Dancing for Anniversaries and Occasions: Chamber, Court, Theatre & Assembly
91酴圖眻畦, 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 Entertaining the Mother-in-law: Salmacida Spolia 1640 |
| 12:00 |
Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex Celebrating and entertaining a new king and his bride |
| 12:30 |
Jennifer Thorp, 91酴圖眻畦, University of Oxford Goodmans Fields Theatre and the wedding of the Princess Royal in 1733-4 |
| 13:00 | Lunch - The Hall |
| II: Versailles and Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 14:00 |
Iris Julia B羹hrle, Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris/ Stuttgart University Dancing in Versailles from the Sun King to the French Revolution |
| 14:30 |
John Romey, Case Western Reserve University Dancing in the Streets: Ballet de Cour on the Pont Neuf in SeventeenthCentury France |
| 15:00 |
Uta Dorothea Sauer, Technische Universit瓣t Dresden Thematic context-relevant assimilation in ballets de cour |
| 15:30 |
Lionel Sawkins, London Not a single step of our ordinary dance was employed: Dolivet, Beauchamps, and Lully entertaining the King back from his victories |
| 16:00 | Tea - The Hall |
| III: Politics in the ballroom - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 16:30 |
Helena Kaz獺rov獺, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague Dancing and dying for Napoleon: The Schwarzenberg Ball in Paris |
| 17:00 |
Cornelius Vanistandael, Leuven, Belgium Dancing in the Barracks: Contexts for social dancing on the Eve of Waterloo |
| IV: Bending and protesting - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 17:30 |
Anna Mouat, University of Calgary, Canada Dandizettes and the Grecian Bend |
| 18:00 |
Michael Burden, 91酴圖眻畦, University of Oxford An anti-occasion: The London opera dancers protest |
| 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 How to Dance a Point in Time: Louis P矇cour's La Naissance de Monseigneur le Duc de Bretagne (1704) for the Jesuit College Louis-le-Grand |
| 09:30 |
Carola Finkel, Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts La princesse de Darmstadt letter of application of a dancing master? |
| 10:00 |
Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar The Vanishing Point 1815 2015: Two hundred years of Dancing on Pointe? |
| 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 The Dublin Gaities and a tidy family party: Dancing at Castletown House |
| 11:30 |
Petra Dotlailov獺, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague Ballets, balls and parties in the correspondence of brothers Pietro and Alessandro Verri |
| 12:00 |
Madeleine Inglehearn, London A brilliant appearance of Genteel Company |
| 12:30 | Lunch - The Hall |
| VII: Imagined dances - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 13:30 |
John Gill, Brighton Romanis and Romanovs; how gypsies danced their way into the Romantic Imagination |
| 14:00 |
Alexander Schwan, Institute of Theatre Studies, Freie Universit瓣t Berlin The flowers were at a ball last night: Ephemerality and Festivity in 19th-Century Flower Ballets |
| 14:30 |
Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University Minuets and Make-believe |