CONF: The Rite of Spring and its Legacies: Global and Regional Perspectives

[Alex Rudd]

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The Rite of Spring and its Legacies: Global and Regional Perspectives
A Symposium and Recital
Sears Recital Hall, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Sunday, 22 September 2013, 2:00pm-5:30pm

This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together leading scholars
in the field: Dr. Lynn Garafola, professor of dance at Barnard
College, author of the award-winning Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and
editor of The Ballets Russes and Its World; Dr. Mary E. Davis, Dean of
Studies of the Fashion Institute of Technology and author of Ballets
Russes Style: Diaghilev’s Dancers and Paris Fashion and Classic Chic:
Music, Fashion and Modernism; and art historian and Russian literature
scholar, Dr. Nina Gourianova, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages
and Literature at Northwestern University and author of The Aesthetics
of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde. Joining
them will be musicologist and dance historian, Dr. Samuel Dorf,
Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton and organizer of the
symposium who will share his research on the Ballets Russes
performances in Dayton and Cincinnati during their 1916 and 1917
American tours. These engaging presentations will include a dynamic
solo piano performance of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring by
acclaimed pianist Dr. Ingrid Keller, Assistant Professor of Music at
Northern Kentucky University.

This event will be documented by our media partner, Classical WDPR
88.1, and is made possible in part by the Ohio Humanities Council, a
state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Admission is free, but tickets are required and can be reserved
through the UD Box Office beginning September 1.

This event is part of the University of Dayton’s "Rites. Rights.
Writes." experience in human rights and the arts.

http://www.udayton.edu/artssciences/artsseries/event_1.php

-- 
Samuel N. Dorf, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Music
University of Dayton
300 College Park
Dayton, Ohio 45469-2946
Phone: 937.229.3986

http://www.udayton.edu/artssciences/artsseries/event_1.php
http://www.udayton.edu/artssciences/graul_chair/rrw/events/0922_rite_of_spring_legacies.php

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