Arthur & Katherine Shadek Professor of Humanities and Dance, Emerita
Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania
Research expertise
Dance history; movement analysis; dance education.
Contributions
Lieux
The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849)
The upper class of Philadelphia—a political, economic, and cultural center in eighteenth-century British North America—followed English patterns of sociability in order to distinguish themselves in colonial society and to mix in British circles.