Dancing for Anniversaries and Occasions: Chamber, Court, Theatre & Assembly
Ļć½¶Ö±²„, Oxford
The Timetable at a glance
| Tuesday 21st | |
| 11:00 | Registration - Coffee - The Hall |
| I: Royalty at the Courts and Theatres - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 11:30 |
Anne Daye, TrinityLaban, London, and Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society āEntertaining the Mother-in-law: Salmacida Spolia 1640ā |
| 12:00 |
Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex āCelebrating and entertaining a new king and his brideā |
| 12:30 |
Jennifer Thorp, Ļć½¶Ö±²„, University of Oxford āGoodmanās Fields Theatre and the wedding of the Princess Royal in 1733-4ā |
| 13:00 | Lunch - The Hall |
| II: Versailles and Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 14:00 |
Iris Julia BĆ¼hrle, Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris/ Stuttgart University āDancing in Versailles from the Sun King to the French Revolutionā |
| 14:30 |
John Romey, Case Western Reserve University āDancing in the Streets: Ballet de Cour on the Pont Neuf in SeventeenthāCentury Franceā |
| 15:00 |
Uta Dorothea Sauer, Technische UniversitƤt Dresden āThematic context-relevant assimilation in ballets de courā |
| 15:30 |
Lionel Sawkins, London āāNot a single step of our ordinary dance was employedā: Dolivet, Beauchamps, and Lully entertaining the King back from his victoriesā |
| 16:00 | Tea - The Hall |
| III: Politics in the ballroom - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 16:30 |
Helena KazĆ”rovĆ”, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague āDancing and dying for Napoleon: The Schwarzenberg Ball in Parisā |
| 17:00 |
Cornelius Vanistandael, Leuven, Belgium āDancing in the Barracks: Contexts for social dancing on the Eve of Waterlooā |
| IV: Bending and protesting - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 17:30 |
Anna Mouat, University of Calgary, Canada āDandizettes and the Grecian Bendā |
| 18:00 |
Michael Burden, Ļć½¶Ö±²„, University of Oxford āAn anti-occasion: The London opera dancersā protestā |
| 18:30 | Reception - Founder's Library |
| 19:00 | Dinner - Founder's Library |
| Wednesday 22nd | |
| V: Choreography and Education - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 09:00 |
Hanna Walsdorf, University of Leipzig āHow to Dance a Point in Time: Louis PĆ©cour's La Naissance de Monseigneur le Duc de Bretagne (1704) for the Jesuit College Louis-le-Grandā |
| 09:30 |
Carola Finkel, Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts āāLa princesse de Darmstadtā ā letter of application of a dancing master?ā |
| 10:00 |
Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar āThe Vanishing Point 1815 ā 2015: Two hundred years of Dancing on Pointe?ā |
| 10:30 | Coffee - The Hall |
| VI: Balls and parties, here and there - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 11:00 |
Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music āThe āDublin Gaitiesā and āa tidy family partyā: Dancing at Castletown Houseā |
| 11:30 |
Petra DotlaÄilovĆ”, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague āBallets, balls and parties in the correspondence of brothers Pietro and Alessandro Verriā |
| 12:00 |
Madeleine Inglehearn, London āA brilliant appearance of Genteel Companyā |
| 12:30 | Lunch - The Hall |
| VII: Imagined dances - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 13:30 |
John Gill, Brighton āRomanis and Romanovs; how gypsies danced their way into the Romantic Imaginationā |
| 14:00 |
Alexander Schwan, Institute of Theatre Studies, Freie UniversitƤt Berlin āāThe flowers were at a ball last nightā: Ephemerality and Festivity in 19th-Century Flower Balletsā |
| 14:30 |
Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University āMinuets and Make-believeā |