19th Annual Oxford Dance Symposium

91酴圖眻畦, Oxford

Link to Symposium Abstracts

 

The Timetable at a glance

Tuesday 18th  
10:30 Registration, Coffee, Conduit Room
  I: Mapping the Civic Environment - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Michael Burden
11:00

Uta Dorothea Sauer, Technische Universit瓣t Dresden

Dance in German Cities and its Influence on the Civil Development

11:30

Jelena Rothermel, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Leipzig

Arlecchino crossing the Channel: Danced Interrelations between the Fairground Players of Paris and London

  II: The City Meets the Stage - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Anne Daye
12:00

Richard Semmens, University of Western Ontario

Prison culture, an urban folk-hero, and a failed pantomime: Harlequin Sheppard (Drury Lane, 1724)

12:30

Iris Julia B羹hrle, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, 91酴圖眻畦, University of Oxford

Shakespeare ballets from Noverre to Taglioni

13:00 Lunch, The Hall
  III: The Mechanics - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Jennifer Thorp
14:00

Carol G. Marsh, Washington, DC

The Theatrical Origins of Gennaro Magris Contraddanze

14:30

Erin Whitcroft, University of Exeter

A natural and cultivated gracefulness: how to move in the Eighteenth Century

15:00

Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex

Few and far between: female dancing teachers in eighteenth century British cities

15:30

Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University

Costume and the availability cascade. Female costume for dance on the London stage in the early eighteenth-century

16:00 Tea, Conduit Room
  IV: Cities McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Carol G. Marsh
16:30

30 Joseph Fort, Kings College, London

The Public Balls in Late-Eighteenth-Century Vienna

17:00

Fabienne Lagrange, Bordeaux Montaigne University CANCELLED

Ballroom dancing at the heart of the City of Bordeaux, during the long eighteenth century

17:30

Samantha Sing Key, Independent Scholar (formerly University of Sydney, Australia)

A delightful winter residence: the civilising role of the ballroom in early Washington, D.C.

  V: Practical session Lecture Room 6
18:00 Anne Daye Cotillions
19:00 Reception, Founder's Library
19:30 Dinner, Founder's Library
Wednesday 19th  
  VI: City Spaces and Venues - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Iris Julia B羹hrle
09:00

Theresa Buckland, University of Roehampton, London

Dance, Space and the City in Nineteenth-Century Britain

09:30

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

I never saw a more beautiful scene attended by great crowding and confusion

10:00

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

A Masque in the City, the City in a Masque: The Triumph of Peace, 1634

10:30

Caitlyn Lehmann, University of Melbourne

From Saddle to Stage: Ballet at Astleys Amphitheatre, 1780-1800

11:00 Coffee - Conduit Room
  VII: Genres - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Theresa Buckland
11:30

Cornelis Vanistendael, Leuven, Belgium

New quadrilles for the Soci矇t矇 Philharmonique dAnvers 1813 1818

12:00

Hanna Walsdorf, University of Leipzig

Hosting a Congress, Spreading a Dance Craze: Vienna and the Waltz?

  VIII: Colonial Dancing Lecture Room 6
12:30

Ricardo Barros, Royal Academy of Music, London

From the Terreiro to the Pa癟o The extraordinary journey of a dance form in colonial
Rio de Janeiro followed by a workshop

13:30 Lunch - South Undercroft
  IX: Representations - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Joseph Fort
14:30

Sophie Horrocks, English National Opera

Stone dancers in the city: the ballet girl and the nineteenth century public imagination

15:00

Hillary Burlock, Mansfield College, Oxford

What Dukes, what Drapers, what Barbers, and Peers: Representations of the Election Ball

15:30

Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar

Hanquin & Columbinichee; Dancing, Punch, and Muffins at Poplar Grove and the Dancers of the Juvenile Drama

16:00

Michael Burden, 91酴圖眻畦, Oxford

Images of Dancing (in London) with the Didelots