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Conference: Reading Dance Images
Program Schedule



Wednesday 11 February
The American Academy in Rome - Lecture Room

Wednesday Morning
9:15 AM-12:45 PM
9:15 Welcome and Introduction
Ingrid D. Rowland, American Academy in Rome
Barbara Sparti, dance historian, Rome
Session #1 East and West. Crossing Continents in Dance Images
Chair: Christina Huemer, American Academy in Rome
9:30

Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Smithsonian Institution (Bio)
The Hands tell the Story: Depictions of Polynesian Dance from Parkinson to Photography, with a Diversion into 19th Century Paintings by John Singer Sargent
10:15 Judy Van Zile, University of Hawaii (Bio)
Issues in Interpreting the Diverse Visual Representations of Korean Dance
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30 Claudia Cieri Via, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Bio)
Old and New Rituals in Europe and America as seen by Aby Warburg
12:15-12:45 Discussion
1:00-2:30 Lunch
Wednesday Afternoon
2:45-6:30 PM
Session #2

Metaphor in Dance Images
Chair: Marianne Bröcker, University of Bamberg
2:45 Placida Staro, ethnochoreologist and musicologist, Monghidoro (Bologna) (Bio)
Dance as a metaphor in Italian representations: raffigurazioni as opposed to rappresentazioni in images of dance
3:30 Laszlo Felfoldi, Institute of Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Bio)
Commonplaces and Clichés in 19th-century Hungarian Icons
4:15-4:30 Break
Session #3 Dance as Peace and Harmony
Chair: Livio Pestilli, Trinity College, Rome
4:30 Alessandra Uguccioni, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Bio)
Dance as an Attribute of Love, Harmony and Festive Events Through the Centuries
5:15 Barbara Sparti, dance historian, Rome (Bio)
Who are the dancers in Lorenzetti's 'Buon Governo'?
6:00-6:30 Discussion
Chair: Adrienne Kaeppler

Thursday 12 February
The American Academy in Rome - Lecture Room

Thursday Morning
9:15 AM-12:45 PM
Session #4

The Painter and the Image
Chair: Dana Prescott, American Academy in Rome
9:15 Irene Loutzaki, University of Athens, Greece (Bio)
A visual play between myth and history. The folk painter Theophilos Chatzimichael (1873-1934)
10:00

Nancy G. Heller, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia (Bio)
When is a Circle Dance Simply a Circle of Dancers? Spanish Dance and Matisse's 'The Dance', with Some Notes on Sargent's 'El Jaleo'
10:45-11:15 Break
Session #5 Dance Portrayed Not Only in Paintings
Chair: Ingrid D. Rowland, American Academy in Rome
11:15

Elsie Ivancich Dunin, University of California at Los Angeles, and Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb (Bio)
Dance motifs on tombstones in the Dubrovnik area
12:00 Richard T. Neer, University of Chicago and American Academy in Rome (FAAR '03-4) (Bio)
Dancers and metaphor in Greek art of the 5th century BCE
1:00-3:00 Lunch
Thursday Afternoon
3:30-6:30 PM
3:30-5:00

Roundtable Discussion of all presenters
Chair: Judy Van Zile, University of Hawaii
5:30-6:30

Reception


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