Dancing in Town and Country

Tuesday 19th

10.30 Registration & Coffee – Conduit Room

Panel I: Ballrooms Town and Country - McGregor-Matthews Library

11.30 Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex

Places for Dancing: Assembly Rooms in 18th-Century Essex

12.00 Jennifer Thorp, New College, Oxford

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (until next week): The Curious Life of Mr Christopher

Towle, Dancing-Master

12.30 Cornelis Vanistendael, Leuven, Belgium

The Circulating Waltz

1.00 Lunch – The Hall

Panel II: Dance in the Theatre - McGregor-Matthews Library

2.00 Pilar Montoya Chica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid UAM The Presence of Villano Dance in Spanish Historical Sources

2.30 Hanna Walsdorf, University of Basel

Of Mountain Ghosts and Waltzing Spirits: Dancing in Louis Spohr’s Romantic Opera

Der Berggeist (1824)

3.00 Michael Burden, New College, Oxford

A London Season: Dancing at the King’s Theatre in 1832

3.30 Tea – South Undercroft

Panel III: Venice, Vienna - McGregor-Matthews Library

4.00 Julia Bührle, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3/ German Centre for

Venetian Studies

Dance in Venice Before and After the Fall of the Republic

4.30 Joseph Fort, Kings College London

From Beer Houses to Palaces: Dance Venues in Late-18^th-Century Vienna and its

Suburbs

Panel IV: Town and Country Characters - McGregor-Matthews Library

5.30 Keynote Address

Margaret McGowan, University of Sussex

Dancing: Town and Country Characters in 17th-Century French Court Ballet

7.00 Reception – Founder’s Library

7.30 Dinner – Founder’s Library

Wednesday 20th

Panel V: Dance in France - McGregor-Matthews Library

9.00 Gerrit Berenike Heiter, University of Salzburg

The Motif of Village Weddings in French (Court) Ballets of the 17th and 18th

Centuries: Continuities and Variations

9.30 Beatrice Pfister, Sorbonne Nouvelle

Country Characters in 18th-Century Pantomime Ballets: From the Grotesque Genre

to a more Noble Approach

Panel VI: Dance in Ireland - McGregor-Matthews Library

10.00 Sharon Phelan, Munster Technological University

Dance in Ireland During the Colonial Era: An Absence of Dominion

10.30 Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music

Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University

The Duchess, Cummings and the Butchers’ Daughters

11.00 Coffee – South Undercroft

Panel VII: Horses, Monkeys, and Madness - McGregor-Matthews Library

11.30 Anne Daye, Historical Dance Society

A Medley of Madness: Characters from Contemporary Life in the Jacobean Masque

1613 and 1614

12.00 Joe Lockwood, New College, Oxford

Images of Philip Astley and the Amphitheatre: Equestrian Dance and London’s

Illegitimate Theatre

12.30 Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar

Before the Planet of the Apes. Marvellous Mazurier; or, Monkey-business at

Covent Garden in 1825

1.00 Lunch – The Hall