20th Annual Oxford Dance Symposium

New College, Oxford

Links to Symposium Abstracts

 

The Timetable at a glance

Tuesday 17th  
10:00 Registration, Coffee, Conduit Room
  I: Theories - McGregor-Matthews Library, Chair:    Michael Burden
10:30

Arianna Fabbricatore, Nantes University (ANR CIRESFI) - Paris-Sorbonne University

‘When Bodies Tell a Story: A Theoretical Study on Dance Dramaturgy’

11:00

Keiko Kawano, Osaka University

‘Ménestrier’s Theory of the Dance as Drama: Origin of the Ballet d’Action’

11:30

Dominique Bourassa, Yale University

‘Terpsichore in the Spotlight of the Lumières: Dance in the Classification of Knowledge During the Age of Reason’

  II: Keynote Paper, Chair: Jennifer Thorp
12:00

Edith Lalonger, Paris

‘Flowers and Weapons: Ballets Figurés in the Operas of Jean-Philippe Rameau’

13:00 Lunch, The Hall
  III: Telling stories - McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Iris Julia Bührle
14:00

Catherine Dulin, University of Roehampton

‘Lustspiele, German Comedies in Vienna: A Path to the Early Waltz’

14:30

Hanna Walsdorf, University of Leipzig

‘Moving Orfeo, 1607–1762: Or, How to Do Things with Dance’

15:00

Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex

‘Dancing the Hornpipe in The Beggar’s Opera‘ 

15:30

Alexandra Grundler, University of California, Santa Cruz

‘The Sylph and The Wilis: Romantic Ballet as Mythic Drama’

16:00 Tea, Conduit Room
  IV: Ballet d'Action - Lecture Room 6, Chair: Michael Burden
16:30

Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar

‘All the World’s A Stage: Pursuing Iconography of the Ballet D’Action by Any Other Means’

17:00

Petra Dotlacilova, Stockholm University

‘Drama at the First Sight: Characterisation of the Role via Costume in Noverre’s Ballets’

  V: Realisations, Lecture Room 6, Chair: Jennifer Thorp
17:30

Rachel Brown, Royal College of Music, & Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music

‘From Page to Stage and Nuance in 18th-Century Dance’

18:15

Ricardo Barros, Royal Academy of Music

‘Apollon: Disheartened Hero or Afflicted God?’

19:00 Reception, Founder's Library
19:30 Dinner, Founder's Library
Wednesday 18th  
  VI: Dancing in England, McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Joanna Jarvis
09:00

 Iris Julia Bührle, New College, University of Oxford

‘Dancing in Early Modern Drama’

09:30

Charlotte Ewart, Associate Artist for Historic Royal Palaces

‘Re-capturing the Dance and Drama of the English Court Masque’

  VII: Dance in Drama - McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Joanna Jarvis
10:00

Uta Dorothea Sauer, Technische Universität Dresden

‘Dance and Poetry in the Works of Maria Aurora von Königsmarck’

10:30

Amanda Danielle Moehlenpah, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

‘A Dance Within a Dance: The Presence of the Contredanse within Staged Productions in 18th -Century France’

11:00 Coffee, Conduit Room
  VIII: Pantomime, Acrobats & Grotesquery, McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Hanna Walsdorf
11:30

Béatrice Pfister, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3

‘From Theatre Plays to Pantomime Ballets: Poetics of Adaptation in the Second Half of the 18th Century’

12:00

Domenico Pietropaolo, University of Toronto

‘Violence and Buffoonery in Grotesque Dance’

12:30

Gerrit Berenike Heiter, University of Vienna; University of Leipzig

‘Il Gimnasta (1751-1756): Acrobatic Performances in Connection with Other Theatrical Performances’

13:00 Lunch, South Undercroft
  IX: Dance at Court, McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Uta Dorothea Sauer
14:00

Carola Finkel, Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts

‘A Recently Discovered Ballet for the Court of Wolfenbüttel’

14:30

Kathrin Stocker, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Universität Leipzig

‘Paris Revisited: Two Ballets from the Württemberg Court and the Image of the Prince’

15:00

Jennifer Thorp, New College, Oxford

‘Offstage Drama on Stage, 1685: James II, the Duke of Monmouth and Albion and Albanius’

15:30 Tea, South Undercroft
  X: Drama off the Stage, McGregor Matthews Library, Chair: Mary Collins
16:00

Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University

‘Upstaged by the Drama in the Audience’

16:30

Michael Burden, New College, Oxford

‘The Riot at the Ballet, 1813’