Dancing Objects
Tuesday 22nd
9.15 Registration & Coffee – Conduit Room
Panel I Shawls and Other Drapery I - McGregor-Matthews Library
Chair: Hanna Walsdorf
10.00 Joanna Jarvis, Independent Scholar
Giovanna Baccelli by Thomas Gainsborough 1782: An Apron or a Shawl?
10.30 Tiziana Leucci, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre d’Etudes Sud-Asiatiques et Himalayennes, Paris-Aubervilliers, France
The Oriental ‘veils’ and ‘shawls’ as a Sign of Modesty and Seduction in the Western Dance Productions from the Late 17th until the Beginning of the 20th Century
11.00 Coffee – South Undercroft
Panel II Shawls and Other Drapery II – McGregor-Matthews Library
Chair: Jane Pritchard
11.30 Idoia Murga-Castro, Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
The Manila Shawl in Spanish Dance: Between Transculturality and Identity
12.00 Alexander H. Schwan, Freie Universität Berlin
Tassels, Ribbons, and Festoons: Ornamental Objects in 19th-Century Dance
12.30 Natalia Cimpeanu, Dancer
The Enchanted Shawl in ‘La Sylphide’: A Catalyst of Tragic Transformation
1.00 Lunch – The Hall
Panel III Tap, Roller Skates, and Tambourines - McGregor-Matthews Library
Chair: Alexander H. Swan
2.00 Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar
Of Emma’s Tambourine
2.30 Amanda Hodgson, Independent Scholar
Dancing Tambourines; or, Why does Nora Dance a Tarantella?
3.00 Michael Burden, New College, Oxford
‘The “Ice Ballet” was rapturously applauded’; or, The Uses of a Pair of Roller Skates
3.30 Lucy Thompson, University of Cambridge
Tracing Early Tap Dance, Rhythm, and Improvisation in 19th-Century Transatlantic Performance The Timetable
4.00 Tea – South Undercroft
Panel IV Props - McGregor-Matthews Library
Chair: Michael Burden
4.30 Olive Baldwin & Thelma Wilson, Essex
The Theatre Debased and Prostituted: Ladder Dancing and Rope Dancing on the London Stage
5.00 Emmanuelle Delattre-Destemberg, Maison Française d’Oxford
Violin, Mirror, Watering Can, Slippers, and Dance Clothes: When Objects Document Practices and Imaginations of Dance at the Paris Opera in the 19th Century
5.30 Sharon Phelan, Munster Technological University, Ireland
The Use of Props in Pantomimic Dance in Ireland
6.00 Jane Pritchard, Victoria and Albert Museum
Choreography Limited by Props
6.30 Drinks Reception - Cloisters
7.30 Dinner – Founder’s Library
Wednesday 23rd
Panel V: Politics - McGregor-Matthews Library
Chair: Anne Daye
8.30 Christine Bayle, Dancer, Choreographer, Actress and Stage Director
An Example of the Dancing of Objects as Having Meaning: Louis XIII, Le Ballet de la Merlaison
9.00 Hanna Walsdorf, University of Basel
The Geocentric Sun King
9.30 Cor Vanistendael, Leuven, Belgium
The Dancing Ambassador. Studying the Role of Envoys and Ambassadors as Key Witnesses and Enablers of and as Performers in Court Dance Events (1789 – 1830)
10.00 Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music
The Baroque Shoe
10.30 Coffee – South Undercroft
Panel VI: Masks and the Exotic - McGregor-Matthews Library
Chair: Michael Burden
11.00 Anne Daye, Independent Scholar
Masquing Vizards: Function and Rationale
11.30 Uta Dorothea Sauer, Technische Universität Dresden
Dancing Objects under the Sign of Early Modern Exoticism
12.00 Dhanushka Seneviratne, University of Kelaniya
Sri Lankan Dance Masks: A Cultural and Artistic Legacy
12.30 Lunch – The Hall
Panel VII Georgian Assemblies, Maypole Ribbons - McGregor-Matthews Library
Chair: Jennifer Thorp
2.00 Chloe Valenti, Specialist Advisor (Music), Bath Assembly Rooms Project, National Trust
Dance Music Collections and Georgian Performance Practices at the Bath Assembly Rooms
2.30 Hillary Burlock, University of Liverpool
The Material Culture of Georgian Assembly Rooms
3.00 Susan de Guardiola, Independent Scholar
‘With a charming spirit’: The 1817 Berkeley Hunt Ball ‘Cheat Book’
3.30 Bryony May Kummer-Seddon, University of Lincoln
Decentring the Maypole: Maypole Dances in England 1600-1900
4.00 Tea – South Undercroft
Panel VIII Dancer’s Bodies, Image and Reality - McGregor-Matthews Library
Chair: Hillary Burlock
4.30 Ambre Emory-Maier, Kent State University
The Dancer’s Herbal Chest
5.00 Vanessa L. Rogers, Rhodes College
‘With Antick Measures We’ll Beat the Ground’: Wooden Legs, ‘Crutch’ Dances, and Performative Disability in 18th-Century London
5.30 Cara Gargano, Long Island University
The Dancing Body as Aesthetic Object: Fetishizing Ballerinas’ Body Parts
6.00 Jennifer Thorp, New College, Oxford
Framing Dancers