Friday Afternoon

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. SESSION 3A (90 min)

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Choreography and Reconstruction (Paper Session)

Ama Aduonum: Urban Bush Women: Three Decades of Choreographing an “African” Aesthetic
David Curwen: Jinsha, A Recipe for Interdisciplinary Work Within the University
Mary Fogarty: Remixing the Concept of “Reconstruction” for Popular Dance Performances

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. SESSION 3B (120 min)

The Music of Le Sacre du printemps: French Impressions (Paper Session)

Michael A. MacKenzie: Stravinsky on the Air: Pierre Boulez’s Canadian Premiere and The Rite of Spring
Wai Ling Cheong: The Rite of Spring: Rhythmic Rebirth as Delivered by Messiaen and Boulez
Dr. Kimberly Francis: Nadia Boulanger’s Interpretation of The Rite of Spring: “A Work Apart”
Vincent P. Benitez: Stravinsky and the End of Musical Time: Messiaen’s Analyis of The Rite of Spring and its Impact on Twentieth-Century Music

3:15 – 3:45 pm. BREAK (30 min)

3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. SESSION 4A (90 min)

Contemporary Explorations of Le Sacre du printemps (Paper Session)

Breandán de Gallaí: Re-Visioning the Rite: An exploration of the expression possibilities of Irish dance
Cynthia J. Williams: Searching in the Darkness: Molissa Fenley’s State of Darkness
Constance Valis Hill: Flowers of Menace: Stephen Petronio’s Radical Postmodernist Reconstruction of Le Sacre du printemps

3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. SESSION 4B (60 min)

NoBody dance/The Rite of Spring (Workshop/Film)

Martine Époque & Denis Poulin: a 3D digital dance film based on MoCap and particle technologies

3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. SESSION 4C (90 min)

Experiencing Dalcroze, Past and Present (Paper and Workshop)
Paper Session (30 min)

Monica Fagundes Dantas & Janice Zarpellon Mazo: The Influence of the Dalcroze Method at the Instituto de Cultura Fisica in Porto Alegre, Brazil (1928 – 1937) 

Session participants will then be guided to a studio for
Dalcroze Workshop (60 min)

Monica Dale: Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Experiencing an Aesthetic

5:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. DINNER BREAK (on your own)

7:30 p.m. Rite Redux performance