Biennial Conference 2014.
Dates: 10-12 avril 2015
Lieu: Prior Park College, Ralph Allen Drive,
Bath, Somerset BA2 5AH
http://www.earlydancecircle.co.uk/bookingformconf2014.pdf
This conference will be of interest to dancers and historical dance researchers and also to costume designers, historians, musicians and drama students.
To find out more about the EDC please visit our website:
http://www.earlydancecircle.co.uk/
Mr Ellis Rogers will call a Regency Ball on Saturday evening, with music by Green Ginger. Everyone is welcome, whether attending the Conference or not. You can expect some fascinating presentations and workshops. From dance cards to dancing spies, social climbers and wedding guests, our speakers will focus on dance in a variety of settings, including dances in specific theatres and palaces.
Programme
Christine Bayle: A Few Steps, a new dance, as you like it. WORKSHOP
Andrea Strassberger: The Dance Card Collection in the Vienna Museum.
Françoise Carter: Chivalry and Courtly Dance: the influence of the Norman conquest of 1066 on courtly dance in medieval England.
Hazel Dennison: Delizie e Danze: a tangible context, an intangible heritage. WORKSHOP
Alexandra Kajdanska: “The dancers themselves should be honourable and well brought up people”;dance customs at weddings in sumptuary laws in Gdansk in the 17th and 18th century.
Georgina Boyes: Dancing Spies: Nazi attempts to infiltrate the English Folk Revival
Barbara Segal: “Every Savage can Dance”; dance style as a cultural identifier.
Jennifer Thorp: Mrs Elford: stage dancer and teacher in London, 1700-1730.
Cornelis Vanistendael: Napoleon's Grande Armée: a Driving Force Behind the Distribution of Dance Repertoires in Continental Europe (1803–1815).
Tiziana Leucci: The Apotheosis of Louis XIV as Bacchus Winning India in the Court Ballet Le Triomphe de l'Amour (1681): an example of politics at play, in a play within a play.
Jadwiga Nowaczek: Reconstructing the Ball Scene in Goethe's Werther. PERFORMANCE & TALK
Isabel Suri: “Arches and Arcades”. WORKSHOP
Hannelore Unfried: L'Alliance: a Viennese quadrille with Polka-Mazurka steps.WORKSHOP Charlotte Ewart: Stones in their Shoes and Domenico in a Miniskirt: is what is performed at today's heritage sites really Early Dance?
Bill Tuck: The Dances in Dioclesian: the Dorset Garden Theatre as performance space.