The University of Chichester, Kingston University, University of Roehampton, and Royal Holloway University of London in collaboration with the Society for Dance Research present
Popular Dance: Curating, Collecting, Reflecting
Saturday, 24th October 2015
University of Roehampton, Dance Department, Froebel College
Schedule
9.15 -10.00 Registration & refreshments, Front Foyer and Terrace Room, Grove House
10.00 -10.15 Introduction, Ann R David, Adam Room, Grove House
Provocation, Prof Theresa Buckland
10.15 -11.45 Panel 1 (Adam Room, Grove House)
10.15 ‘Larraine Nicholas: “Unskilled Theatre Workers”? The professional beginnings of dancers at the Windmill Theatre
10.45 Stephanie Schroedter : Genealogies of kinesthetic listening exemplified by popular dance/music cultures of the 19th century
11.15 Rowan McLelland: “Swivels like Jewel”; negotiating the past in the present in the 21st century swing dance revival’
11.45 -12.00 Short break
12.00 -1.30 Panel 2 (Adam Room, Grove House)
12.00 Tone Erlien: Curating dance exhibitions and meeting places at museums. How dance can benefit from museums and how museums benefit dance
12.30 Valeria Lo Iacono: Can online videos be powerful tools to curate dance as a form of cultural heritage? The case of Egyptian raqs sharqi.
1.00 Karen Rose Cann: Embodied practice as collection, curation and reflection for the study of linked chain and round dances
1.30-2.30 LUNCH – at The Hive cafe, with coffee, tea & juice
2.30-4.00 Panel 3 (Adam Room, Grove House)
2.30 Melissa Blanco Borelli: ‘You Can’t Out-do Black People’: Collecting Pleasure on the Soul Train Line
3.00 Alexandra Harlig: DO Read the Comments, and Watch the Videos: The Discursive Negotiation of Genre, Ethics, and Sociality for Popular Dance Audiences on YouTube
3.30 Jonathan Skinner: ‘Embodied curation in dance ethnography’
4.00-4.15 Short break
4.15 – 5.00 Respondent: Prof Andrée Grau (Terrace Room, Grove House), followed by discussion.
5.00 END
Costs (includes lunch and refreshments)
Full price £35
SDR members £30
Students/unwaged £20
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