BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY: 'THE DYING SWAN:   SAVING THE RUSSIAN BALLET’ - Professor Tim S
 choll (Oberlin College and Helsinki University)
DTSTART:20120202T173000Z
DTEND:20120202T190000Z
UID:TALK36235@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Sean Durman
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nDance writers like to describe the dance as the mos
 t ethereal of art forms. With no standard system of notation\, and recordi
 ng of performances generally prohibited\, how to locate the truth of a per
 formance said to be ‘lost?’  In Russia today\, the situation is even m
 ore complicated. With theaters mostly funded by the state and a new legion
  of fans making their own videos\, the researcher’s task of documenting 
 a production becomes ever more difficult.  This presentation investigates 
 these questions in analysis of excerpts from video documentation of Michel
  Fokine's ‘The Swan\,’ George Balanchine's ‘The Nutcracker’\, and 
 Marius Petipa's ‘Sleeping Beauty’\, as well as Evgenii Bauer’s 1916 
 ballet-obsessed film\, ‘The Dying Swan’.\n \nThe lecture is free and o
 pen to the public.
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Hall\, Trinity College
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR