Emmanuelle Delattre-Destemberg

A researcher in modern history at the University of Valenciennes (UPHF), Emmanuelle Delattre-Destemberg is the author of a PhD entitled "Les enfants de Terpsichore: une histoire de l'École et des élèves de la danse de l'Académie de musique de Paris (1783-1913)". She is interested in the history of spectacular and theatrical dance practices in the nineteenth century. During her stay at the Maison Française d'Oxford, a recipient of a MESHS scholarship and supported by the LARSH (UPHF), she will study the movement of French dancers between France and England between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Drawing on a variety of sources, the aim is to measure the professional strategies and motivations for dancing on English stages, as well as the social imaginary that these body techniques carry, and of which iconographic sources have left a very fertile trace.

She is co-director of the ANR project EnDansant (2021-2025). The aim of this ANR project is to examine the construction of the profession of dance teacher and the conditions and places in which it was practised 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 the conflicts and moments of tension between teachers and the various authorities that govern them, the study seeks to identify this socio-professional category, to define the legal frameworks for their activity and the conditions under which they practised.https://endansant.hypotheses.org/projet-et-calendrier and co-leader of the 'Performing Arts' axis of the ICCARE, research acceleration programme, project supported by the CNRS: https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/pepr/iccare