Dates: 8-10 juillet 2015
Lieu: Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venise)
Organised by the Institute for Music as the central event of its thirtieth anniversary celebrations, this conference will bring together approximately twenty researchers from across Europe and the United States. It is the first to be dedicated in Italy to a topic, the relations between dance and music, that is taking on ever more importance in theoretical reflection on the performing arts.
The conference will be opened by two keynote lectures. The first will be delivered by the French choreographer Dominique Brun, who among other projects has created a new “reconstruction” of Nijinsky’s legendary Rite of Spring (1913). She will be followed by the American composer Alvin Curran, who has long been a familiar figure in our country and will offer reflections on his experience in collaborating with leading artists from the world of dance, from Cunningham to Trisha Brown, Cosimi and Lucia Latour.
On the evening of 10 July at 6.30, John Irving will interpret a selection of sonatas by Joseph Haydn on the Jakesch fortepiano (constructed in 1823) belonging to the Giorgio Cini Foundation. Jonathan Owen Clark, a colleague of this renowned pianist at London’s Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, will introduce the audience to the relations between dance and instrumental music in the era of Haydn and Mozart.