Fred Astaire: The Conference
ORIEL COLLEGE OXFORD
21–24 JUNE 2008

Speakers, Presenters, and Performers
SPECIAL GUESTS:
 
AVA ASTAIRE MCKENZIE
& RICHARD MCKENZIE

Ava with her dad

 

Ava & Richard


Click here for synopses of presentations.
 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

  • John Mueller (Ohio State University), author of Astaire Dancing
  • Ken Barnes (Founder & CEO, The Laureate Company), producer of Astaire recordings in London
  • Beth Genné (Associate Professor of Dance Studies and Art History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), author of Dancing in the Frame: Astaire, Balanchine, Kelly and American Film Dance (OUP, forthcoming)

OTHER SPEAKERS:

Please be aware that some changes to the intended programme content may be made if circumstances not presently anticipated should so require.

 

PERFORMERS:

 


"The Astaire Conference" is an organization which contracts with the College for the use of facilities,
but which has no formal connection with The University of Oxford.

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