Timetable
Tuesday 16th
10.30 Registration & Coffee – Conduit Room
Panel I Schools, Professional Training, Teaching - McGregor-Matthews Library
11.00 Olive Baldwin & Thelma Wilson, Essex
Honest Jo. Priest’s School in Chelsea
11.30 Jennifer Thorp, New College, University of Oxford
Worshipful Companions: Dancing-Masters and the City of London Musicians Company
12.00 Jane Pritchard, Victoria and Albert Museum
The National Training School for Dancing 1876 – 1908
12.30 Nadine Meisner, Independent Scholar
About the Condition of Dance Today by Arthur Saint-Léon
1.00 Lunch – The Hall
Panel II Institutions and Professions - McGregor-Matthews Library
2.00 Anne Daye, Independent Scholar
The Dance Profession of Early Stuart England: A Story of Success and Failure
2.30 Cornelis Vanistendael, Leuven, Belgium
Courting a Dancing Court in Waiting. Winning Hearts and Minds of the Restauration of Absolutist Power in Brussels (1813 – 1818)
3.00 Laura Monrós-Gaspar, Universitat de València
The Grecian Saloon (1851-1867): Assembling Classical Myths and Popular Audiences with Clarissa Ann (Bennett) Conquest
3.30 Tea – South Undercroft
Panel III Keynote Address - McGregor-Matthews Library
4.00 Hanna Walsdorf, University of Basel
The Church, the Dance, and the Witches’ Sabbath Panel IV: The Gentleman Dancing Master – Lecture Room 6
5.00 Jennifer Thorp, University of Oxford with dancers Anne Deller and Kath Waters, Apollo's Revels
Four dances by Mr Isaac
5.30 Drinks Reception & Book Launch – New College Cloisters
Jennifer Thorp, The Gentleman Dancing-Master; Mr Isaac and the English Royal Court from Charles II to Queen Anne, published by Clemson University Press. The book will be launched by the Warden of New College, Miles Young.
7.30 Dinner – Founder’s Library
Wednesday 17th
Panel V: Stages and Theatres - McGregor-Matthews Library
9.00 Alena Shmakova, The City of Edinburgh Council, Adult Education Programme
Dancing on the Stage in Edinburgh in the Eighteenth Century
9.30 Sarah McCleave, Queen’s University Belfast
The Pretensions of Fanny Bias: Managing a Career at the Paris Opera, 1807-1825
10.00 Lynn Matluck Brooks, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster
A Tale of Two Theatres in 1850s Philadelphia
10.30 Melissa Melpignano, University of Texas at El Paso
Italian Public Theatres and State Formation: A Contested History through Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Dance Librettos
11.00 Coffee – South Undercroft
Panel VI: Costumes and Images - McGregor-Matthews Library
11.30 Thierry Jaquemet, Independent Scholar
Deceptive Romantic Ballet Prints: Three Images Wrongly Associated with Flora Fabbri
12.00 Uta Dorothea Sauer, Preparatory Colleges of TU Dresden and Unipark Institute
Costumed Role Reversal in Courtly Ceremonies
12.30 Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar
Hunt the Slipper
1.00 Lunch – The Hall
Panel VII Georgian Institutions at Home and Abroad - McGregor-Matthews Library
2.00 Hillary Burlock, University of Newcastle
Electing Bath’s Arbiter Elegantiarum
2.30 Michael Burden, New College, University of Oxford
Dance in the London Opera Season of 1813
3.00 Tea – South Undercroft
Panel VIII Institutions intertwined - McGregor-Matthews Library
3.30 Ambre Emory-Maier, Kent State University
Costume Cross-Pollination on the Ballet Stage and in the Ballroom: Dancing in between the Lines
4.00 Cara Gargano, Long Island University
Jane Avril: Dancing at Contrasting Institutions of Madness and Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
4.30 Juliane Pöche, University of Hamburg
The Opera Garnier as a French “Festspielhaus“? Wagner Reception in Sylvia (1876)