9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.  SESSION 1A (90 min)

Ritual and Religion in Le Sacre du printemps (Paper Session)

Samuel N. Dorf: Eva Palmer Dances Aeschylus: The Politics of Historical Reenactment When Staging the Rites of the Past
Miriana Lausic: Violence, Beauty, and Dasein in Le Sacre du printemps
Priya Thomas: Performing Modern Religion: Esotericism and Le Sacre du printemps, (1913)

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. SESSION 1B (90 min)

Forum on Teaching Approaches for Sacre and other collaborative works

Balinda Craig-Quijada: Interdisciplinarity in the Liberal Arts: a model for creative collaborative teaching
Selma Landen Odom & Erin McCurdy: Encountering Sacre through Role-play

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. BREAK (30 min)

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. SESSION 2A (90 min)

 Dance and Audience in the Age of the Ballets Russes (Paper Session)

Sarah Gutsche-Miller: French Ballet in the Age of the Ballets Russes
Alixandra Haywood: Orchestrated “a la diable” but danced by “des anges”: the Parisian reception of Les Sylphides (1909)
Joannie Ing: The Rite of Spring: Celebrating One of the Most Infamous Riots of the 20th Century

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. SESSION 2B (90 min)

Dalcroze Workshop

Gregory Ristow: A Eurhythmics Pathway to The Rite of Spring

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. LUNCH (60 min)