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Sound Moves

An International Conference on Music and Dance
Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 November 2005
Roehampton University, London

What do choreographers look for in music and composers in choreography?
And how do dancers embody sound and musicians reflect movement in their
performances? What kinds of choreomusical relationships exist and how do
we talk about them? How similar or different are physical and acoustic
gestures?  The media collaboration of music and dance is one of the
longest established and most frequently discussed, but nonetheless one of
the least rigorously explored.  Now, strong signals from both scholars and
the profession prompt us to generate new thinking about music and dance
and to encourage sharing the languages of the two disciplines.  
Roehampton's Centre for Dance Research, the internationally recognised
centre for choreomusical studies, and Princeton University's Music
Department, with its celebrated record for interdisciplinary research,
have joined forces to take this project forward in collaboration with
Britain's Society for Dance Research.  The overwhelming response to
initial conference announcements has underlined the vital importance and
currency of such an event.

The Sound Moves conference will involve dance and music historians and
theorists, choreographers and composers, professional dancers and
musicians, teachers and students.  It will comprise performance,
lecture-demonstrations and papers on a wide range of topics - historical
representations from Renaissance to present day, popular culture and high
art forms, ballet and contemporary dance, interactive settings,
performance training and cultural hybrids.  It will also introduce a
number of interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives - such as structural
analysis, gestural relationships, intertextual and gender explorations, as
well as the notion of viewing work as meta-discourse on dance and music.

Special Events include:

*	Keynote Speakers:
*	Daniel Albright, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard
	University -- the distinguished interdisciplinarian reflects on
	opera and 'the idolatry of dance'
*	Marian Smith, Associate Professor, University of Oregon -- the
	leading scholar of 19th century ballet and music surveys
	choreomusical research and methodologies with reference to her
	current work
*	The Richard Alston Dance Company -- the internationally celebrated
	choreographer and company present a lecture-demonstration and
	performance with live music
*	Shobana Jeyasingh and Michael Nyman -- the well-known
	composer-choreographer duo in interview about their recent
	collaboration 'Flicker', with practical demonstration
*	Les Noces, the Stravinsky/Nijinska collaboration -- demonstration
	by Royal Ballet dancers, with commentary by Monica Mason, Artistic
	Director of The Royal Ballet and the rehearsal director
	Christopher Newton, and papers by Russian scholars, musicologist
	Professor Margarita Mazo and dance historian Maria Ratanova
*	Prokofiev's Le Pas d'Acier -- presentation by Lesley-Anne Sayers
	on Diaghilev's constructivist ballet recreated with Millicent
	Hodson at Princeton in April, 2005 

Programme subject to change

Conference Programme


Saturday 5 November			
08.15 		Registration						 
09.15		Introduction 
09.30-17.30	Conference			
17.30-19.00	Buffet dinner			
19.15		Alston Dance Company				

Sunday 6 November
09.30-17.45	Conference
18.00		Chester Music Reception


The conference is non-residential.  It will be held at Froebel College,
Roehampton University, Roehampton Lane, London, SW15 5PJ.  Limited car
parking space is available both inside and outside the College.  The
conference will be conducted in English.

Please note that there are no pubs, restaurants, coffee facilities close
enough to the conference venue for use during the conference programme.  
However, delegates are welcome to bring their own refreshments if they
wish.


Practical workshop

How do dance teachers and musicians communicate in order to convey
movement ideas effectively and support them with sound?  Roehampton
lecturer Erica Stanton will lead a workshop during the conference
exploring the dialogue that occurs during a dance technique class.  The
workshop will examine ideas evolving from rhythm and melody within
Limón-based technique.  Participants should wear loose comfortable
clothing and should have some experience of movement and/or dance
accompaniment.  The session will last 1½ hours and reservation of a place
is essential.


Additional Event

Ashton to Stravinsky: A Study of Four Ballets, presentation of the new DVD
by Stephanie Jordan and Geraldine Morris, featuring Scènes de ballet,
Persephone, Le Baiser de la fée and Le Rossignol, danced by members of The
Royal Ballet, and focusing on movement style, structure and musicality.  
The showing will take place on Friday 4 November at 7.30pm in Michaelis
Theatre.


How to Book

For a registration form, please contact:

Noreen Markwell
Conference Administrator
Roehampton University
Southlands College
80 Roehampton Lane, London, SW15 5SL
Tel:		020 8392 3432
Fax:		020 8392 3435
E-Mail:	[log in to unmask]

Registration confirmation and programme details will be sent out to all
participants in mid-October.

Where to Stay

Although the conference is non-residential, there are local hotels and
guest houses.  For further information, please contact the Conference
Administrator, Noreen Markwell or see www.roehampton.ac.uk/soundmoves

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the following sponsors for their generous help towards
this conference:-

The Radcliffe Trust
The Society for Dance Research
The British Academy
Chester Music
Princeton University
Roehampton University