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Call for Papers:


Plays, Places and Participants
– light opera, dance and theatre around 1800


Trondheim, 4th – 6th November 2013



Around the turn of the 19th century, dance, music and theatre as performing 
arts were going through major changes with regards to repertoire, venues 
and agents. Genres shifted from baroque patterns and classicistic ideals to 
romantic and new popular forms; performance sites moved from the town hall, 
via private parlours and stately homes, to public assembly rooms and 
purpose- built theatres; practitioners ranged from self-fashioning 
dilettantes united by social acquaintance or organized societies, to 
professional performers and managers. As artistic forms and venues changed, 
so did the performing arts’ aesthetic and social functions.

This conference aims to focus on the repertoires, venues and agents that 
were part of the development of the performing arts in the decades between 
1770 and 1850. An important aspect of the conference will be how the genres 
and styles within the various art forms underwent a transition from baroque 
to romantic ideals: from aristocratic, representative forms towards an art 
that reflected enlightenment ideals and a new self- understanding among the 
bourgeois participants.

Performing arts are actual events in time and space – and therefore 
inextricably linked to the physical venues and locales where performances 
took place. These were the places where people assembled to dance, act, 
play and sing; to present and represent; to practice and participate in the 
making of art and the making of society. The conference theme Plays, Places 
and Participants, is therefore an invitation to contributors to address:


•    Genres and styles; scripts, scores and notations
•    Performance spaces and technologies
•    Artistic and social conventions and practices, where questions of 
gender constitute a significant research perspective

Trondheim, 4th – 6th November
Venue: Suhmhuset
Erling Skakkes gt 47
7012 Trondheim
Norway

Performing arts between dilettantism and professionalism. Music, theatre 
and dance in the Norwegian public sphere 1770–1850 (pArts) is a 
multi-disciplinary research project supported by the Norwegian Research
Council and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the Faculty 
of Humanities.
For more information about the project, see:
www.ntnu.no/parts/prosjekt


Plays, Places and Participants is the second in a series of three 
conferences arranged by pArts in the period 2012-2015. For more information 
regarding this conference, as
well as on the three keynote speakers, please check the following site 
where any changes and updates will be made available at the earliest 
convenience: 
www.ntnu.no/parts/arrangementer


Deadline for paper proposals:
Proposals for papers should be submitted by
1st of July 2013, including a max. 300 word abstract of the proposed paper, 
your name,
affiliation and e-mail address. Proposals and enquiries should be submitted 
to [log in to unmask] Notice of acceptance will be given by the 1st of 
September 2013. The conference language is English.


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