Unfolding Gesture: Movement, Inscription, Music

Saturday 10h July

11.00am Alastair Macaulay: Opening Guest Lecture Writing into Dancing. Alastair will explore issues arising from notation, choreographers’ preparatory notes for , and show examples of literature promoting .

12.15pm Gabriela Minden (Oxford): Rupert Doone's Choreographic Didascalia and Censorship of the 1930s British Stage. Gabriela is presenting on the relationship between theatre censorship and Rupert Doone's choreography - for his & W.H. Auden's Dance of Death (indicated only by stage directions and sketches that the censor never sees).

2 4.00pm Workshop Part I with Joseph Kay, Eric Clarke, Bruno Guastalla, Thomasin Gülgeç: Exploring Beauchamp/Feuillet Notation as Compositional Potential for Music and Dance (audience welcome/discussion) Musicians and dancers reflect on the ways in which written inscription/notation of music/dance may relate to one another and may prompt musical/choreographic composition.

Sunday 11th July

10.30am Jennifer Johnson (Oxford, History of Art): Marks in the Sand. Jennifer explores the material and movement of inscriptions that prompt creation in the visual arts.

11.45pm Megan Smith: It might seem a strange way to perform Shakespeare: negotiating character interiority and gestural expression in Shakespearean . Megan will talk about gestures in Shakespeare and their signalling of a character's interiority and consciousness.

2-4.00pm: Workshop Part II: Open Rehearsal with Joseph Kay, Estela Merlos, Thomasin Gülgeç Following from Workshop I’s discussions, Joseph, Estela, Thomasin develop a new piece of music/choreography.

Monday 12th July

10.30am: Lucia Camacho Acevedo (Royal Holloway): Agon: another musical/choreographic analysis Lucia will discuss “” and the relations of music/choreography in Balanchine’s Agon.

11.45am: Marcus Bell (Oxford): Dimitris Papaioannou.

Marcus explore the work of choreographer Papaioannou, whose art integrates inscription and movement in innovative formations.

2.00pm: Recorded lecture: Anna Chamberlain: Hilde Holger, Ausdruckstanz, Photography. Anna discusses the close relationship of photography and the moving body in the work of Holger’s Expressionist dance.

2.45pm: Workshop Part III: Sharing. Joseph Kay, and dancers Estela Merlos, Thomasin Gülgeç A sharing of the piece made during the last two Workshops.

Followed by Discussion