Dance and Image

Saturday 2 May 2009

11th Annual Dance Symposium

11.00 am

Registration and coffee in the Undercroft

11.25 am

Introduction – Dr Suzanne Aspden (Music Faculty, Universityof Oxford) in the McGregor-Matthews room   

11.30 am

Jed Wentz (University of Leiden and Amsterdam Conservatory): ‘Lifting the Mask of Mademoiselle Horibilicribrifaxin: Dutch Prints of Dancing Dwarfs’ in the McGregor-Matthews room

12.15 pm

Linda J Tomko (Universityof California, Riverside): ‘Framing Turkish Dances’ in the McGregor-Matthews room

1.00 pm

Buffet lunch in the Undercroft

2.15 pm

David Taylor (Trinity College, University of Cambridge):  ‘Choreographing Power: Dance in Political Caricature of the Late Eighteenth Century’ in the McGregor-Matthews room

3.00 pm

Judith Milhous (Graduate Center of the City University of New York): ‘Picturing Dance in Eighteenth-Century England’ in the McGregor-Matthews room             

3.45 pm

Michael Burden (New College, Universityof Oxford): ‘Dance images at the King’s Theatre before 1830’ in the McGregor-Matthews room

4.30 pm

Tea in the Undercroft

5.15 pm

Jennifer Thorp (NewCollege, Universityof Oxford): ‘Borrowed Grandeur and Affected Grace’: perceptions of the Dancing-Master in Eighteenth-Century Englandin Lecture room 6

6.00 pm

Demonstration session in Lecture room 6.  Ricardo Barros, Barbara Segal, Jennifer Thorp, Linda Tomko, dancers and Jed Wentz, flute

6.45 pm

Drinks reception in the Panelled Room, SCR

7.30 pm

Dinner in the Panelled Room, SCR