Saturday Afternoon

12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. SESSION 7 (60 min)

Two Piano Performance of Le Sacre du printemps

Christian Matijas Mecca & Ilya Blinov: Lost Ballets and Concert Dance Music: A Revisited Hearing of Le Sacre du printemps

1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. SESSION 8A (90 min)

Considering Chouinard’s Rite of Spring (Organized Panel)

Panel Moderator: Kate Cornell
Participants: Natalie Rewa, Hilary Bryan & Lucy M. May

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. SESSION 8B (60 min)

Motion and Gesture in Le Sacre du printemps (Paper Session)

Amy Gajadhar: Kinaesthetic Origins of the Music from The Rite of Spring
Alexander Schwan: Disruption in Continuity. The Use of Ornament in The Rite of Spring

3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. BREAK (30 min)

3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. SESSION 9A (90 min)

Revisioning Le Sacre du printemps (Paper Session)

Neil Baldwin: Defining Modern Dance: Martha Graham and The Rite of Spring in America
Mariama Diagne: Killing softly: Traces of subtly but radical violence in Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du printemps
Angela Kane: Re-assessing Paul Taylor’s Le Sacre du printemps (The Rehearsal)

3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. SESSION 9B (90 min)

The Ancient Rite: Perspectives on Primitivism (Paper Session)

Adalyat Issiyeva: The Origin of Russian Primitivism? Alexander Grechaninov’s Arrangements of Asian Songs
Chantal Frankenbach: Adorno, T. Rex, and Le Sacre du printemps: Readings of Primitive Biologism in the Dancing Collective
Samantha Mehra: Two Works, Two Eras: Primitivist Themes in Le Sacre du printemps and Kinjiki