Seventeenth century ballet: a multi-art spectacle
An International Interdisciplinary Symposium
Date: 7 August 2010
Venue: King’s College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
9:00-9:30 Registration/Coffee
9:30-12:00 Italian Ballet (Chair: Prof. Ronnie Mulryne)
Professor Iain Fenlon (Cambridge)
Maria Magdalena of Austria and the Uses of Danced Spectacle
Professor Anthony M. Cummings (Lafayette College)
Dance and the ‘Other’: the Moresca
Cecilia Nocilli (Universidad de Valladolid)
The Art of the Dance in the Early Italian Seventeenth Century: Prima or Seconda Prattica?
Jennifer Nevile (School of English, Media and Performing Arts)
Choreography and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Danced Spectacles
Barbara Grammeniati (Roehampton)
Filippo d’Agliè’s ballet “Il Gridelino”
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-14:00 French Ballet (Chair: Prof. Margaret McGowan)
Professor Judi Loach (Cardiff University)
Menestrier’s Des Ballets Anciens et Modernes: The theoretical underpinnings of the first published theory of ballet.
Lionel Sawkins
Dance, Spectacle and Divertissement in Lully’s "Isis" (1677)
Klaus Abromeit
Let’s dance the “Balli die Sfessania”
Kimiko Okamoto
“Passacaille of Armide”: Rhetorical Aspects of the tragédie en musique
14:00-14:30 Coffee
14:30-6:00 European Ballet (Chair: Margaret Shewring)
Gerite Berenike Heiter
Court Ballet in France and Austria in the First Half of the 17th Century: A Comparative Study.
Anne Daye (Laban)
The masque as political tool: Tethys’ Festival June 5 1610
Jane Gingel
The Swedish Court Ballet: Feminist, Pacifist and Environmentalist
Elizabeth Dyer (University of York)
Ballet de Cour in Seventeenth-Century Belgian Augustinian College Theatre
Uta Dorothea Sauer (Technische Universität Dresden)
Genesis of the “Ballettoper” at the Court of Dresden (Saxony)
Stefano Fogelberg Rota (Università Maria Santissima Assunta)
War and peace in the court ballets performed during the reign of Queen Christina of Sweden (1644-1654)
Seventeenth century ballet:
Seventeenth century ballet: a multi-art spectacle
An International Interdisciplinary Symposium
Date: 7 August 2010
Venue: King’s College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
9:00-9:30 Registration/Coffee
9:30-12:00 Italian Ballet (Chair: Prof. Ronnie Mulryne)
Professor Iain Fenlon (Cambridge)
Maria Magdalena of Austria and the Uses of Danced Spectacle
Professor Anthony M. Cummings (Lafayette College)
Dance and the ‘Other’: the Moresca
Cecilia Nocilli (Universidad de Valladolid)
The Art of the Dance in the Early Italian Seventeenth Century: Prima or Seconda Prattica?
Jennifer Nevile (School of English, Media and Performing Arts)
Choreography and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Danced Spectacles
Barbara Grammeniati (Roehampton)
Filippo d’Agliè’s ballet “Il Gridelino”
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-14:00 French Ballet (Chair: Prof. Margaret McGowan)
Professor Judi Loach (Cardiff University)
Menestrier’s Des Ballets Anciens et Modernes: The theoretical underpinnings of the first published theory of ballet.
Lionel Sawkins
Dance, Spectacle and Divertissement in Lully’s "Isis" (1677)
Klaus Abromeit
Let’s dance the “Balli die Sfessania”
Kimiko Okamoto
“Passacaille of Armide”: Rhetorical Aspects of the tragédie en musique
14:00-14:30 Coffee
14:30-6:00 European Ballet (Chair: Margaret Shewring)
Gerite Berenike Heiter
Court Ballet in France and Austria in the First Half of the 17th Century: A Comparative Study.
Anne Daye (Laban)
The masque as political tool: Tethys’ Festival June 5 1610
Jane Gingel
The Swedish Court Ballet: Feminist, Pacifist and Environmentalist
Elizabeth Dyer (University of York)
Ballet de Cour in Seventeenth-Century Belgian Augustinian College Theatre
Uta Dorothea Sauer (Technische Universität Dresden)
Genesis of the “Ballettoper” at the Court of Dresden (Saxony)
Stefano Fogelberg Rota (Università Maria Santissima Assunta)
War and peace in the court ballets performed during the reign of Queen Christina of Sweden (1644-1654)