The Dancer in Celebrity in the long 18th century: reputations, images, portraits in association with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

Ļć½¶Ö±²„, Oxford

Link to Symposium Abstracts

 

The Timetable at a glance

Tuesday 15th  
10:30 Registration, Coffee, The Marble Hall
  I: Keynote address: Haldane Room, Chair: Michael Burden
11:00

Shearer West, Humanities Division, University of Oxford

ā€˜Portraiture and the Birth of Celebrity on the Eighteenth-Century Stageā€™

  II: Audiences and Signifiers - Haldane Room
Chair: Michael Burden
12:00

Raf Geenens, University of Leuven

ā€˜ā€œDance, like morality, is in the eye of the beholderā€: Adam Smith on the role of the spectatorā€™

12:30

Kristin Flieger Samuelian, George Mason University

ā€˜Signification and the Dancing Body, 1760-1826ā€™

13:00 Lunch - The Buttery
  III: Images, personalities - Haldane Room, Chair: Anne Daye
14:00

Keith Cavers, Independent scholar

ā€˜New Finds: Old Friends - New Pictures; digging up Icons of the Danceā€™

14:30

Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University

ā€˜Natural beauty or ā€œPaint-paintedā€? Giovanna Baccelli by Thomas Gainsborough ā€“ 1782ā€™

15:00

Helena KazƔrovƔ, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

ā€˜Unknown portraits of Salvatore Vigano in Bohemian Collectionsā€™

15:30

Iris Julia BĆ¼hrle, Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris / Stuttgart University

ā€˜Capturing the hovering sylph: Marie Taglioniā€™

16:00 Tea - The Hall
  IV: Hester Santlow - Haldane Room, Chair: Bruce Alan Brown
16:30

Moira Goff, Independent scholar

ā€˜ā€œLovely in her countenance, delicate in her formā€: The portraits of Hester Santlow (c.1693-1773)ā€™

17:00

Marisa Iglesias, University of South Florida [Cancelled]

ā€˜ā€œBeauteous Wonder of a Different Kindā€: Hester Santlowā€™s Celebrity Statusā€™

  V: Dukes and dance - Haldane Room, Chair: Bruce Alan Brown
17:30

 Jennifer Thorp, Ļć½¶Ö±²„, University of Oxford

ā€˜Celebrity patrons: the Montagu family and dance throughout the eighteenth centuryā€™

18:00

 Anne Daye, TrinityLaban, London, and Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society

ā€˜Some are born great: the Dukes of York as dance celebritiesā€™

18:30 Reception - The Private Dining Room
19:00 Dinner - The Buttery
Wednesday 16th  
08:30 Coffee and pastries for all delegates - The Hall
  VI: Dancing in European Cities - Haldane Room, Chair: Jennifer Thorp
09:00

Uta Dorothea Sauer, Technische UniversitƤt Dresden

'The role of Dance in the Political Ballets at the Court of Dresdenā€™

09:30

Petra DotlačilovĆ”, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

ā€˜Jean-Georges Noverre and his luxurious ā€œjob applicationā€ to Warsawā€™

10:00

Hanna Walsdorf, University of Leipzig

ā€˜ā€œFormeront le Bosquetā€: Teenage Future Dance Icons on the Jesuit Stage in Parisā€™

10:30

Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music

ā€˜ā€œMy agreeable acquaintanceā€¦Mrs Egerton ā€¦will laugh very heartily on recollecting the many happy days, and whimsical adventures which occurred that winter in dear Dublinā€ā€™

11:00 Coffee - The Hall
  VII: Sultans and Hornpipes - Haldane Room, Chair: Iris Julia BĆ¼hrle
11:30

Adeline Mueller, Ļć½¶Ö±²„, University of Oxford

ā€˜A Peep into Mozart and Le Picqā€™s Serraglio (Milan, 1772): Noverreā€™s Tragic Reworking of a Comic Balletā€™

12:00

Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex

ā€˜The celebrated Miss Nancy Dawson and her hornpipeā€™

12:30 Lunch - The Buttery
  VIII: Circuses, Tumblers, and Hot Air - Haldane Room, Chair: Adeline Mueller
13:30

Monica Mattfeld, University of Kent, Canterbury

ā€˜John Astley, the Equestrian Hero: Masculinity, Celebrity and the Equestrian Dancerā€™

14:00

Michael Burden, Ļć½¶Ö±²„, University of Oxford

ā€˜Tumbling images: Carlo Antonio Delpini at workā€™

14:30

Caitlyn Lehmann, Independent Scholar

ā€˜Airy Delights: Ballet, Balloonmania and Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century Londonā€™