Staging Dance
Tuesday 21st
9.00 Registration & Coffee – Conduit Room
Panel I: Events - McGregor-Matthews Library
9.30 Petra Zeller Dotlačilová, University of Basel
Dine and Dance: Staging a Birthday Party for Cristina di Francia
10.00 Hanna Walsdorf, University of Basel
Making a Night of it: Dancing in the Streets of Paris during the Royal Entry of 26 August 1660
10.30 Alexander Robinson, University of Basel
Dancing ‘sur les décombres de la bastille’: The Federative Balls held in Paris in mid-July 1790
11.00 Coffee – South Undercroft
Panel II: Scenes and Machines – McGregor-Matthews Library
11.30 Emmanuelle Delattre-Destemberg, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France
Le Papillon: Staging and the Media-Technical Making of a Ballet Success
12.00 Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar
You’ll believe a Willi can Fly! – Special Effects in the Romantic Ballet
12.30 Blanca Gómez-Cifuentes, Complutense University, Madrid
British Scene Painters in Spain. Exchanges and Collaborations in 19th-Century Ballet
1.00 Lunch – The Hall
Panel III: Dance @ Venue - McGregor-Matthews Library
2.00 Olive Baldwin & Thelma Wilson, Essex
Dancing at the Royalty: Staging Dance at an Irregular Theatre in 1787-8
2.30 Amanda Hodgson, Independent Scholar
Staging Dance in the Early-Victorian Theatre: the Adelphi Season 1847-48
3.00 Kristine Feria, University of Toronto
Columbus at the Alhambra: The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and London Music Hall Ballet
3.30 Jane Pritchard, Victoria & Albert Museum
Staging Ballets at the Empire 1889-1904
4.00 Tea – South Undercroft
Panel IV: East <=> West - McGregor-Matthews Library
4.30 Nahyung Kim, Royal Holloway, University of London
Staging the “Far East”: Representations and Perceptions of East Asia on European Ballet Stages in the 19th Centuries
5.00 Ranjini Nair, University of Cambridge
Performing Difference: Indian Temple Dancers and the Politics of Repertoire in 1838 London
5.30 Dhanushka Seneviratne, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Reframing the ‘Devil Dance’: The Representation and Interpretation of Sri Lankan Dance in British Colonial Exhibition Culture
6.00-7.00 Drinks Reception & Book launch – Cloisters
Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century edited by Hillary Burlock, Ian Newman, and Mark Philp (London: Bloomsbury 2026) will be launched in this session
7.15 Dinner – Founder’s Library
Wednesday 22nd
Panel V: Staging Dance - McGregor-Matthews Library
9.00 Anne Daye, Historical Dance Society
The Early Masque Stages of Inigo Jones 1604 to 1610
9.30 Uta Dorothea Sauer, Preparatory College of TU Dresden
Scenically Conceived ‘Intermedi’: Laboratories for Staging Dance in Early Modern Courts
10.00 Jennifer Thorp, New College, Oxford
Staging Group Dances in the Theatre, from Noverre to Saint-Léon
10.30 Coffee – South Undercroft
Panel VI: Venice and Madrid - McGregor-Matthews Library
11.00 Julia Bührle, Semperoper Dresden
From the Paris Opera to the Fenice: Reception of “French” Romantic Ballets in Venice
11.30 Diana Campóo, Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco (Musikene)
Staging Dance in Madrid Opera Productions in the Early 18th Century
Panel VII: Personalities - McGregor-Matthews Library
12.00 Cara Gargano, Long Island University
Staging the “Bals à Chicard”: Performing a Joyous Dancing Iconoclastic Self
12.30 Nadine Meisner, Independent Scholar
Plagiarism or Coincidence: The Ballet Stage before Copyright Prevailed
1.00 Lunch – The Hall
Panel VIII: ‘Colonial Stages’ - McGregor-Matthews
2.00 Julie Norris, Charles Sturt University
Colonial Stages: Ballet in 1850s Australia and Europe – A Cross-Cultural Comparison
2.30 Sharon Phelan, Munster Technological University, Ireland
From Crossroads to Hearthstones: The Spatial Ecology of Irish Dance in the Colonial Period
Panel IX: Staging Character - McGregor-Matthews
3.00 Jonathan Stark, University of Basel
Couple Dancing Between the Urban Stage and the Alpine 'other' in Der Tyroler Wastel (1796)
3.30 Annamaria Corea, University of Rome La Sapienza
Signs of Vulnerability and Power. Staging Female Characters in Italian Pantomime Ballet, from Juliet to Marguerite
4.00 Tea – South Undercroft
Panel X: Tales as Told - McGregor-Matthews Library
4.30 Jacqueline N. Smith, St Hughs College, Oxford University
From Sylphs to Sleeping Princesses: Romantic Ballet in the Arc of 19th-century Fairytale Retelling
5.00 Thierry Jaquemet, Independent scholar
The Staging of Taglioni’s, Grandmougin’s, and Hansen’s Ballet Die Rebe (1893): Views on Authorship and Posthumous Transmission
5.30 Lynn Matluck Brooks, Franklin & Marshall College
Elusive Illusions: Charles Durang’s 1825 Staging of Cherry and Fair Star
6.00 Amanda Whitehead, Independent Scholar & Claudia Bauer, Independent Scholar
La Scala-style Notation on the London Music Hall Stage: Luigi Albertieri and Katti Lanner’s Cécile