21st Annual Oxford Dance Symposium
Ï㽶ֱ²¥, Oxford
The Timetable at a glance
Tuesday 23rd | |
11:00 | Registration, Coffee, Conduit Room |
I: Setting Directions - McGregor-Matthews Library, Chair: Iris Julia Bührle | |
12:00 |
Uta Dorothea Sauer, Technische Universität Dresden '"Dancing Words"? Mimetic Dance and its Text-interpretive Function' |
12:30 |
Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar '1831! - Annus Mirabilis: The Making of Modern Ballet' |
11:30 |
Dominique Bourassa, Yale University ‘Terpsichore in the Spotlight of the Lumières: Dance in the Classification of Knowledge During the Age of Reason’ |
13:00 | Lunch - The Hall |
II: Reading Documents - McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Michael Burden | |
14:30 |
Olive Baldwin & Thelma Wilson, Essex 'Reading the Accounts: The Day-to-Day Life of the Lincoln's Inn Fields Dancers in 1726-7' |
15:00 |
Dominique Bourassa, Yale University Library 'Jean-Étienne Despréaux, Bibliophile' |
15:30 |
Tamara Caulkins, Oregon State University ‘The Science of Diagramming Dances and Military Drills in Enlightenment France' |
16:00 | Tea, Conduit Room |
III: Dance and Politics - Lecture Room 6, Chair: Uta Dorothea Sauer | |
17:00 |
Michael Burden, Ï㽶ֱ²¥, Oxford ‘Spies, Lies, and Dancing at London's Opera House in the 1740s; New Clues to the Biography of M. Froment - or Mr Fremont - Mr Frument?' |
IV: Realisations, Lecture Room 6, Chair: Hannah Walsdorf | |
17:30 |
Jed Wentz, University of Leiden 'Actors, Dancers, Attitudes: In Search of Common Ground' |
18:15 |
Barbara Segal, London ‘"'Tis not enough that ev'ry Stander-by, No glaring Errors in your Steps can 'spy:" From 'Reading the Page' to 'Reading the Dance'' |
19:00 | Reception, Founder's Library |
19:30 | Dinner, Founder's Library |
Wednesday 24th | |
V: Dancing in England, McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Jennifer Thorp | |
09:30 |
Katarzyna Koźma, University of Wroclaw ‘Reading is Imagining: Dance Instructions for Sir Roger de Coverley and Perception of Space, Self, and Movement' |
10:00 |
Natalie D. Kershaw, NDK Music Services ‘The Musician and the Dance: The Musical Interpretation of the Dance Using Playford's The Dancing Master' |
10:30 |
Iris Julia Bührle, Ï㽶ֱ²¥, Oxford ‘Foreign Flowers on British Soil: The ballet d'action in England' |
11:00 | Coffee, Conduit Room |
VI:Reading Writings, McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Jed Wentz | |
11:30 |
Keiko Kawano, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 ‘Pantomime in Diderot's Drama' |
12:00 |
Hanna Walsdorf, University of Leipzig 'Reading Taubert: References to his Published Writings on Dance, 1728-2019' |
12:30 |
Annamaria Corea, Sapienza University of Rome ‘Reading History in Italian Ballet Scenarios: The Case of Louis Henry' |
13:00 | Lunch, Hall |
VII: Dancing in France (mostly), McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Michael Burden | |
14:00 |
Gerrit Berenike Heiter, University of Leipzig ‘French Court Ballet Festival Reports; Or, How to Kindle the Imagination of the Reader' |
14:30 |
Michael Lee, Trinity College, Dublin ‘Adapting Lully for the London Stage: Reading a Chaconne of 1698' |
15:00 |
Tilden Russell, Southern Connecticut State University ‘"It's an S, It's a Z, It's... an L!": The Extra-ordinary Menuet ordinaire' |
15:30 |
Linda Tomko, University of California, Riverside ‘Meanings Made with Dancing in Lat Motte and Campra's L'Europe galante: What can Reading Dancing, and an Affect Model, offer to analysis?' |
16:00 | Tea, Conduit Room |