Professor Valarie Williams and Lecturer Ambre Emory-Maier co-authored a book chapter titled “Sociability and Hidden Connections: The Ballet Stage and Ballroom in the Long Eighteenth Century” for the volume Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century. Their collaboration began in 2022 as part of an international group of scholars who convened to explore questions surrounding sociability and dance during the Long Eighteenth Century. Many contributors to this volume are also members of DIGIT.EN.S, The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century. 

Description of the book:

This collection challenges the dominant understandings of 18th-century sociability by placing dance, and the training and movement of the body, at its core. Rather than thinking of dance and music as peripheral ornaments to the complex business of Enlightenment society, it highlights them as important vehicles for the development and dissemination of the ideas and practices that shaped people’s social, emotional and intellectual worlds. Exploring the relationship between dance and sociability, and the development of both through the long 18th century, chapters in this collection span different practices in England, Scotland, colonial America, the West Indies, Germany, the Low Countries and Norway. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, they argue that dance, which was entangled with concerns about touch, dress and bodies, was integral to the ways in which ‘enlightened sociability’ was understood, performed and accepted

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