Dancing Lives

When:
July 8, 2017 all-day
2017-07-08T00:00:00+01:00
2017-07-09T00:00:00+01:00
Where:
Wolfson College
Linton Rd
Oxford OX2 6UL
UK
Cost:
£20 (£10 unwaged)
Contact:
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

How do people write about the lives of dancers and choreographers? How does dance as a silent form represent life stories? Featuring biographers and practitioners, with papers and discussions on the relationship between dance and life-writing.

Featuring Dame Monica Mason (former director of The Royal Ballet) and Jennifer Homans (founder and director of The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University). With contributions from: Michael Burden, Julia Bührle, Jennifer Homans, Judith Mackrell, Michael Huxley, Ramsay Burt, and Hélène Neveu Kringelbach. Concluding with a performance by Simone Damberg Würtz & Liam Francis from the Rambert Contemporary Dance Company.

Limited B&B places available in Wolfson College. Visit https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/gallery/bed-and-breakfast and use code DANCE17