Ingrid Brainard

Ingrid Brainard (November 10 1925 – February 18 2000) was a dance historian, musicologist, and scholar who contributed significantly to the development of the fields of dance history in general, and early dance history in specific. She had a dance troupe, the Cambridge Court Dancers, and taught workshops on early dance. She was a founding member of the Society of Dance History Scholars. Her entries on early dance in the "International Encyclopedia of Dance" remain one of the best introductions to the subject available.

Works

Books

* "Three Court Dances of the Early Renaissance". 1977. Co-authored with Ray Cook.

* "The Art of Courtly Dancing in the Early Renaissance". Privately printed, 1989.

Articles, Papers, and Chapters

* "Bassedance, Bassedanza, and Ballo in the Fifteenth Century." "Dance History Research": 64.

* "The Role of the Dancing Master in Fifteenth Century Courtly Society." "Fifteenth Century Studies" 2 (1979): 21.

* "Modes, Manners, Movement: The Interaction of Dance and Dress From the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance." In "Proceedings of the Sixth annual conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars", 17- 36. Milwaukee, WI: Dance History Scholars, 1983.

* "Court Dances of the 15th Century." In "Proceedings of the Sixth annual conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars", 177. Milwaukee, WI: Dance History Scholars, 1983.

* "The Art of Courtly Dancing in Transition: Nurnberg, Germ. Nat. Mus. MS. 8842, a Hitherto Unknown German Source." In "Crossroads of Medieval Civilization: The City of Regensburg and Its Intellectual Milieu", eds. Edelgard E. Dubruck and Karl Heinz Goller. Michigan : Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1984.

* "Mesura Et Arte Del Danzare: The Guglielmo Ebreo Conference At Pesaro." "Dance Chronicle" 11, no. 1 (1988): 116-121.

Reviews

* "Translating Cornazano." "Dance Chronicle" 7, no. 1 (1984): 107-114.

References

* "Brainard, Ingrid G." in the Annotated Bibliography of Renaissance Dance [http://www.rendance.org/rbib/b.html#Brainard]
* "In Memorian: Ingrid Brainard", "Dance Research Journal" 32/2 (Winter 2000/1), p. 158.

External links

* [http://www.nypl.org/research/manuscripts/dance/danbrain.xml The New York Public Library - Ingrid Brainard Papers, 1890-2000]
* Annotated Bibliography of Renaissance Dance at [http://www.rendance.org/rbib/ www.rendance.org]