Colloque international : «Danser Shakespeare»

Programme :

9.30-11 2 panels, salle des thèses, salle Marie Curie
Panel 1 – Early Modern dance: context, history and performance
Chair : Nancy Isenberg

• Emily Winerock (Point Park University) : “From Chamber and Churchyard to Stage and Page: Translocation, Adaptation, and Shakespeare’s Staged Dances”
• Raghav Verma (University of Tübingen) : “Shakespearean Dance and Performance Politics in Early Modern England”
• Ann Hinchliffe (Independent Scholar) : “How would Shakespeare's own company have danced in the plays?”

Panel 2 – “Ladies that have their toes”: Romeo and Juliet Panel 1
Chair : Eva Chou

• Leigh Witchel (Independent Scholar) : “Whose “Romeo” Is It Anyway?”
• Mattia Mantellato (University of Udine) : “Petr Zuska’s Romeo and Juliet. Reworking love through Queen Mab and Friar Lawrence’s dance battles and desires”
• Coffee break

11.30-1pm Roundtable
Amphithéâtre Bilsky-Pasquier
Lunch – salle Club

2.30-4 Keynote : Mark Franko (Temple University) : “The Cultural Significance of Dance in Early Modern Europe”
Amphithéâtre Bilsky-Pasquier
Coffee break

4.30-6 2 panels, salle des thèses, salle Marie Curie
Panel 3 – “Never had so sweet a changeling”: Dancing A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Chair : Mattia Mantellato

• Azadeh Mehrpouyan (Velayat University, Iranshahr) : “Contemporary Choreographic Transposition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Atmosphere, Settings, Characters, Action, and Ballet Music And Dance”
• James Hewison (Edge Hill University) : “A Good ‘Night’s’ Out: participatory dancing in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
• Sara Jamina Gardt (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz) : “Dancing through Shakespeare’s plays: The Significance of Dance in The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Panel 4 – “Give room! and foot it, girls!”: Dancing Romeo and Juliet Panel 2
Chair : Julie Vatain-Corfdir

• Henri Garric (Université de Bourgogne)  : ‘La danse paume contre paume du bal des Capulet’
• Max Riviera (University College London) : “‘O, sweet my mother, cast me not away’ – Lady Capulet on the ballet stage”

6.30 Welcome reception, Club Sorbonne (more information on the last page) 9.30-11 2 panels, salle des thèses, salle Marie Curie
Panel 5 – “As a stranger give it welcome”: The function of dance in Shakespeare adaptions
Chair : Tom Allen

• Indrė Višinskaitė & Jadvyga Krūminienė (Vilnius University): “Deconstructive Function of Dance in Grigori Kozintsev’s Cinematic Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet”
• Ioana Petcu (Researcher at Al. I Cuza University of Iași, George Enescu National University of Arts, Iasi): “Un élisabéthain parmi les Est-Européens. Les transpositions du texte shakespearien dans les chorégraphies théâtrales sous le signe de la spécificité culturelle”
• Amy Rodgers (Mount Holyoke College) : “Danced Shakespeare and Revenant History: Alternatives to Understanding the Past”

Panel 6 – “A girdle round about the earth”: Dancing Transnational Shakespeares
Chair : Gaëlle Loisel

• Eva Chou (Baruch College, City University of New York): "A Romeo and Juliet for Hong Kong"
• Patricia Beaman (Wesleyan University): “Tradition, Deviation, and Interculturalism in Yoshihiro Kurita’s Hamlet”
• Julia Bührle (Independent Scholar): “Venice with a touch of Verona: John Neumeier’s Othello”
• Coffee break

11.30-1pm Keynote : Pascale Drouet (Université de Poitiers): “’‘No, to the death, we will not move a foot’: To dance or not to dance with Shakespeare and Branagh”
Amphithéâtre Bilsky-Pasquier
Lunch – salle Club

2.30-4 2 panels, salle des thèses, salle Marie Curie
Panel 7 – “How will this fadge?”: Feminism and the Queering of Shakespeare with dance
Chair : Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau

• Nancy Isenberg (University of Roma Tre): “Enter Lucy: How a bold, Black, female role challenges exclusion on the Shakespeare stage and racism in the US”
• Carlos Pons Guerra (University of Leeds, Independent choreographer): “Queer—Processing Shakespeare: Exploring the Potential of Queer Methodologies for Adaptation of Shakespeare into Dance”

Panel 8 – Corporeal words and literary bodies
Chair : Raghav Verma

• David Maziashvili (Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University) : “Shakespeare’s Words as Music and Movement”
• Sissi Baba (Sorbonne Université) : “Danser Shakespeare : Le passage d’une adaptation dansée à un vrai ballet”
• Coffee break

4.30-6 1 panel, salle des thèses
Panel 9 – “Terrible dreams / that shake us nightly”: Dancing Macbeth
Chair : Aloysia Rousseau

• Julian Yates (University of Delaware) : “Hover”
• Andrew Hiscock (Bangor University): ‘you perform your antique round’: Critical Policing and taking the Measures of Macbeth
• Ilana Gilovich-Wave (Columbia University): ‘Imperfect Speakers’: Speechless Shakespeare in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More