Dance, Costume and Scenography

Tuesday 18th

10:30 Registration & Coffee - Conduit Room

Panel I: Keynote Address - McGregor Matthews Library

Chair: Jennifer Thorp

11:30 Jane Pritchard, Victoria and Albert Museum

Dancing at the V&A

12:30 Lunch - Hall

Panel II: The Soul inside the Costume - McGregor Matthews Library

Chair: Hanna Walsdorf

2:00 I. Julia Bührle, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3

Expressing the Most Secret Vibrations of the Soul: Viganò’s Coreodramma in Focus  

2.30 Caitlyn Lehmann, University of Melbourne

Pinning Down Cupid: The Anacreontic ballet, 1790-1815  

3.00 Emmanuelle Delattre-Destemberg, University of Valenciennes (UPHF)

‘The Opera Rat’: Costume and Representation of a Physiology of Theatres in the Nineteenth Century

3.30 Tea – South Undercroft  

Panel III:  Politics – McGregor-Matthews Library  

Chair: Michael Burden  

4.00 Clare Tonks, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives

The Ballroom as a Celebration of Military Triumph  

4.30 Cara Gargano, Long Island University

Poitrines et Pantalons: Dressing for Resistance  

5.00 Hanna Järvinen, Theatre Academy of UNIARTS Helsinki  

Pictures of Pagan Russia in the 1880s 

Panel IV:  Session with Gestures – Lecture Room 6  

Chair: Michael Burden  

5.45 Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar

Dancing ‘à la Grecque’ at the King’s Theatre 1781 -1830 – from Simonet’s Medea to Taglioni’s Flore. Part I; The Heroic  

6.15 Jed Wentz, Leiden University

Playing with Gestures in Dance: Jason en Medea (1762/1792) as a Locus for Expressive Experimentation  

7.00 Reception – Founder’s Library  

7.30 Dinner – Founder’s Library                               

Wednesday 19th  

Panel V:  Costumes, Bodies - McGregor-Matthews Library  

Chair: Caitlyn Lehmann  

9.00 Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex

Dancing Sailors and their Costumes on the London Stage  

9.30 Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University  Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, London

Simple Dress or Gew-Gaws and Tinsel?  

10.00 Lynn Matluck Brooks, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster

So Revealing: Ballerinas on Antebellum U.S. Stages  

10.30 Petra Dotlačilová, Stockholm University

Relations between Costume, Character and Dance Styles in the Eighteenth Century  

11.15 Coffee – South Undercroft  

Panel VI:  Dancing à la Cour - McGregor-Matthews Library  

Chair: Anne Daye    

11.45 Dominique Lauvernier, Independent Scholar

Reconstructing the Stage at La Salle des Machines in Les Tuileries for La Grande Tragédie d’Hercule Amoureux et le ballet royal dansé par leurs Maiestés entre les actes (Cavalli-Lully,1662) and Psyché, tragédie-ballet (Molière-Lully,1671).  

12.15 Uta Dorothea Sauer, Preparatory Colleges of TU Dresden and Unipark Institute

Synesthesia-effects Through Natural Impressions and Spectacle in the Open-air Performance of the Opéra-ballet ‘Les Quatre Saisons’, Dresden 1719  

12.45 Sandra Tuppen, British Library, London

Le Triomphe de l’Amour (1681): A Multimedia Spectacular on the Court and Public Stage  

1.15 Lunch – The Hall   

Panel VII: Sets, and the Mise en scene - McGregor-Matthews Library  

Chair: Julia Bührle    

2.15 Michael Burden, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford  

‘Well Assorted to Character and Circumstances’: Giovanni Gallini’s Notion of Mise en scène  

2.45 Sarah Lenton, Royal Opera House, London

What Colour is White?  

3.15 Hanna Walsdorf, University of Basel

Ballet Comes with Strings Attached: Music as a Scenographic Device  

3.45 Jennifer Thorp, New College, Oxford

Lambranzi’s Scenography in 1716  

~ Symposium Ends ~