CONF 21.10.2017

The body in 20th-century stage design (Loughborough, 26 Jan 18)

Loughborough University, UK, 26.01.2018
Anmeldeschluss: 19.01.2018

Rachael Grew

Bodily Scenography: The body in 20th-century stage design

Friday 26 January 2018, Loughborough University, UK

This one-day symposium will explore the interplay between stage design and the role and significance of the body. It aims to examine the portrayals and meanings of the body, the ways in which it is performed, and the relationships it builds with other bodies, as crafted through 20th-century scenography, focusing particularly on costume and set design.

To book your place, and find out more information on travel and accommodation, go to www.lboro.ac.uk/aed/bodily-scenography. There is a £25 registration fee, payable through the website, which covers all refreshments and lunch.

Symposium Programme

All sessions take place in Seminar room 1.17, Martin Hall, East Campus.

08:30 – 09:00: Registration

09:00 – 09:15: Welcome

09:15 – 11:15: Panel 1: Bodily relationships: Performers and audiences

Lauren Bird (Queens University, Ontario): Translating theatre designs from the stage to the street: The decorative practice of Leon Bakst

Laura McGuire (University of Hawaii at Manoa): Technologies of embodiment and disembodiment in Frederick Kiesler’s stage settings

Clara Romero Godoy (University of Málaga): The audience as an important element in the stage of Guernica, a play written by Jerónimo López Mozo

Abigail Hammond (Wimbledon College of Arts): Human v life force: Creating costumes for Jasmin Vardimon’s immersive work Maze, Margate Winter Gardens 2015

11:15 – 11:45: Tea and coffee break (Martin Hall)

11:45 – 12:45: Keynote: Dr Joslin McKinny (University of Leeds), Associate Professor of Scenography and Deputy Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Studies: title tbc

12:45 – 1:30: Lunch (Towers Dining Room)

1:30 – 3:00: Panel 2: Bodies in space

Michèle Danjoux (University of the Arts, London): Title tbc (wearable technology in performance)

Wim Goossens (KU Leuven): A case of a choreography of the view: Circulus Maximus

Mary Kate Connolly (Roehampton University): Exploring the hybrid, constructed body in the choreography and design of Lea Anderson’s performance works

3:00 – 3:30: Tea and coffee break (Martin Hall)

3:30 – 5:00: Panel 3: The body as cultural signifier

Nicole Hatzinger and Anna Leon (Universität Salzburg): The body suspended among invisible threads: Pavel Tchelitchew and the Ballet Ruesses’ Ode (1928)

Vivkea Kjellmer (University of Gothenburg): Indra’s daughter and the modernist body

Urs Dierker (York University, Toronto): Every stain a story: The many undershirts of Bruce Willis

5:00 – 5:15: Closing remarks

Quellennachweis:
CONF: The body in 20th-century stage design (Loughborough, 26 Jan 18). In: ArtHist.net, 21.10.2017. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/16554>.

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