20th Annual Oxford Dance Symposium
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The Timetable at a glance
| Tuesday 17th | |
| 10:00 | Registration, Coffee, Conduit Room |
| I: Theories - McGregor-Matthews Library, Chair: Michael Burden | |
| 10:30 |
Arianna Fabbricatore, Nantes University (ANR CIRESFI) - Paris-Sorbonne University ‘When Bodies Tell a Story: A Theoretical Study on Dance Dramaturgy’ |
| 11:00 |
Keiko Kawano, Osaka University ‘Ménestrier’s Theory of the Dance as Drama: Origin of the Ballet d’Action’ |
| 11:30 |
Dominique Bourassa, Yale University ‘Terpsichore in the Spotlight of the Lumières: Dance in the Classification of Knowledge During the Age of Reason’ |
| II: Keynote Paper, Chair: Jennifer Thorp | |
| 12:00 |
Edith Lalonger, Paris ‘Flowers and Weapons: Ballets Figurés in the Operas of Jean-Philippe Rameau’ |
| 13:00 | Lunch, The Hall |
| III: Telling stories - McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Iris Julia Bührle | |
| 14:00 |
Catherine Dulin, University of Roehampton ‘Lustspiele, German Comedies in Vienna: A Path to the Early Waltz’ |
| 14:30 |
Hanna Walsdorf, University of Leipzig ‘Moving Orfeo, 1607–1762: Or, How to Do Things with Dance’ |
| 15:00 |
Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex ‘Dancing the Hornpipe in The Beggar’s Opera‘ |
| 15:30 |
Alexandra Grundler, University of California, Santa Cruz ‘The Sylph and The Wilis: Romantic Ballet as Mythic Drama’ |
| 16:00 | Tea, Conduit Room |
| IV: Ballet d'Action - Lecture Room 6, Chair: Michael Burden | |
| 16:30 |
Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar ‘All the World’s A Stage: Pursuing Iconography of the Ballet D’Action by Any Other Means’ |
| 17:00 |
Petra Dotlacilova, Stockholm University ‘Drama at the First Sight: Characterisation of the Role via Costume in Noverre’s Ballets’ |
| V: Realisations, Lecture Room 6, Chair: Jennifer Thorp | |
| 17:30 |
Rachel Brown, Royal ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ of Music, & Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music and Royal ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ of Music ‘From Page to Stage and Nuance in 18th-Century Dance’ |
| 18:15 |
Ricardo Barros, Royal Academy of Music ‘Apollon: Disheartened Hero or Afflicted God?’ |
| 19:00 | Reception, Founder's Library |
| 19:30 | Dinner, Founder's Library |
| Wednesday 18th | |
| VI: Dancing in England, McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Joanna Jarvis | |
| 09:00 |
Iris Julia Bührle, New College, University of Oxford ‘Dancing in Early Modern Drama’ |
| 09:30 |
Charlotte Ewart, Associate Artist for Historic Royal Palaces ‘Re-capturing the Dance and Drama of the English Court Masque’ |
| VII: Dance in Drama - McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Joanna Jarvis | |
| 10:00 |
Uta Dorothea Sauer, Technische Universität Dresden ‘Dance and Poetry in the Works of Maria Aurora von Königsmarck’ |
| 10:30 |
Amanda Danielle Moehlenpah, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ‘A Dance Within a Dance: The Presence of the Contredanse within Staged Productions in 18th -Century France’ |
| 11:00 | Coffee, Conduit Room |
| VIII: Pantomime, Acrobats & Grotesquery, McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Hanna Walsdorf | |
| 11:30 |
Béatrice Pfister, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 ‘From Theatre Plays to Pantomime Ballets: Poetics of Adaptation in the Second Half of the 18th Century’ |
| 12:00 |
Domenico Pietropaolo, University of Toronto ‘Violence and Buffoonery in Grotesque Dance’ |
| 12:30 |
Gerrit Berenike Heiter, University of Vienna; University of Leipzig ‘Il Gimnasta (1751-1756): Acrobatic Performances in Connection with Other Theatrical Performances’ |
| 13:00 | Lunch, South Undercroft |
| IX: Dance at Court, McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Uta Dorothea Sauer | |
| 14:00 |
Carola Finkel, Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts ‘A Recently Discovered Ballet for the Court of Wolfenbüttel’ |
| 14:30 |
Kathrin Stocker, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Universität Leipzig ‘Paris Revisited: Two Ballets from the Württemberg Court and the Image of the Prince’ |
| 15:00 |
Jennifer Thorp, New College, Oxford ‘Offstage Drama on Stage, 1685: James II, the Duke of Monmouth and Albion and Albanius’ |
| 15:30 | Tea, South Undercroft |
| X: Drama off the Stage, McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Mary Collins | |
| 16:00 |
Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University ‘Upstaged by the Drama in the Audience’ |
| 16:30 |
Michael Burden, New College, Oxford ‘The Riot at the Ballet, 1813’ |