Dance and Heritage: Creation, Re-creation and Recreation

Saturday, 20 March 2010 - Sunday, 21 March 2010
Venue: 
Shenley Lane
AL2 1AF London Colney
United Kingdom
Visit homepage of All Saints Pastoral Centre
Phone number 01727 829306
Involved people or groups: 
3 Thornhill Square
N1 1BQ London
United Kingdom
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Phone number + 44 (0)20 7700 4293
Contacts: 
3 Thornhill Square
N1 1BQ London
United Kingdom
Visit homepage of Barbara Segal
Phone number + 44 (0)20 7700 4293

Biennial Conference 2010
Dance and Heritage: Creation, Re-creation and Recreation
Sat 20th & Sun 21st March 2010 St Albans

The influence of heritage on dance creation through the centuries, e.g. the humanist, chivalric or classical influences on Renaissance choreographies; classical mythology and masques and ballets de cour; classical influences on 18th century dance creations; the influence of the 18th century on late 19th/early 20th century dance school choreographers...

  • The influence of a notional, ‘imagined’ heritage on actual dance creation – an imagined celestial harmony – an imagined court – an imagined village
  • Folk Dance: Cecil Sharp (Re-creation of an imagined folk heritage) vs Mary Neal (recreation)
  • Isadora Duncan and the Greek Muses
  • Issues of the authenticity of re-creations
  • Presenting history through dance (without using the choreography of the past)
  • Presenting history through dance (using dance of the past to represent that heritage)
  • Is there a place for new choreographies using historical dance styles?
  • Can authentic re-creations attract modern audiences?
  • Dance heritage and education – bringing history alive

The conference proceedings will be published. The text may be expanded for publication.

LECTURES & DEMONSTRATIONS

At the Conference, we
look forward to the award of the Peggy Dixon Trophy and
to a tribute to our President, Dr Geraldine Stephenson.

Klaus Abromeit

Little Punch meets Alexander the Great
- Lecture/Demonstration

Jeremy Barlow

Picturing the Past: Later illustrations
of the dance in the garden from Le roman de la rose (c1230)

Cathie Bowness Past Performance: A review of intentions and outcomes, in three acts -Lecture/Demonstration

Georgina Boyes

Featureless flannels and vulgar fichus:
Problems of dress in the English Folk Dance
Revival

Michael Bukht

Bonnets and Bullshit: the effect of popular
and participative culture on the interpretation, understanding and
presentation of early dance.

Frances Campbell

Variety is the spice of life -
variations on the double step - Lecture/Workshop

Francoise Carter

The idea of cosmic harmony in
late 16th - and early 17th-century court ballet

Ingolf Collmar

Emotion of an Echo - Performance of
Modern Baroque

Anne Daye

Early [modern] dance and the genesis of
[Early] Modern dance

Moira Goff

Deadly Complaisance?
Lecture/Demonstration

Tiziana Leucci

Théophile Gautier on Maria Taglioni’s
‘creation’ of the Bayadère character and the Indian Temple Dancers performing in Paris in 1838

Tiziana Leucci

From Dasi Attam to Bharata
Natyam: re-definition and re-creation of a South Indian dance style in
the first half of the 20th century -
Performance

Barbara Kane

Looking at Isadora Duncan’s use of
Ancient Greek Myth, Muses and Philosophy - Lecture/Demonstration/Workshop.

Jackie Marshall-

Ward

Dance Alive!

Cecilia Nocilli

Recreation of
Historical Dance: a Legacy of the Collective Imagination of the Screen

Kimiko Okamoto

Two Sisters’ Separate Paths: Early
Dance and Early Music in the Age of Postmodernism

Nira Pullin & William
Wilson

Everybody’s Doin’ It - A Ragtime
Workshop

Barbara Segal

John Weaver and John Rich: Re-creation
versus Recreation in 18th century Pantomime

Bill Tuck “Chivalric Humanism” and the role of the basse
danse in the re-creation of a mythic past at the 15thC Burgundian Court

Tomasz
Marcin Wrona

Court ballet into milky–bar–arts’ times: a Cultural Studies’ view of dance
reconstruction

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