Staging Dance
Tuesday 21st
9.00 Registration & Coffee Conduit Room
Panel I: Events - McGregor-Matthews Library
9.30 Petra Zeller Dotlailov獺, University of Basel
Dine and Dance: Staging a Birthday Party for Cristina di Francia
10.00 Hanna Walsdorf, University of Basel
Making a Night of it: Dancing in the Streets of Paris during the Royal Entry of 26 August 1660
10.30 Alexander Robinson, University of Basel
Dancing sur les d矇combres de la bastille: The Federative Balls held in Paris in mid-July 1790
11.00 Coffee South Undercroft
Panel II: Scenes and Machines McGregor-Matthews Library
11.30 Emmanuelle Delattre-Destemberg, Universit矇 Polytechnique Hauts-de-France
Le Papillon: Staging and the Media-Technical Making of a Ballet Success
12.00 Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar
Youll believe a Willi can Fly! Special Effects in the Romantic Ballet
12.30 Blanca G籀mez-Cifuentes, Complutense University, Madrid
British Scene Painters in Spain. Exchanges and Collaborations in 19th-Century Ballet
1.00 Lunch The Hall
Panel III: Dance @ Venue - McGregor-Matthews Library
2.00 Olive Baldwin & Thelma Wilson, Essex
Dancing at the Royalty: Staging Dance at an Irregular Theatre in 1787-8
2.30 Amanda Hodgson, Independent Scholar
Staging Dance in the Early-Victorian Theatre: the Adelphi Season 1847-48
3.00 Kristine Feria, University of Toronto
Columbus at the Alhambra: The 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair and London Music Hall Ballet
3.30 Jane Pritchard, Victoria & Albert Museum
Staging Ballets at the Empire 1889-1904
4.00 Tea South Undercroft
Panel IV: East <=> West - McGregor-Matthews Library
4.30 Nahyung Kim, Royal Holloway, University of London
Staging the Far East: Representations and Perceptions of East Asia on European Ballet Stages in the 19th Centuries
5.00 Ranjini Nair, University of Cambridge
Performing Difference: Indian Temple Dancers and the Politics of Repertoire in 1838 London
5.30 Dhanushka Seneviratne, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Reframing the Devil Dance: The Representation and Interpretation of Sri Lankan Dance in British Colonial Exhibition Culture
6.00-7.00 Drinks Reception & Book launch Cloisters
Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century edited by Hillary Burlock, Ian Newman, and Mark Philp (London: Bloomsbury 2026) will be launched in this session
7.15 Dinner Founders Library
Wednesday 22nd
Panel V: Staging Dance - McGregor-Matthews Library
9.00 Anne Daye, Historical Dance Society
The Early Masque Stages of Inigo Jones 1604 to 1610
9.30 Uta Dorothea Sauer, Preparatory College of TU Dresden
Scenically Conceived Intermedi: Laboratories for Staging Dance in Early Modern Courts
10.00 Jennifer Thorp, 91勛圖厙, Oxford
Staging Group Dances in the Theatre, from Noverre to Saint-L矇on
10.30 Coffee South Undercroft
Panel VI: Venice and Madrid - McGregor-Matthews Library
11.00 Julia B羹hrle, Semperoper Dresden
From the Paris Opera to the Fenice: Reception of French Romantic Ballets in Venice
11.30 Diana Camp籀o, Centro Superior de M繳sica del Pa穩s Vasco (Musikene)
Staging Dance in Madrid Opera Productions in the Early 18th Century
Panel VII: Personalities - McGregor-Matthews Library
12.00 Cara Gargano, Long Island University
Staging the Bals Chicard: Performing a Joyous Dancing Iconoclastic Self
12.30 Nadine Meisner, Independent Scholar
Plagiarism or Coincidence: The Ballet Stage before Copyright Prevailed
1.00 Lunch The Hall
Panel VIII: Colonial Stages - McGregor-Matthews
2.00 Julie Norris, Charles Sturt University
Colonial Stages: Ballet in 1850s Australia and Europe A Cross-Cultural Comparison
2.30 Sharon Phelan, Munster Technological University, Ireland
From Crossroads to Hearthstones: The Spatial Ecology of Irish Dance in the Colonial Period
Panel IX: Staging Character - McGregor-Matthews
3.00 Jonathan Stark, University of Basel
Couple Dancing Between the Urban Stage and the Alpine 'other' in Der Tyroler Wastel (1796)
3.30 Annamaria Corea, University of Rome La Sapienza
Signs of Vulnerability and Power. Staging Female Characters in Italian Pantomime Ballet, from Juliet to Marguerite
4.00 Tea South Undercroft
Panel X: Tales as Told - McGregor-Matthews Library
4.30 Jacqueline N. Smith, St Hughs College, Oxford University
From Sylphs to Sleeping Princesses: Romantic Ballet in the Arc of 19th-century Fairytale Retelling
5.00 Thierry Jaquemet, Independent scholar
The Staging of Taglionis, Grandmougins, and Hansens Ballet Die Rebe (1893): Views on Authorship and Posthumous Transmission
5.30 Lynn Matluck Brooks, Franklin & Marshall College
Elusive Illusions: Charles Durangs 1825 Staging of Cherry and Fair Star
6.00 Amanda Whitehead, Independent Scholar & Claudia Bauer, Independent Scholar
La Scala-style Notation on the London Music Hall Stage: Luigi Albertieri and Katti Lanners C矇cile