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1 Andrea Sommer-Mathis is a member of the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her current projects concern Courtly Representation through Theatre and Festival as well as The Kärntnerthortheater in Vienna 1728–1748 [https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ikt/publications/publikationen-mitarbeiterinnen/publications-andrea-sommer-mathis/].
2 ‘Cadences’ is intended as an interdisciplinary series concerning the connection between dance and music in theoretical discourses as well as in social and theatrical practice in the Early Modern Age.
3 Friedrich von Schiller, Die Schaubühne als eine moralische Anstalt betrachtet, Vorgelesen bei einer öffentlichen Sitzung der kurfürstlichen deutschen Gesellschaft zu Mannheim im Jahr 1784. Published under the title ‘Was kann eine gute stehende Schaubühne eigentlich bewirken?’, in Rheinische Thalia, no 1 (1785).
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Gerrit Berenike Heiter
Gerrit Berenike Heiter
Gerrit Berenike Heiter is a Research Associate at the Department of Musicology and Dance Studies at the University of Salzburg for the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) research project, “Border-Dancing Across Time. The (Forgotten) Parisian Choreographer Nyota Inyoka, her Œuvre, and Questions of Choreographing Créolité”. Her thesis in theatre studies at the University of Vienna focuses on French ballet publications from 1573 to 1651 with a comparative study of ballet at the Courts of the Austrian Habsburgs.