Dance, Costume & Scenography

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Tuesday 18th

10:30 Registration & Coffee - Conduit Room

Panel I: Keynote Address - McGregor Matthews Library

Chair: Jennifer Thorp

11:30 Jane Pritchard, Victoria and Albert Museum

Dancing at the V&A

 

12:30 Lunch - Hall

 

Panel II: The Soul inside the Costume - McGregor Matthews Library

Chair: Hanna Walsdorf

2:00 I. Julia B羹hrle, Universit矇 Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3

Expressing the Most Secret Vibrations of the Soul: Vigan簷s Coreodramma in Focus  

2.30 Caitlyn Lehmann, University of Melbourne

Pinning Down Cupid: The Anacreontic ballet, 1790-1815  

3.00 Emmanuelle Delattre-Destemberg, University of Valenciennes (UPHF)

The Opera Rat: Costume and Representation of a Physiology of Theatres in the Nineteenth Century

 

3.30 Tea South Undercroft

 

Panel III:  Politics McGregor-Matthews Library  

Chair: Michael Burden  

4.00 Clare Tonks, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives

The Ballroom as a Celebration of Military Triumph  

4.30 Cara Gargano, Long Island University

Poitrines et Pantalons: Dressing for Resistance  

5.00 Hanna J瓣rvinen, Theatre Academy of UNIARTS Helsinki  

Pictures of Pagan Russia in the 1880s 

Panel IV:  Session with Gestures Lecture Room 6  

Chair: Michael Burden  

5.45 Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar

Dancing la Grecque at the Kings Theatre 1781 -1830 from Simonets Medea to Taglionis Flore. Part I; The Heroic  

6.15 Jed Wentz, Leiden University

Playing with Gestures in Dance: Jason en Medea (1762/1792) as a Locus for Expressive Experimentation  

 

7.00 Reception Founders Library  

7.30 Dinner Founders Library       

                        

Wednesday 19th  

Panel V:  Costumes, Bodies - McGregor-Matthews Library  

Chair: Caitlyn Lehmann  

9.00 Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex

Dancing Sailors and their Costumes on the London Stage  

9.30 Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University  Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, London

Simple Dress or Gew-Gaws and Tinsel?  

10.00 Lynn Matluck Brooks, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster

So Revealing: Ballerinas on Antebellum U.S. Stages  

10.30 Petra Dotlailov獺, Stockholm University

Relations between Costume, Character and Dance Styles in the Eighteenth Century  

 

11.15 Coffee South Undercroft  

 

Panel VI:  Dancing la Cour - McGregor-Matthews Library  

Chair: Anne Daye    

11.45 Dominique Lauvernier, Independent Scholar

Reconstructing the Stage at La Salle des Machines in Les Tuileries for La Grande Trag矇die dHercule Amoureux et le ballet royal dans矇 par leurs Maiest矇s entre les actes (Cavalli-Lully,1662) and Psych矇, trag矇die-ballet (Moli癡re-Lully,1671).  

12.15 Uta Dorothea Sauer, Preparatory Colleges of TU Dresden and Unipark Institute

Synesthesia-effects Through Natural Impressions and Spectacle in the Open-air Performance of the Op矇ra-ballet Les Quatre Saisons, Dresden 1719  

12.45 Sandra Tuppen, British Library, London

Le Triomphe de lAmour (1681): A Multimedia Spectacular on the Court and Public Stage  

 

1.15 Lunch The Hall   

 

Panel VII: Sets, and the Mise en scene - McGregor-Matthews Library  

Chair: Julia B羹hrle    

2.15 Michael Burden, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford  

Well Assorted to Character and Circumstances: Giovanni Gallinis Notion of Mise en sc癡ne  

2.45 Sarah Lenton, Royal Opera House, London

What Colour is White?  

3.15 Hanna Walsdorf, University of Basel

Ballet Comes with Strings Attached: Music as a Scenographic Device  

3.45 Jennifer Thorp, 91酴圖眻畦, Oxford

Lambranzis Scenography in 1716  

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