February 23, 2012

Schedule of Events:

Thursday 26th June

14:00 – 16:00	Conference Registration, Ground Floor, Sólás Building
18:30	Welcome Reception, Boardroom, Sólás, BuildingReception is followed by the Keynote Address of the Conference Keynote Speaker: Dr Andree Grau, Roehampton University, U.K.

Friday 27th June

09:30 – 11:00	Session 1: Business BuildingCommunicating the Past: Papers 1. Communicating Past Styles: Embodying History – Geraldine Morris 2. The Narrative: A Choreographic and Literary Model – Sharon Phelan 3. Case Study: Social Dance in Roscommon – Sean Shanagher
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break and Student Poster Exhibition
11:30 – 13:00	Session 2: Business BuildingThe Bach-Busoni Chaccone Panel Presentation 1. Busconi Chaccone: A Cultural Exchange of Experience, Knowledge and History – Lisa Fusillo 2. Bach-Busoni Chaccone: A Piano Transcription Examining Music Genres – Marina Fabrikant 3. Translation of Emotion and Identity – Crafting the Bach-Busoni Chaccone – Kennet Oberly
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:00	Session 3: Business BuildingLecture Demonstration: Stepping Beyond the Glitz – Máire Clerkin
15:00 – 15:20	Coffee Break
15:20 – 17:20	Session 4: Business BuildingDance Pedagogy: Papers/ Lecture Demonstration 1. Pedagogy and Practice: Exploring an Inter/Cross/Transdisciplinary Model for Choreographic Analysis and Practice – Katherina Farrugia 2. World Dance in University Settings: How Brigham Young University Communicates Cultural Context in Pedagogy and Performance – Quincy Robinson 3. The Aesthetics of Salsa and its Communication at Beginners Level – Cathriona Murphy and Óscar Mascareñas
18:15	Bus leaves Brandon Hotel for Listowel
18:45	Dinner
from 20:00	Mamuska Kerry; see Mamuska

Saturday 28th June

09:00 – 10:30	Session 5: Business BuildingDance Identity: Papers 1. No Boundaries: Multiculturalism, Identity and the Dancing Body in Irish- Based Contemporary Dance – Finola Cronin 2. Competing with Gender: An Examination of Techniques Employed by Women, their Motivations and Experiences, within the Irish Dance Competition Scene – Kathleen Keenan 3. A Methodology for Researching the Relational Aspects of Improvised Music and Movement: A Communication between Music Therapy Research and Dance Research – Simon Gilbertson
10:30 – 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:50	Session 6: Business BuildingLecture Demonstration: Reconfiguring Contra: Tradition and Change in a New England Contra Dance Performance – Dorothea E. Hast and Stanley Scott
11:50 – 12:50	Session 7: Business BuildingTraditional Dance Workshop: Jimmy Smith
12:50 – 14:00	Lunch and Best Student Poster award
14:00 – 15:00	Session 8: Business BuildingLecture Demonstration: David Bolger
15:00 – 15:20	Coffee Break
15:20 – 16:50	Session 9: Business BuildingDance Methodologies & Media: Papers 1. From Text to Figural – Renate Bräuninger 2. Out of the Museum: Communicating Dance by Notation: The Case of Dance Notation in the Nineteenth Century and Nowadays – Gabriella Asaro 3. Reclaiming the Art in Arts Research: Weblogs and Dance Praxis – Sheila Creevey
17:00 – 18:00	Session 10: Business BuildingLaban’s Concepts of Kinesphere and Dynamosphere as Tools for Expressiveness and Stage Presence in Dance Performance – Sylvie Pinard and Myriam Tremblay
from 20.30	Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland

Sunday 29th June

09:30 – 10:30	Session 11: Business BuildingIrish Step-Dance Perspectives (Papers) 1. Aspects of the History of the World Championship – John Cullinane 2. Competing Nationalism(s), a Northern Narrative – Patrick McHugh
10:30 – 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:20	Session 12: Business BuildingPerformance Audience Communication: Papers 1. Glitz and Glamour or Atomic Rearrangement: What do Dance Audiences Want? – Dee Reynolds 2. Connecting the Music and the Dance – Orfhlaith Ni Bhriain 3. Dancing the Music and Playing the Dance – Mats Melin
12:20 – 13:20	Session 13: Business BuildingModern Dance Workshop – Darrah Carr
13:20	Coffee and closing session