July 6-9, 2027 — Stuart Drama Conference in Liverpool, UK
- July 21-25, 2027 — Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music in Mafra, Portugal
- July 27-30, 2027 — European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA) in Bangor, Wales
Featured Publications
Featured Essays and Commentaries
“I’ll use that tongue I have”: Paulina as Conscience in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale
by Grayson Chong (2026)
Photo by Grayson Chong
Romeo and Juliet — A Tale of Two Artists
by Yvonne Beumkes (2026)
Dutch National Ballet, 1967
Whose Romeo is it anyway?
by Leigh Witchel (2025)
Photo by Christopher Duggan
Negotiating Text and Movement: Some Challenges in Staging Dance in Shakespeare’s Plays
by Nona Monahin (2024)
Illustrations drawing on Arbeau and Caroso
Featured Bibliographies
Featured Reference Lists
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