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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, ǿ����Ƶ, 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, ǿ����Ƶ, Oxford

Framing Dancers

 

~ Symposium Ends ~