Emmanuelle Delattre-Destemberg at the Maison Française d'Oxford
Emmanuelle Delattre-Destemberg is currently on a research stay at the Maison Française in Oxford, thanks to a MESHS/Hauts-de-France scholarship and supported by LARSH.
Currently on a research stay at the Maison Française in Oxford, thanks to a MESHS/Hauts-de-France grant and supported by LARSH, she will study the circulation of French dancers between France and England between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. Drawing on a variety of sources, the aim will be to measure professional strategies and motivations for dancing on English stages, as well as the social imaginary that these body techniques convey, and for which iconographic sources have left a very fertile trace.
She is coordinator of the ANR EnDansant project (2021-2025).
The aim of this ANR project is to question the construction of the profession of dance teacher as well as the conditions and places of its practice between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries in France.
Based on a variety of sources (manuscript, iconographic, printed, oral), both private and public, and on conflicts and moments of tension between teachers and the various authorities governing them, the study sets out to identify this socio-professional category, define the legal frameworks of their activity and the conditions of their practice.
https://endansant.hypotheses.org/projet-et-calendrier and co-director of the "Performing Arts" axis of ICCARE, a research acceleration program, a project supported by the CNRS: https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/pepr/iccare