Research

Research and notation presentations

30.01.24 — 14:00

CN D Pantin

“Building a nomenclature for English figure dance in the 18th and 19th centuries from the works of Nicholas Dukes, AD and Thomas Wilson”
by Cécile Laye

A study of the stages in the development of English figure dance nomenclature in the 18th and 19th centuries, based on the works of Nicholas Dukes (1752, 1764) and Thomas Wilson (1811, 1820).

"In the footsteps of Isadora Duncan's Slavic March (1917). An internationalist investigation".
by Katharina Van Dyk and Polina Manko

Documentation of a dance forgotten in the historiography of modern Western choreographic art, which the dancer and choreographer performed in Russia until the mid-1920s.

"The postclassical turn. Co-creation of an aesthetic category".
by Laura Cappelle

A reflection on the (now inoperative) categories commonly used to talk about classical dance, inviting us to explore the relevance of the notion "post-classical" to characterize the evolution of its aesthetic lines.