"Teaching Dance"
New College, Oxford, 2016
The Timetable at a glance
| Tuesday 19th | |
| 10:30 | Registration - Coffee - Conduit Room |
| I: Teaching Dance 1 - McGregor Matthews Library Chair: Anne Daye | |
| 11:00 |
Marie Glon, Université Lille 3 'Re-thinking "teaching dance"': The dancing masters and "dances in characters" |
| 11:30 |
Pilar Montoya, Conservatorio Superior de Castilla y León. COSCYL Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. UAM ‘An Unedited Source for Spanish Baroque Dance: The Nicolas Rodrigo Noveli Manuscript (Madrid, 1708)’ |
| 12:00 |
Fabienne Lagrange, Bordeaux Montaigne University ‘Teaching dance in the South West of France, 1600-1830’ |
| 12:30 |
Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University ‘The Manners-making Crew’ |
| 13:00 | Lunch - The Hall |
| II: The Dancing Body - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Iris Julia Bührle | |
| 14:00 |
Lindsey Drury, University of Kent at Canterbury ‘What is Walking and How to Do It: Textual Estrangement and Experiential Anatomy in the work of John Weaver’ |
| 14:30 |
Domenico Pietropaolo, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto ‘John Weaver’s Biological Mechanics of Grotesque Dance’ |
| 15:00 |
Keiko Kawano, Osaka University, Japan ‘Dance pedagogy in Letters (1760) by J-G Noverre: The originality of the body of the dancer’ |
| 15:30 |
Sergey Alferov, Fellow UKA, Scottish Country and Scottish Step dance branches ‘The art of being ‘natural’ in Francis Peacock’s Sketches (1805)’ |
| 16:00 | Tea - Conduit Room |
| III: Teaching dance in institutions – Lecture Room 6 Chair: Michael Burden | |
| 16:30 |
Iris Julia Bührle, University of Oxford ‘Teaching dance to would-be nobles, gods and shrews: dance lessons in ballets’ |
| 17:00 |
Dóra Kiss, IreMus / Paris; HEM / Genève ‘The Ludus pastoralis, a Jesuit school ballet (1734)’ |
| 17:30 |
Ricardo Barros, Royal Academy of Music, with Nicolette Moonen, Royal Academy of Music ‘Quarrelling Brothers: The establishment of the Académie Royale de Danse and changes in dance teaching’ |
| 18:00 |
Workshop 1: Ricardo Barros ‘Amongst mouvements and retakes: choreomusical relations’ |
| 18:30 |
Workshop 2: Anne Daye ‘A plain and easy cotillon’ |
| 19:00 | Reception - Founder's Library |
| 19:30 | Dinner - Founder's Library |
| Wednesday 20th | |
| IV: Networks and Networking - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Joanna Jarvis | |
| 09:00 |
Samantha Owens, Victoria University of Wellington ‘“Here No Rank is to be Observed”: The Role(s) of Dancing Masters and Dancing Nobility in German Courtly Ballets, 1650–1700’ |
| 09:30 |
Madeleine Inglehearn, London ‘Gentleman or Tradesman, the position of the Dancing Master at the royal courts of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries’ |
| 10:00 |
Uta Dorothea Sauer, Technische Universität, Dresden ‘Network of Dancing Masters in German Speaking Areas (1600-1750)' |
| 10:30 | Coffee - Conduit Room |
| V: Teaching Dance 2 - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Michael Burden | |
| 11:00 |
Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music ‘Hay Foot and Straw Foot: The Dublin Dancing Masters’ |
| 11:30 |
Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar ‘All Kit and Tight Trousers: The Image of the Dancing Master in Art and Caricature’ |
| 12:00 |
Anna Mouat, University of Calgary, Canada ‘Taking Stock of the Tourne Hanche: Training or Torture?’ |
| 12:30 |
Theresa Buckland, University of Roehampton ‘Teaching the people to dance in Victorian England’ |
| 13:00 | Lunch - The Hall |
| VI: Social dances - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Jennifer Thorp | |
| 14:00 |
Anne Daye, TrinityLaban, London, and The Historical Dance Society ‘Cotillons made Plain and Easy in an Accurate and Practicable Manner’ |
| 14:30 |
Joseph Fort, King’s College, London ‘The Danced Minuet in 1790s Vienna’ |
| VII: Caricatures and Portraits - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Samantha Owens | |
| 15:00 |
Michael Burden, New College, Oxford What she did during the interval: The dancer Mercandotti and a “young man of large fortune”’ |
| 15:30 |
John Gill, Independent Scholar ‘Lithographed Portraits in the Dance Collections of the Houghton Library’ |