16-17 April 2010

12th Annual Dance Symposium

Celebrating Jean-Georges Noverre 1727-1810: his world, and beyond

Friday 16th April

9.00-11.00

Registration Old Bursary

10.30-11.15

COFFEE in JCR

11.15-12.15

Introduction and Keynote paper:

Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell, ‘Noverre in Milan: a turning point’

12.15-1.00

Anna Karin Ståhle, ‘The job application of J.G. Noverre to Gustav III in Sweden’

1.00-1.45

LUNCH in Hall

1.45-2.30

Bruce Alan Brown, ‘Musical sources for ballets by Noverre in the Schwarenberg family archive at Český Krumlov’

2.30-3.15

Michael Burden, ‘The ballets of François Hippolyte Barthélemon’

3.15-4.00

TEA in JCR

4.00-4.45

Lito Tsitsou, ‘The aesthetic and political premises of Noverre’s Action Ballet’

4.45-5.30

Catherine Turocy, ‘Noverre’s Les Petits Riens’

MGM

5.30-6.15

Marianna F. M. Monteiro, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, ‘Noverre and Lettres sur la Danse’

6.30

RECEPTION in Cloisters if fine (Founders if wet)

Cl/Founders

7.15

DINNER in Founders

Founders

Saturday 17th April

9.45-10.30

Jennifer Thorp, ‘Better to be a genuine Pierrot than a false Pyrrhus’: Ange Goudar and the ballets of Jean-Georges Noverre’

10.30-11.15

COFFEE in JCR

11.15-12.00

Edward Nye, ‘Noverre in the history of mime’

11.30-12.45

Alain Borderie, ‘Jean-Georges Noverre, the closing years in Saint-Germain-en-Laye’

12.45-1.00

Summing up

1.00

LUNCH in Hall. Conference ends.

Celebrating Jean-Georges Noverre 1727-1810: his world, and beyond

New College, Oxford

Links to Symposium Abstracts

 

The Timetable at a glance

Friday 16th  
09:00 Registration, Coffee, Old Bursary
11:15

Introduction and Keynote paper:

Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell, ‘Noverre in Milan: a turning point’

12:15 Anna Karin Ståhle, ‘The job application of J.G. Noverre to Gustav III in Sweden’
13:00 Lunch in Hall
13:45 Bruce Alan Brown, ‘Musical sources for ballets by Noverre in the Schwarenberg family archive at Český Krumlov’
14:30 Michael Burden, ‘The ballets of François Hippolyte Barthélemon’
15:15 Tea, JCR
16:00 Lito Tsitsou, ‘The aesthetic and political premises of Noverre’s Action Ballet’
16:45

Catherine Turocy, ‘Noverre’s Les Petits Riens’

MGM

17:30 Marianna F. M. Monteiro, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, ‘Noverre and Lettres sur la Danse’
18:30

RECEPTION in Cloisters if fine (Founders if wet)

Cl/Founders

19:15 DINNER in Founders
Saturday 17th  
09:45 Jennifer Thorp, ‘Better to be a genuine Pierrot than a false Pyrrhus’: Ange Goudar and the ballets of Jean-Georges Noverre’
10:30 Coffee, JCR
11:15 Edward Nye, ‘Noverre in the history of mime’
12:00 Alain Borderie, ‘Jean-Georges Noverre, the closing years in Saint-Germain-en-Laye’
12:45 Summing up
13:00 Lunch in Hall