The Timetable

TUESDAY 23rd

11.00 Registration – Coffee – Conduit Room

Panel I: Setting Directions - McGregor-Matthews Library

12.00 Dorothea Uta Sauer (Technische Universität Dresden)

“Dancing Words”? Mimetic Dance and its Text-interpretive Function

12.30 Keith Cavers (Independent Scholar)

1831! - Annus Mirabilis: The Making of Modern Ballet

13.00 Lunch – The Hall

Panel II: Reading Documents (McGregor-Matthews Library)

14.30 Olive Baldwin & Thelma Wilson (Essex)

Reading the Accounts: The Day-to-Day Life of the Lincoln’s Inn Fields Dancers in 1726-7

15.00 Dominique Bourassa (Yale University Library)

Jean-Étienne Despréaux, Bibliophile

15.30 Tamara Caulkins (Oregon State University)

The Science of Diagramming Dances and Military Drills in Enlightenment France

16.00 Tea – Conduit Room

Panel III: Dance and Politics – Lecture Room 6

16.30 Lindsey Drury (University of Kent at Canterbury & Freie Universität Berlin)

The Open Letter and the War Dance: Osage Dance, Protestant Preachers, and Postcolonial Struggles for an American Protestantism

17.00 Michael Burden (New College, Oxford)

Spies, Lies, and Dancing at London’s Opera House in the 1740s; New Clues to the Biography of M. Froment - or Mr Fremont – or Mr Frument?

Panel IV: Realisations - Lecture Room 6

17.30 Jed Wentz (University of Leiden)

Actors, Dancers, Attitudes: In Search of Common Ground

18.15 Barbara Segal (London )

“’Tis not enough that ev’ry Stander-by, No glaring Errors in your Steps can ’spy:” From ‘Reading the Page’ to ‘Reading the Dance’

19.00 Reception – Founder’s Library

Panel V: Dancing in England - McGregor-Matthews Library

9.30 Katarzyna Koźma (University of Wroclaw)

Reading is Imagining: Dance Instructions for Sir Roger de Coverley and Perception of Space, Self, and Movement

10.00 Natalie D. Kershaw (NDK Music Services)

The Musician and the Dance: The Musical Interpretation of the Dance Using Playford’s “The Dancing Master”

10.30 Julia Bührle (New College, Oxford)

Foreign Flowers on British Soil: The ballet d’action in England

11.00 Coffee – Conduit Room

Panel VI: Reading Writings - McGregor-Matthews Library

11.30 Keiko Kawano (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3)

Pantomime in Diderot’s Drama

12.00 Hanna Walsdorf (University of Leipzig)

Reading Taubert: References to his Published Writings on Dance, 1728–2019

12.30 Annamaria Corea (Sapienza University of Rome)

Reading History in Italian Ballet Scenarios: The Case of Louis Henry

13.00 Lunch – South Undercroft

Panel VII: Dancing in France (mostly) - McGregor-Matthews Library

14.00 Gerrit Berenike Heiter (University of Leipzig)

French Court Ballet Festival Reports; Or, How to Kindle the Imagination of the Reader

14.30 Michael Lee (Trinity College, Dublin)

Adapting Lully for the London Stage: Reading a Chaconne of 1698

15.00 Tilden Russell (Southern Connecticut State University)

“It’s an S, It’s a Z, It’s … an L!”: The Extra-ordinary Menuet ordinaire

15.30 Linda Tomko (University of California, Riverside)

Meanings Made with Dancing in La Motte and Campra’s L’Europe galante: What can Reading Dancing, and an Affect Model, offer to analysis?