23rd Annual Oxford Dance Symposium

New College Oxford

Link to Symposium Abstracts

The Timetable at a glance

Date/Time Session/Speaker
Tuesday 20th  
  Panel I: Observing Balls
2:30

Anja K. Arend, Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen

The Diary of the Munich Dancer Michael Johann Laroche (1805-1870)

3:00

Arune Day, TrinityLaban, London; Historical Dance Society

Book-muslin Frocks and Primrose Coloured Sashes

3:30

Cornelis Vanistendael, Ghent University

Observing and Commenting on Napoleon's Court Balls & Its Audiences

4:00 Tea
  Panel II: Directions, Theories
4:30

Katarzyna Koźma, Independent Scholar

Thomas Hardy's Wessex: Watching the Dancers Through the Novelist's Eyes

5:00

Olivia Sabee, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania

Noverre in Translation

Wednesday 21st  
  Panel III: Suspicious Behaviour
2:30

Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex

Watching the Maskers: Masquerade Dances in the London Theatres

3:00

Béatrice Pfister, University of Lille

From Pantomime to Voluptuousness: Female Dancers and Male Spectators of 18th-century Pantomime Ballets

3:30

Hanna Walsdorf, University of Music and Theatre 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy' Leipzig

To Watch, or not to Watch: Johann Heinrich Hassel's Tirade against Ballet Dancing (1691)

4:00 Cocktails
  Panel IV: Images
4:30

Michael Burden, Faculty of Music, Oxford

Dancing Ancient and Modern; Decorating the King's Theatre

5:00

Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar

Through an Opera Glass Darkly - Alfred Edward Chalon R.A. Observes the 'Romantic Ballet'

5:30

Sarah McCleave, Queen's University Belfast

Portraits and Personae: Visions of Female Dancers, circa 1730-1840

Thursday 22nd  
  Panel V: Events
2:30

Aryama Bej, Jadavpur University

Imaging and Imagining Dance: (Re)watching the Nautch Girls of 19th-century South India

3:00

Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music & Rachel Brown, Royal College of Music

A Strange and Bizarre Dance

3:30

Chris Smith, Texas Tech University, School of Music

Dancing Revolution in the Caribbean Basin: Expressive and Revolutionary Movement and Moments in New Orleans History

4:00 Tea
  Panel VI: Music of the Dance
4:30

Sophie Benn, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland

Musical Anatomies and Scientistic Ruptures in Stepanov Natation

5:00

Natalie D. Kershaw, University of Birmingham

Simply Musick

5:30 Cocktails
  Panel VII: Aspects of Staging
6:00

Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University

Costume for Dance in late 18th-century London: How French was it? 

6:30

Jennifer Thorp, New College Oxford

Garlands, Swords, and Flying Dragons: When is a Stage Prop not a Prop?