Dr Sarah McCleave
Tel: +44 28 9097
Office: Music Building
Address: School of Music and Sonic Arts, Music Building, Queen's University Belfast,
BT7 1NN
Canadian Sarah McCleave undertook her early studies at Dalhousie University and the University of Victoria. After completing her PhD at King's College, London in 1993 ("Dance in Handel's Italian Operas: The Collaboration with Marie Sallé"), she continued her work with Curtis Price there for a further two years, researching theatrical dance of late 17th-century England with a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral award. Her postdoctoral position at Cardiff, University of Wales (1995-98) saw her producing descriptive catalogues of the Mackworth and Aylward collections of music. She joined Queen's in September 1998.
A regular reviewer for Eighteenth-Century Music, ECCB, and Early Music Today, McCleave is also a New Grove contributor, and has been published in Dance Research, Music and Letters, The Consort and the Göttinger Handel-Beiträge. In 2006, she completed the twice-AHRC funded monograph, Handel and the Dance: his London Operas in Context. Book chapters on "Marie Sallé and the Development of the Ballet d'action," and "The Shaping of Galatea: Who Controlled the Career of Marie Sallé?" are due to come out in 2006-7, as is her chapter on dance for the Cambridge University Press Handbook on Early Opera. A founding member of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen's (CECS), McCleave continues to develop her interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary interests in theatrical dance (1680-1750) through published work which calls on disciplines as varied as source studies, reception history, musical analysis, and gender studies. She is currently involved in developing research resources for the Thomas Moore collection at Queen's. Future works will include an analytical study of 17th- and 18th-century dance music, and a monograph on the dancer Marie Sallé.
