Call for Contributions Italy and the Dance

Call for Contributions

Italy and the Dance Dance in Italy, Italian Dance in Europe 1400 - 1900, for Barbara Sparti (1932 - 2013)

25 - 29 May 2016 Burg Rothenfels am Main, Germany

With our next symposium we would like to honour Barbara Sparti, one of the leading dance researchers of the 20 th century, who died in 2013. In keeping with the central emphasis of her research activities, the highly diverse dance culture of Italy - from the final phase of the Middle Ages to the time of the Risorgimento - is to be the main theme of the symposium. One central thematic area is to be the dance styles and forms which evolved in different regional, cultural and institutional contexts in Italy, their historical and stylistic development, their dissemination in Europe, their influence on other national dance styles, and their role (as style, as form, as cultural practice) in transmitting Italian culture in Europe. We likewise wish to examine the influences which emanated from other dance cultures (e.g. France) and left corresponding traces in Italy. In this context, light is also to be shed on the artists who had a decisive share in this: Italian dancers, dancing masters, choreographers and teachers who worked in Euro- pean palaces and major cities, spread Italian dance art in Europe and, conversely, absorbed a diversity of influences. A further focus of the symposium will be on the Italian contribution to the development of theatrical dance in Europe. Here we wish to concentrate on the characteris- tics of the Italian style and its distinguishing features vis-à-vis other “national” styles, but not neglecting the relationships between theatrical dance and theatre, especially Italian opera and also the influence of the Commedia dell’arte (e.g. with reference to the use of acrobatics and pantomime) on theatrical dance. +++ What influence did the French Bassedanse have on Italian dance style? +++ How widespread were Italian dances in Germany around 1500? +++ How successful were Italian dancing masters in spreading their dance culture in Europe in the 16 th century? +++ What effect did Italian dance style have on the French Ballets de cour? +++ What is considered as “typically Italian” in dance theory discourses? +++ What insights into Italian dance culture are provided by iconography? +++ What significance did dance have in Italian opera? +++ What role was played by Italian dancers and choreographers in European theatres? +++ To what extent were wandering troupes involved in dance culture transfer in Europe? +++ How strongly did “foreign” styles influence Italian dance culture in the 18 th and 19 th centuries? +++ What traces of the original were left in the Baroque Forlana or Monfrina in European ballrooms? +++ What role was played by Italian folk dance in European theatrical art? +++ How did political movements such as the "Risorgi- mento" influence Italian dance culture? +++ In addition to furthering the scholarly discussion, it is a particular goal of the symposium to present to interested dancers and dance enthusiasts the state of dance research today. The symposium will offer a wide range of activities from lectures, workshops, demonstrations, a book and music exhibition to evening dancing and a festive ball with live music. Contributions not yet presented on the topics listed above are welcome. A publication is planned and will be available at the symposium. Contribution categories: Our homepage: Lectures: Length: 25 - 30 min, followed by ca. 10 min discussion. www.historical-dance-symposium.org The lectures can also include short dance demonstrations. A publication of the papers is planned and will already be available at the symposium. Honorarium: 200.- Euro Our cooperation partners: Research results poster: max. 60 x 80 cm Our new exhibition of posters also enables a concise presentation of research results. The poster area specified above allows you to present, explain and discuss your research in text and illustration.

Honorarium: 50.- Euro Association pour un Centre de Recherche sur les Arts du Spectacle Workshops: Length: max. 90 min aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles Thematic coupling with a lecture is possible. Because they are carried out in groups of ca. (Villereau, France) 20 - 40 people, each workshop is held three times. Working materials for the participants www.acras17-18.org should be prepared in advance. Honorarium: 200.- Euro Derra de Moroda Dance Archives (Salzburg University, Austria) Short performances: Length: 15 - 30 min www.ddmarchiv.org This category enables you to present your artistic conceptions to a specialist audience. If possible, please send us a demonstration video. AIRDanza Honorarium: Exemption from the conference fee (ca. 220.- Euro) for all performers. Associazione Italiana per la Conducting evening dance classes: Length: 90 - 120 min Ricerca della th th A program of relatively simple, easily learned social dances from the 15 to the 19 Danza century. Each class will be offered twice, with half the conference participants attending (Rome, Italy) each time. A live music group will be available for one of the classes; recordings must be www.airdanza.it used for the second class. The dances taught in these classes will serve as the basis for the final ball program. The Annual Oxford Dance Symposium Honorarium: 200.- Euro (New College, Oxford, Great Britain)

www.new.ox.ac.uk/annual-oxford- Payments and expenses: dance-symposium Speakers and participants in the short performances are exempted from the conference fee. Unfortunately it is not possible, besides the honorarium mentioned in each case above, to grant any further allowances on costs of accommodation or travel.

Conference language: www.earlydancecircle.co.uk Presentations and workshops may be held in either German or English.

Deadline for proposals: 1 June 2015 Please submit a short summary (max. 1 page) of the planned contribution by 1 June 2015 www.eadh.com to Markus Lehner by mail, fax, or e-mail (see the column on the right). The program committee will make its selection by 1 August 2015 . Further information on the dance

conference readily available from:

Program committee: Markus Lehner Prof. Carol G. Marsh (musicologist, editor of "Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV") Mühlfelder Str. 18b Prof. Alessandro Pontremoli (professor of dance history and dramatics at the University of D-82211 Herrsching Torino, numerous publications in the field of historical dance) Tel. 0049-(0)8152-5248 Dr. Irene Brandenburg (musicologist and dance scholar, director of the "Derra de Moroda Fax. 08152-981509 Dance Archives", University of Salzburg) Email: [email protected] Prof. Véronique Daniels (teacher at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis: historical dance & Uwe Schlottermüller notation, director of RenaiDanse) Schillerstr. 6, D-79102 Freiburg Markus Lehner (author of "A manual of sixteenth-century Italian dance steps") Tel. 0049-(0)761-72990 Email: [email protected] Organisation: Markus Lehner, Uwe Schlottermüller

For questions about the conference Conference site: site, please contact: For decades, Rothenfels castle has served as a conference center, welcoming historical dance events in particular, and is therefore well known to many dancers and dance Verwaltung Burg Rothenfels 97851 Rothenfels groups. Since the 1 st Rothenfels Dance Symposium took place there in 2004, it has been th Tel. 0049-(0)9393-99999 its host. The oldest part of the castle, dating from the 12 century, provides a lovely Fax. 09393-99995 atmospheric setting. The castle is situated directly on the river Main between Würzburg Email: [email protected] and Frankfurt, 7 km north of Marktheidenfeld.