DANSOX Roundtable: Choreographing Kafka with Arthur Pita, Edward Watson, Lucia Ruprecht, Meindert Peters at Jacqueline du Pré Building, 22nd February 2024

As part of Oxford’s ‘Kafka’s Transformative Communities’ Project, choreographer Arthur Pita and dancer Edward Watson will discuss their work on a new choreography of Franz Kafka’s short story A Hunger Artist as well as their previous work on Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. They will be in conversation with Lucia Ruprecht (Freie Universität Berlin) and Meindert Peters (Oxford University).

This fascinating opportunity to hear major artists talking about their work with leading academics is hosted by Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX), and is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), The Cultural Programme, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), and the New College Ludwig Fund.

Date: Thursday 22nd February, 4.00-5.00pm

Venue:  Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Cowley Place, Oxford OX4 1DY

Tickets: Free, all are welcome; book online here

For further information/inquiries: www.kafka-research.ox.ac.uk or email kafka@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.

 

DANSOX Events October-November 2023

Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX) presents a season of exciting events for the Michaelmas term of 2023, spanning three major themes:

1. Revisiting 20C dance: Yolande Yorke-Edgell and Yorke Dance season 

2. Celebrating the centenary of Les Noces (Stravinsky/Nijinska).   

3. Symposium: New Research in Dance Studies and Practice 

See below for a list of dates:

10^th October 5.30pm, Jacqueline du Pré Building:  ‘Serial Stravinsky Dances: Choreomusical Discoveries with Balanchine’: Professor Stephanie Jordan (Roehampton) will deliver a talk prompted by her 2010 film project with artists from the New York City Ballet: Music Dances: Balanchine Choreographs Stravinsky, now showing this work as work in progress.  Come along and experience Stephanie’s unique approach, and there will be lots to see and hear from this outstanding artistic team of the 20^th century.

16^th October 5.30pm, Jacqueline du Pré Building: New Movement Collective with Gosia Dzierzon Presentation: A new Les Noces.

19^th October 5.30pm Jacqueline du Pré Building. Yolande Yorke-Edgell and Yorke Dance Screening of new film reconstruction of MacMillan’s Sea of Troubles with Q&A.

21^st October 6.45-7.15pm The Olivier Hall, St Edward’s School,  ‘Dancing Song’, German choreographer Andreas Heise in conversation with Meindert Peters about the genesis of his Winterreise concept, pre-performance talk for Oxford Lieder Festival

24^th October 5.30pm Jacqueline du Pré Building: Dame Monica Mason introduces Avatâra Ayuso, of AVA Dance Company on Nijinska (première in 2023 Santiago, Chile).

26^th October, JduP: Yolande Yorke and dancers of Yorke Dance with John Pennington (Pomona College, LA) on Bella Lewitsky, the American modern dance choreographer and dancer.

20th-21st November 2-day Symposium DANSOX at Jacqueline du Pré Building with Professor Philip Bullock, New Directions in Dance Research: Scholarship and Practice 

20^th November, 2pm: Yolande Yorke and Yorke Dance, work by and inspired by Graham, Cohan and others.    

5.30pm: Professor Mark Franko (Temple University) guest lecture ‘“A Subtle System of Feints”: Phenomenological Description and Theatricality in Foucault’s “Las Meninas.“‘

21^st November. Full day includes:

Keynote Lecture: Sir Alistair Spalding (Director Sadler’s Wells) 

Choreographic Practice and Innovation: Liam Francis and dancers 

Guest lectures by Lucia Ruprecht (Berlin); Alexandra Kolb (Roehampton), and Professor Felicia McCarren (Tulane; Leverhulme Visiting Fellow, Oxford). 

27th November, Jacqueline du Pré Building, 5.30pm. New Movement Collective with Gosia Dzierzon present a new Les Noces.

To book, visit the new DANSOX website here for further details, and Eventbrite links for each event, or the DANSOX Eventbrite page here.

You can also contact Ruth Thrush at ruththrush1@gmail.com with booking queries or Professor Susan Jones at susan.jones@ell.ox.ac.uk

 

DANSOX Day of Dance: Transnational Conversations, Jacqueline du Pré Music Building and Rooftop Suite, St Hilda’s College, Oxford, 10th June 2022 – Maggie Watson reports

DANSOX conferences at St Hilda’s College, Oxford are now a regular landmark in the UK dance research year.  DANSOX works in association with TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) and constitutes Oxford’s interface between dance practice and dance research; a space to investigate the ways in which practice constitutes research and, conversely, where research becomes practice.  Although Oxford University has neither a dance department nor dance studio, DANSOX plays a vital role at a time when other UK institutions and centres of academic excellence in dance and their collections are under threat.

The DANSOX 2022 Day of Dance: Transnational Conversations symposium was a collaboration with TORCH Humanities and Cultural Programme and the Network Britain and the Soviet Union: Cultural Encounters; the day interrogated the ways in which dance communicates across borders, cultures and generations through written records, images, recordings and bodily memory.  Open to all, and attended by an array of distinguished scholars, writers, and practitioners from major dance institutions, the day included performances, workshops, lectures, and experimental applications of virtual reality (VR) to performance.

 

DANSOX and TORCH Humanities and Cultural Programme present Day of Dance: Transnational Conversations, Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Friday 10th June 2022

Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX) and TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities) collaborate to present Day of Dance: Transnational Conversations, a rich mix of dance practice, research and discussion involving leading dance artists and distinguished scholars, and centring on Bronislava Nijinska‘s seminal work Les Noces.

Programme:

10.00am-12.00pm Welcome and Liam Francis choreography session – making new work.

1.15-2.00pm Keynote: Jane Pritchard on Nijinska’s Les Noces

Throughout the day from 1.00pm- 6.00pm, those attending can drop in on a showing of Future Rites by Alexander Whitley Dance Company in the Rooftop Suite

2.05-2.50pm Deirdre Chapman leads dancers in a demonstration and workshop of choreography from Les Noces

3.00-3.30pm Marcus Bell presentation Rites of Spring

3.30-4.00pm Meindert Peters presentation Kafka and Arthur Pita

4.00-4.30pm Hélène Neveu Kringelbach presentation Avant-garde dance in Senegal

5.00-6.00pm Book launch of Lynn Garafola‘s biography La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern with Judith Mackrell

6.10-7.15pm Keynote: Alexander Whitley on Future Rites? with dancers, followed by discussion

7.15pm Reception

Date: Friday 10th June 10.00am-7.45pm

Venue: Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Cowley Place, OX4 1DY

Tickets: Free of charge; to register for the event please use this link.

If you would like to watch the livestream of the day please use this link.

For further info please contact susan.jones@ell.ox.ac.uk & marcus.bell@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk

Finally, if you would like to attend the inaugural meeting of TORCH Network
Britain and the Soviet Union: Cultural Encounters you can sign up for a group discussion led by Gabriela Minden – on the London performances of Les Noces by Ballets Russes in June 1926, a month after the General Strike – by following this link.