Saturday 29 November 2014, 10:30 – 17:00
RHS West JPS133 (Room), London College of Fashion, John Prince’s Street, London W1G 0BJ
To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, the Society for Dance Research is holding a one day symposium that explores dance during this period. The impact of the First World War on the political, social and economic histories of the Twentieth Century has often been explored but what was its significance for dance? This exciting day will open dialogues on a particularly under-researched area in dance history and provide new insights into dance’s complex relationship with events and values of the World War One era.
The symposium will feature a keynote speech by Theresa Buckland, Professor of Dance History and Ethnography, University of Roehampton on the topic of ‘Popular Dancing Around the First World War’. This will be followed by papers by Ramsay Burt, Charlotte Ewart, Nicole Haitzinger, Michael Huxley, Carole Kew, Dana Mills, Larraine Nicholas, Jane Pritchard, and Marianne Schultz on topics that will include: the patriotic dance programming in London during the war; the war’s influence on artists such as Isadora Duncan, Wassily Kandinsky, Léonide Massine and Pablo Picasso; and the influences and preoccupations of social dance forms.
Fee:
Society for Dance Research members: Free
Waged: £25
Unwaged: £15
Book tickets: via Eventbrite
If you are interested in becoming a member of SDR (£27 unwaged / £40 waged), please complete this application form and send it to Edinburgh University Press. If you decide to become a member at the end of the event, we will deduct the ticket price from your membership fee. Those participants becoming new members for the conference will be given a membership for 2015 that will cover the rest of 2014. These new members will not be eligible to receive the 2014 copies of Dance Research but rather will start to receive 2015 copies.
Lunch and Breaks: There will be juice and water available for delegates but no hot beverages such as coffee or tea. Delegates are welcome to bring their own and Oxford Street amenities are very close by. There will be no formal lunch arranged but again Oxford Street offers many different food and drink options or delegates are welcome to bring a packed lunch.
Registration and sale of tickets for this event will close on Monday 24 November.
For enquiries, please contact Dr. Victoria Thoms on: vickithoms@wlv.ac.uk
This symposium is to be held together with the Society’s Annual General Meeting.
Schedule
Abstracts and Biographies
Images courtesy of the Imperial War Museum – “Trench Layout and Conditions: State of the reserve switch trench in December 1916”.
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