| Description | This file contains papers presented at the First Conference of British Dance Scholars, held at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, London, in April 1982.
Includes the following:
- Photocopy of a press release advertising the conference, March 1982; photocopy made c1982. Along with a photocopy of a leaflet about the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, c1982; photocopy made c1982.
- Two programmes for the conference: one programme is typed, made 1982; the other programme is an annotated photocopy and comes with a list of delegates at the conference, programme made 1982, and photocopy and annotations made c1982.
- Annotated typed conference paper "Choreutic Concepts and Practice" by Valerie Preston-Dunlop, written 1982, annotations made c1982.
- Photocopy of typed conference paper "Restoring Dance to Parnassus: The Scholarly Challenges of Eighteenth-Century Dance" by Richard Ralph, written c1982, photocopy made c1982.
- Annotated typed conference paper "The Crucial Gap" (the paper is also annotated to say that it was maybe written by Belinda Quirey), written c1982, annotations made c1982.
- Annotated typed conference paper "Present Problems of Dance Aesthetics" by Selma Jeanne Cohen, written c1982, annotations made c1982.
- Annotated typed conference paper "The Nature of Dance Scholarship: The Critic's Task" by Clement Crisp, written c1982, annotations made c1982. Also includes a photocopy of a later, annotated typed version of the same article; article written c1982, annotations made c1982 before the photocopy was made, photocopy made c1982.
- Photocopy of typed conference paper "Anthropology and Dance Scholarship" by Roderyk Lange, written c1982, photocopy made c1982. The photocopy has been annotated with the author's name; annotations made c1982.
- Annotated draft of conference paper "Movement and Meaning: Dance in Anthropological Perspective" by John Blacking, written 1982, annotations made c1982. Also includes an annotated typed sheet of ammendments for the draft paper; ammendments written c1982, annotations made c1982.
- Annotated photocopy of conference paper "Isadora Duncan: An Analysis of Her Work" by June Layson, written 1982, photocopy and annotations made c1982.
- Typed conference paper "Changes of Emphasis and Mechanics in the Teaching of Ballet Technique" by Richard Glasstone, written 1982.
- Typed conference paper "Cesare Pugni: A Plea for Justice" by Ivor Guest, written c1982.
- Photocopy of typed conference paper "Scholastic Tasks of a Sociology of Dance" by Peter Brinson, written c1982, photocopy made c1982.
- Photocopy of typed conference paper "In Question: The Body" by Ann Hutchinson Guest, written c1982, photocopy made c1982.
- Photocopy of typed conference paper "Thoughts on a Theatre Museum" by Alexander Schouvaloff, written c1982, photocopy made c1982.
- Handwritten notes taken at the conference, 1982. [Perhaps written by Ann Hutchinson Guest.] |