AMSGNY Announcements

BETWEEN NEOCLASSICISM AND SURREALISM:
DIAGHILEV’S BALLETS RUSSES
AND THE RUSSIAN-FRENCH CONNECTION, 1900s-1920s.
April 23-25, 2009
523 Butler Library, Columbia University
Thursday, April 23
2:30-5. L’APRÈS-MIDI D’UN FAUNE:
Chair: Walter Frisch (Columbia University)
Davinia Caddy (Oxford Brookes University). “Music-Choreographic Relations: A New Realm of Possibility”
Kirsten Lodge (Columbia University). “Decadence and Primitivism in The Afternoon of a Faun: Poem, Prelude, and Performance”
Hanna Järvinen (Theatre Academy, Helsinki). “Tableau Chorégraphique: Affective Stillness in L'après-midi d'un Faune”
5:30-7:30. CROSSING A WATERSHED: THE BALLES RUSSES AFTER THE
WAR:
Chair: Richard Wortman (Columbia University)
Irina Klyagin (Harvard Theater Collection). “‘I Need a Venus’: On Feminine and
Masculine in Early Ballets Russes Productions.”
Maureen Gupta (Princeton University). “Musical Changes to The Sleeping Princess (1921).”
Tatiana Smoliarova (Columbia University). “Genre and Occasion: Revisiting
Diaghilev's Ode (1928).”
Boris Gasparov (Columbia University). “Diaghilev and His Sons.”
Friday, April 24
10-12 STYLISTIC MIXTURES AND INTERSECTIONS
Chair: Elizabeth Kendall (The New School, New York)
Simon Morrison (Princeton University). “The Ballets Suédois, the Ballets Russes, and Historiography.”
Beth Genné (University of Michigan). “ ‘It's All in Apollo:’ Balanchine and his Stable of Steps.”
Mary Davis (Case Western University). “The Next-to-Last Dance: Revisiting Le Bal.”
2-4 ON THE MARGINS OF THE BALLETS RUSSES
Chair: Michael Wachtel (Princeton University)
Anna Kisselgoff (The New York Times). “Andre Levinson: Diaghilev's Critic.”
Caryl Emerson (Princeton University). “Between Naturalism and Biomechanics: Ballet as an Ideal for the Dancing-Acting Body in Tairov's Moscow Chamber
Theater.”
Yuri Tsivian (The University of Chicago) / Daria Khitrova (Freie Universität
Berlin). “MotDynamo:Valentin Parnakh's Poetry and Dance.”
4:30-6:30 LETTRES DANSANTES
Chair: Margo Jefferson (Columbia University)
Lynn Garafola (Columbia University). “Revolutionist in Word, or Diaghilev Talks to the Press.”
Catharine Nepomnyashchy (Columbia University). “From Le parade to Romeo and Juliet: Ballets Russes’ Encounters with Surrealism.”
Edward Kasinec (New York Public Library). “Diaghilev’s Last Passion: The Book.”
6:30 Reception: Bakhmeteff Archive, Butler Library 6th floor East
Saturday, April 25
10-12 LES NOCES:
Chair: Karen Henson (Columbia University)
Margarita Mazo (Ohio State University). “Stravinsky Performing the Self, Les Noces' Shifting Conceptualization, and the Parisian Artistic Landscape.”
Jane Sharp (Rutgers University). “Design and Ornament in Goncharova's décors for Diaghilev”
Susan Jones (St. Hilda’s College, Oxford). “Les Noces and British literary contexts.”
1:30-3:30 ROUND-TABLE: Classicism, primitivism, surrealism: intersections and cross-pollinations.
Moderators: Lynn Garafola, Boris Gasparov
Davinia Caddy (Oxford Brookes University)
Nina Gourianova (Northwestern University
Cordula Grewe (Columbia University)
John Malmstad (Harvard University)
Andrew Wachtel (Northwestern University)