CFP: Rite of Spring (Oxford, 29 May 13)

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From: Mike O'Mahony <[email protected]>
Date: Feb 2, 2013
Subject: CFP: Rite of Spring (Oxford, 29 May 13)

University of Oxford, Kellogg College, May 29, 2013
Deadline: Mar 1, 2013

Revisiting the Rite: The 'Rite of Spring' Centenary Conference

Convenor: Dr Claire O’Mahony
University Lecturer in the History of Art and Design and Fellow of
Kellogg College
http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/claire-i-r-o%E2%80%99mahony
In collaboration with the Transnational Modernisms Research Group at
the University of Bristol

The premiere at the Paris Opéra on 29 May 1913 of The Rite of Spring
Scenes from Pagan Russia arguably constituted the quintessential ‘total
work of art (gesamtkunstwerk)’. This interdisciplinary conference will
examine the cross-fertilizations between music, choreography and design
in the creation of the original performance as well its critical
reception and its legacies in contemporary performance and fashion
design.  Reassessing this watershed moment in the history of
performance, papers are invited which investigate both its continuity
and ruptures with the traditions of music, dance and design as well as
subsequent responses including:

- Locating the Rite as music, ballet, design
- Original and subsequent critical reception of the Rite
- Constructions of Russian and cosmopolitan identities around the Rite
- Modernism and the Rite
- Protagonists in the creation of the Rite, both well documented
(Stravinsky; Diaghilev; Nijinsky; Roerich; etc.) and less celebrated
contributors
- Collaboration within the original and subsequent productions of the
Rite
- The history of productions and adaptations of the Rite
- The impact of the Rite on mass culture (photography; magazine
illustration; fashion; collectibles; etc.)
- The representation of the Rite in other media (literature;
caricature; etc.)
- The legacy of the Rite for subsequent composers; choreographers;
designers; historians
- Marketing, collecting and preserving material vestiges of the Rite
- Centenary productions and concerts of the Rite
- Fictional and documentary films about the Rite

Reflecting the interdisciplinary aims of the conference, proposals are
sought from a wide range of speakers related to dance, music, design
and their histories; Russian and French Studies; etc. from established
scholars; early career researchers; doctoral candidates; practitioners
and performers.

Please send a paper proposal of no more than 300 words to:
[email protected] by Friday 1 March 2013.

Dissemination:
- Podcasts from the conference will be available through
itunes.ox.ac.uk
- Edited volume will be published with Rivendale Press
http://www.rivendalepress.com/index.html

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