The Role Of The Choreographer In The Stage And Screen Musical is a free symposium taking place on 28 November, offered by the Society for Dance Research. The symposium will feature distinguished keynote speeches from Dame Gillian Lynne, acclaimed British dancer, choreographer and theatre/television director, to Professor Millie Taylor of the University of Winchester.
Taking place at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, this special event will provide audiences with an insight into the role and responsibility of a choreographer in productions for both stage and screen. Dame Gillian Lynne’s career, for example, could probably host the symposium alone as it is so varied and rich. The Society for Dance Research is renowned for offering stimulating events, conferences, workshops and publications, and this symposium is no different.
Since 1982 the Society has been working to foster and promote the quality and scope of dance scholarship in the UK and to provide an international forum for diverse dance interests covering a broad range of dance forms and dance-related issues. Through its activities it aims to advance research into all forms of dance and performance internationally, stimulate discussion and exchange through meetings and other activities that support dance research, including practice-led research, and encourage the preservation of archives, collections and important source materials.
The Society for Dance Research’s journal – Dance Research – is published twice yearly. The Society for Dance Research members embrace a wide cross-section of the dance world: scholars, critics, teachers, lecturers, students, librarians, dancers, choreographers, archivists and interested dance-goers. Members come from both the UK and overseas and their interests span all forms of dance and associated disciplines, such as music, theatre, design and literature.
For further information please visit http://www.sdr-uk.org/