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Saturday 21 June (Oriel College) |
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14.00-15.0 |
Registration and check-in |
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15.00-15.45 |
Afternoon tea and welcome (Hall) |
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15.45-17.0 |
Screening: Needle in a Haystack
(2001), an award-winning romantic comedy
short, written and directed by Eva Saks and
starring Stephanie Gatschet; Parkinson
interview with Fred & Ava Astaire (1975) |
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17.00-19.0 |
Free time |
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19.30-21.00 |
Dinner (Hall) |
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Sunday 22 June (Harris Lecture Theatre,
Oriel) |
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8.00-9.0 |
Breakfast (Hall) |
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9.00-9.15 |
Opening remarks |
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9.15-10.30 |
Keynote Presentation: John Mueller, ‘The
Choreography of Fred Astaire’ |
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10.30-10.50 |
Morning coffee (Harris Seminar Room) |
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10.50-11.50 |
Kathleen Riley, ‘“Nothing like them since
the Flood”: Fred and Adèle Astaire on the
London Stage’ |
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11.50-12.30 |
Betsy Baytos, ‘Footage from the Fred Stone
Collection of the Broadway show Gay
Divorce (1933)’ |
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12.30-13.10 |
Paula Marantz Cohen, ‘The Cinematic Astaire:
Astaire’s Use of Interior Landscape’ |
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13.10-14.0 |
Lunch (Hall) |
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14.00-15.30 |
Special Guests: Ava Astaire McKenzie &
Richard McKenzie discuss ‘Fred, the Private
Man’ |
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15.30-16.0 |
Afternoon tea (Hall) |
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16.00 -17.0 |
Chris & Robert Bamberger, ‘Astaire as Actor
Within and Outside of
Dance: The Sky’s the Limit’ |
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17.00-17.40 |
Patricia Carley, ‘Yolanda and the Thief: An
Under-Appreciated Astaire Oddity’ |
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19.00-19.30 |
Drinks reception (Second Quad (if fine) or
Champneys Room (if wet)) |
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19.30-21.0 |
Banquet (Hall) |
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21.0 |
Screening: The Sky’s The Limit (1943) |
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Monday 23 June (Harris Lecture Theatre,
Oriel) |
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8.00-9.0 |
Breakfast (Hall) |
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9.00-10.0 |
Keynote Presentation: Beth Genné, ‘“He is
like Bach”: Astaire, Balanchine and Ballet’ |
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10.00-10.30 |
Michael Morley, ‘Dancing Feet and Metric
Feet: A Note on the Number “Slap That Bass”
from Shall We Dance’ |
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10.30-11.0 |
Morning coffee (Harris Seminar Room) |
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11.00-11.40 |
Patricia Eliot Tobias, ‘Fred Astaire’s Greatest
Partner: The Camera’ |
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11.40-12.20 |
Peter Evans, ‘Foils for Fred: The Supporting
Roles in Top Hat’ |
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12.20-13.0 |
Andrew Klevan, ‘Internalizing the Musical:
The Uneventful, The Missable and the
Suspended in Fred Astaire’s Performance’ |
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13.00-14.0 |
Lunch (Hall) |
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14.00-14.45 |
G. Bruce Boyer, ‘The Triumph of Style: Fred
Astaire as the New Man’ |
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14.45-15.30 |
Alessandra Garofalo, ‘“Austerlitz sounded
too much like a battle”: Fred Astaire’s
Austrian Roots’ |
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15.30-16.0 |
Afternoon tea (Harris Seminar Room) |
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16.00-17.0 |
Philip Davey, ‘The Greatest Cross-Cast of
Our Time!: Fred Astaire in On the Beach’ |
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17.00-18.0 |
Panel discussion: ‘Fred & Ginger’ with Peter
Evans, Hannah Hyam, John Mueller and
Catherine Surowiec (includes special Astaire-Rogers
compilation) |
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19.30-21.0 |
Dinner (Hall) |
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21.0 |
Screening: Swing Time (1936) |
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Tuesday 24 June (Holywell Music Room) |
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8.00-9.0 |
Breakfast (Hall) |
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9.30-10.30 |
Keynote Presentation: Ken Barnes, ‘Fred
Astaire: Singer and Recording Artist’ |
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10.30-11.15 |
Todd Decker, ‘“Jack the Bell Boy”: Fred
Astaire and Other Jazz Musicians’ |
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11.15-11.45 |
Intermission |
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11.45-12.45 |
Ben Sears & Brad Conner, 'Top
Hat: Songs of Fred Astaire' |
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12.45-14.00 |
Lunch (Wadham College) |
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14.00-15.0 |
Janie Dee |
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15.00-16.0 |
David Benson, ‘The Way He Changed My Life: A
Performer Reflects on Astaire's Influence’ |
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16.00-17.30 |
Jack Gibbons, ‘Fred Astaire, exponent of the
famous Harlem Stride Piano style (as made
famous by James P. Johnson, Fats Waller,
Gershwin and others)’ |
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Finale |