All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney (near St Albans)
Saturday and Sunday, 10-11 March 2007
The conference explored the essential dance of the 18th century, as a solo and a duet, from the 1700s to the 1900s, from the ballroom to the stage and even the silver screen. As well as listening to papers, participants experienced the variety of the minuet in several workshops.
Papers
- Teresa Buckland - Keynote Lecture - The world we have lost: minuets and the past in late Victorian culture
- Moira Goff - Seductive Decorum: the Solo Minuet for a Girl (Workshop)
- Grainne McArdle - The Minuet in Early Eighteenth-Century Dublin Society
- Giles Bennett - The Minuet in 18th-Century Dance Treatises (Workshop)
- Elizabeth Aldrich - Drooping Elbows and Stately Grace: "Movie Minuets" of the 1930s
- Jennifer Thorp - Spelling it out: Le Roussau's The Montaigu, 1720
- Kimiko Okamoto - Changing Relationships between Dance and Music in the Eighteenth-Century Minuet
- Jeffrey Scott Longstaff, Darren Royston, Andrea Treu - Rudolf Laban's Minuet in Choreographie, 1926 (Workshop)
- Jørgen Schou-Pedersen - Minuet from Elverhöi, 1828 (Workshop)
The conference proceedings have been published by DHDS, see the publications page.
The papers by Teresa Buckland and Elizabeth Aldrich do not appear in the proceedings.