Dancing for Anniversaries and Occasions: Chamber, Court, Theatre & Assembly
New College, Oxford
The Timetable at a glance
| Tuesday 21st | |
| 11:00 | Registration - Coffee - The Hall |
| I: Royalty at the Courts and Theatres - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 11:30 |
Anne Daye, TrinityLaban, London, and Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society ‘Entertaining the Mother-in-law: Salmacida Spolia 1640’ |
| 12:00 |
Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex ‘Celebrating and entertaining a new king and his bride’ |
| 12:30 |
Jennifer Thorp, New College, University of Oxford ‘Goodman’s Fields Theatre and the wedding of the Princess Royal in 1733-4’ |
| 13:00 | Lunch - The Hall |
| II: Versailles and Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 14:00 |
Iris Julia Bührle, Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris/ Stuttgart University ‘Dancing in Versailles from the Sun King to the French Revolution’ |
| 14:30 |
John Romey, Case Western Reserve University ‘Dancing in the Streets: Ballet de Cour on the Pont Neuf in Seventeenth–Century France’ |
| 15:00 |
Uta Dorothea Sauer, Technische Universität Dresden ‘Thematic context-relevant assimilation in ballets de cour’ |
| 15:30 |
Lionel Sawkins, London ‘“Not a single step of our ordinary dance was employed”: Dolivet, Beauchamps, and Lully entertaining the King back from his victories’ |
| 16:00 | Tea - The Hall |
| III: Politics in the ballroom - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 16:30 |
Helena Kazárová, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague ‘Dancing and dying for Napoleon: The Schwarzenberg Ball in Paris’ |
| 17:00 |
Cornelius Vanistandael, Leuven, Belgium ‘Dancing in the Barracks: Contexts for social dancing on the Eve of Waterloo’ |
| IV: Bending and protesting - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 17:30 |
Anna Mouat, University of Calgary, Canada ‘Dandizettes and the Grecian Bend’ |
| 18:00 |
Michael Burden, New College, University of Oxford ‘An anti-occasion: The London opera dancers’ protest’ |
| 18:30 | Reception - Founder's Library |
| 19:00 | Dinner - Founder's Library |
| Wednesday 22nd | |
| V: Choreography and Education - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 09:00 |
Hanna Walsdorf, University of Leipzig ‘How to Dance a Point in Time: Louis Pécour's La Naissance de Monseigneur le Duc de Bretagne (1704) for the Jesuit College Louis-le-Grand’ |
| 09:30 |
Carola Finkel, Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts ‘“La princesse de Darmstadt” – letter of application of a dancing master?’ |
| 10:00 |
Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar ‘The Vanishing Point 1815 – 2015: Two hundred years of Dancing on Pointe?’ |
| 10:30 | Coffee - The Hall |
| VI: Balls and parties, here and there - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 11:00 |
Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music ‘The “Dublin Gaities” and “a tidy family party”: Dancing at Castletown House’ |
| 11:30 |
Petra Dotlačilová, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague ‘Ballets, balls and parties in the correspondence of brothers Pietro and Alessandro Verri’ |
| 12:00 |
Madeleine Inglehearn, London ‘A brilliant appearance of Genteel Company’ |
| 12:30 | Lunch - The Hall |
| VII: Imagined dances - McGregor-Matthews Library | |
| 13:30 |
John Gill, Brighton ‘Romanis and Romanovs; how gypsies danced their way into the Romantic Imagination’ |
| 14:00 |
Alexander Schwan, Institute of Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin ‘“The flowers were at a ball last night”: Ephemerality and Festivity in 19th-Century Flower Ballets’ |
| 14:30 |
Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University ‘Minuets and Make-believe’ |