Dr. Petra Zeller Dotlačilová
Assistentin / PostDoc (Professur Walsdorf)
Büro
Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar
Petersgraben 27
4051
Basel
Schweiz
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Petra Dotlačilová holds a PhD in Dance Studies from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (2016), and a PhD in Theatre Studies from Stockholm University (2020). In her research, she specialises in European dance history and theatrical costume from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
She participated in the research projects ‘Performing Premodernity’ at Stockholm University (2014-2019) and ‘Ritual Design for the Ballet Stage (1650–1760)’ at Leipzig University (2015–2017). Together with prof. Hanna Walsdorf she edited Dance Body Costume (2019). In 2021, she was awarded an international postdoc scholarship from the Swedish Research Council to conduct the three-year research project ‘The Fabrication of Performance: Processes and Politics of Costume-Making in the 18th Century’ at the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. She collaborated on the Swedish Royal Armoury’s exhibition Teaterkungen (2023).
In addition to her research and teaching activities, she is currently the editor of Nordic Theatre Studies Journal and of Dance Context Journal.