Session 1
08.30 – 10.15
The Irish Masque at Court:
metamorphosis in the Jacobean Masque / Anne Daye
Hercules Dancing in Thebes, in Pictures and Music/
Barbara Sparti
John Thurmond Junior — John Weaver’s Successor? / Moira
Goff
Session 2
08.30 – 10.15
Interculturalism and Authenticity in the Work of Uday
Shankar /Tresa Randall
Dance and the architecture of the Hindu temple:
exploring form and transformation/ Alessandra Lopez y
Royo
Dancing Histories: Choreography and the Aztec Codices/
Paul Scolieri
Session 3
08.30 – 10.15
Dance and the Terror: A Semiological Account Of
The Bals
à Victime/ Sarah Nixon Gasyna
Romantic-Era Almanacs and Dance History Research/
Madison U. Sowell
Exploring the Contours of Romantic Ballet in Italy:
The Work of Giovanni Casali and Antonio Cortesi /Debra H.
Sowell
10.15 – 10.30 Coffee
Break
Session 4
10.30 – 11.15
Putting the Canon in its Place: Tales From the
Database ’Stravinsky the Global Dancer’ /Stephanie Jordan &
Larraine Nicholas
Session 5
10.30 – 11.45
Narrating Dance Modernism/Karen
Vedel
Dangerous Allure, Safe Distance: Trapeze Disrobing
Acts and Other Aerial Stripteases/Jody Sperling
Session 6
10.25-11.50
Round Table:
Decentering the Dancing Text: an exploration of the interface between
intertextuality and hypertextuality / Emilyn Claid, Deveril, Janet
Lansdale
Session 7
14.15 – 16.15
Changing emphasis in jumping and lower leg technique
in ballet /Tony Bennett
Alicia Alonso’s Giselle:
As if It Were a Cuban Song. Expressions of Cubaness in a European Classic
/Lester Tome
Geography of a Dance: Yeats, Dance and
(Inter)Nationalism/ J’aime Morrison
Session 8
14.15-16.30
Special events: the role of dance in Handel’s
London operas /Sarah McCleave
Social Dancing in Warsaw at the Opening of the 19th
Century with Special Reference to the Life and Dance Music of Fryderyk Chopin /
Eric McKee
Richard Strauss & Ballet. Outcomes of a
Misunderstanding / Vesna Mlakar
Hearing the Dance: The George Balanchine Critical
Editions Vol I – Concerto Barrocco Revisited /Christian
Matijas
Session 9
14.15-16.15
Trickster Gods and Rapparrees: Retentions of Gaelic
Irish and West African Satiric Traditions in the Tap Challenge Dance /
Constance Valis Hill
Fractured Legacy / Terry Monaghan & Mo
Dodson
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The Tyranny of Documents and the Dance of Juba: An
Assessment of Newly Acquired Materials describing the Performance of William
Henry Lane (fl. 1848-51) /Stephen Johnson
Session 10<
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16.50-18.00
Webs of Identity, Webs of Heritage: A Conceptual and
Historical Examination of the ’The Birth of English
Ballet’/Alexandra Carter
The making of a National Style: The Emergence of an
English Dancing Style in the Early 20th Century/Geraldine Morris
Session 11
16.50-18.00
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Session 12
17.00-18.00
General Lafayette on American Shores; or
French-American Liasion in the Ballrooms of Baltimore 1780-1824. A paper-dance
demonstration presented by Chrystelle Trump Bond and Choreographie Antique, the
dance history ensemble of Goucher College
MORNING SESSIONS
09.00-12.20
Session 13
09.00-10.45
Panel: The Political Economy of Professional Ballet
– Misinterpreted or Misrepresented in the United States, England and
Canada from 1930 to 2002?
Dancing Along the Funding Tightrope: Project Grand
Jete and Canada’s National Ballet School / Norma Sue
Fisher-Stitt
Lincoln Kirstein, Ballet Caravan, and the 1930s / Lynn
Garafola
Ninette De Valois, Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard
Keynes III; Economics and ballet in London 1932-1942 / Carla Stalling
Huntington
09.00-10.45
Leftist Dance, Black Dance / Susan
Manning
Hospitality and translation in Katherine
Dunham’s L’Ag’Ya /Ramsay Burt
Queer Beauty: Ulysses Dove and Concert Dance in the
Africanist Grain / Thomas DeFrantz
Session15
09.00-10.45
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10.45 – 11.00 Coffee
Break
Session 16
11.00-12.15
Is Denishawn Relevant? Strategies for staging
”historical” dance / Laurie Cameron & Jennifer
Fisher
Session 17
11.00-12.15
Black Masculinities and Dance Theater in America /John
O. Perpener III
A Beacon for the People: Dianne McIntyre’s 1960s
/ Veta Goler
Session 18
11.00-12.15
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Session 19
14.00-16.00
Constructing ”Turkish-ness”. Querying
Agency in Anthony L’Abbé’s Turkish Dance
/Linda J. Tomko
Uncommon Steps and Notation in the Sarabande de Mr. De
Beauchamp /Ken Pierce
Session 20
14.00-16.00
Relational Movement Patterns: Movement Choirs and
their Social Potential in the Weimar Republic /Yvonne
Hardt
Jooss’s reckoning with God: The dialectics of
Death in The Green Table /Amira Mayroz
A Legacy of Ger
man Traditions in Modern Dance at the
University of Utah: Hanya Holm and Alwin Nikolais /Donna
White
Session 21
14.00-16.15
Jane Dudley’s Memoirs: Intersecting Perspectives
of an Embodied Past /Stacey Prickett
A World of her Own: Josephine Baker, George Balanchine
and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 / Beth Genné
Reading ”Angelitos Negros”. The Woman as
Creator / Laura M. Dennis
Drawing on the Body: Interpretations of Gypsy Flamenco
from La Cuneca to Eva La Yerbabuena /Ninotchka Devorah
Bennahum
16.15-16.45 Coffee
Break
Session 22
16.45-18.30
On Translating Taubert: A Preliminary Report /Tilden
Russell
Publish or Perish! Sixteenth-Century Dancing Masters
in Veneto / Katherine Tucker McGinnis
The Forlane: French
Fantasy or Italian Import?/ Carol G. Marsh
Session 23
16.45-18.00
From Körperkultur to www.massage.org: A Brief History of the
Somatics Movement / Carol-Lynne Moore
To Be Real: Authority and Authenticity in Somatic
Practices /Jessica Berson
Session 24
16.45-18.30
The Classical Ideal and ”The Labor of
Glamour”/Suzanne M. Jaeger
Privileging the Popular in Dance Studies /Sherril
Dodds
The Best Dance is when People Die in Movies/Roger F.
Copeland
Leonid Yakobson’s Choreography and Resistance:
Ballet and the Siege of Leningrad / Janice Ross
Tracing René Blum’s Disconsolate Words /
Judith Bennahum
Ashton and the Second World War / Alastair
Macaulay
Session 26
10.00-12.20
Staging ”Sweden”: Folk Dance Performance
/June Vail
Towards a ”Norwegian” Theatre Dance /Anne
Fiskevik
Dance Weddings and Wedding Dances/ Petri
Hoppu
Can you walk a little bit faster? Aspects of Dancing
the Quadrille in Late Victorian and Edwardian Society/ Teresa J.
Buckland
Session 27
10.00-12.20
"Volcano Songs" and beyond: The Work of
Meredith Monk /Rachel Boggia
Hi Everybody! A documentation and analysis /Victoria
Watts