Timetable
Tuesday 19th
10.30 Registration & Coffee – Conduit Room
Panel I: Ballrooms Town and Country - McGregor-Matthews Library
11.30 Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex
Places for Dancing: Assembly Rooms in 18th-Century Essex
12.00 Jennifer Thorp, New College, Oxford
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (until next week): The Curious Life of Mr Christopher
Towle, Dancing-Master
12.30 Cornelis Vanistendael, Leuven, Belgium
The Circulating Waltz
1.00 Lunch – The Hall
Panel II: Dance in the Theatre - McGregor-Matthews Library
2.00 Pilar Montoya Chica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid UAM The Presence of Villano Dance in Spanish Historical Sources
2.30 Hanna Walsdorf, University of Basel
Of Mountain Ghosts and Waltzing Spirits: Dancing in Louis Spohr’s Romantic Opera
Der Berggeist (1824)
3.00 Michael Burden, New College, Oxford
A London Season: Dancing at the King’s Theatre in 1832
3.30 Tea – South Undercroft
Panel III: Venice, Vienna - McGregor-Matthews Library
4.00 Julia Bührle, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3/ German Centre for
Venetian Studies
Dance in Venice Before and After the Fall of the Republic
4.30 Joseph Fort, Kings ²ÝÁñÊÓÆµ London
From Beer Houses to Palaces: Dance Venues in Late-18th-Century Vienna and its
Suburbs
Panel IV: Town and Country Characters - McGregor-Matthews Library
5.30 Keynote Address
Margaret McGowan, University of Sussex
Dancing: Town and Country Characters in 17th-Century French Court Ballet
7.00 Reception – Founder’s Library
7.30 Dinner – Founder’s Library
Wednesday 20th
Panel V: Dance in France - McGregor-Matthews Library
9.00 Gerrit Berenike Heiter, University of Salzburg
The Motif of Village Weddings in French (Court) Ballets of the 17th and 18th
Centuries: Continuities and Variations
9.30 Beatrice Pfister, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Country Characters in 18th-Century Pantomime Ballets: From the Grotesque Genre
to a more Noble Approach
Panel VI: Dance in Ireland - McGregor-Matthews Library
10.00 Sharon Phelan, Munster Technological University
Dance in Ireland During the Colonial Era: An Absence of Dominion
10.30 Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music and Royal ²ÝÁñÊÓÆµ of Music
Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University
The Duchess, Cummings and the Butchers’ Daughters
11.00 Coffee – South Undercroft
Panel VII: Horses, Monkeys, and Madness - McGregor-Matthews Library
11.30 Anne Daye, Historical Dance Society
A Medley of Madness: Characters from Contemporary Life in the Jacobean Masque
1613 and 1614
12.00 Joe Lockwood, New College, Oxford
Images of Philip Astley and the Amphitheatre: Equestrian Dance and London’s
Illegitimate Theatre
12.30 Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar
Before the Planet of the Apes. Marvellous Mazurier; or, Monkey-business at
Covent Garden in 1825
1.00 Lunch – The Hall
Symposium Ends