"Proceedings of the conference at the University of Surrey Roehampton, November 8-9, 1997"--t.p.
Confronting Oblivion: Keynote Address and Lecture Demonstration on Reconstructing Ballets / Reconstructing the Disturbing New Spaces of Modernity: The Ballet Skating Rink / Diaghilev's 'Soviet Ballet': Reconstructing Jakulov's Set Design for Le Pas d'acier (1927) / After the Event: Reconstructing Ashton's 'Past' / Inside Artistry: The George Balanchine Foundation Video Archives / Is Authenticity to be Had? / Issues of Authenticity and Identity in the Restaging of Paul Taylor's Airs / Freeze Frame or Fast Forward? Notating Ashton's La Fille mal gardee using video as a primary source / The Preservation of the Ballets of Kurt Jooss / Reconstruction: Living or Dead? Authentic or Phony? / The Staging of Doris Humphrey's Passacaglia: A Director's Perspective / Interpreting or Remaking the Text? A Cross-Arts Panel Shakespeare: Preservation and /or Reinvention? / Reproducing the Dance: In Search of the Aura? / More than an Expert Scribe? The Human Dimension / The Present Past: Towards an Archaeology of Dance / Bringing the Past to the Present: An Experiment in Reviving Eighteenth-Century Theatre Dances / Imitating the Passions: Reconstructing the Meanings within the Passagalia of Venus & Adonis / Pierre Lacotte and the Romantic Ballet: An Account of the Work of the French Choreographer and Director / Bien ecoute... a Study of Nineteenth Century Ballet Mime / A la Recherche des pas Perdus: In Search of Lost Steps / Identity and the Open Work / Revisiting History in Postmodernism (Resurrecting Giselle... again... and again!) / Postmodern Play with Historic Narratives in the Reconstruction of Lea Anderson's Flesh and Blood (1989) / Deborah MacMillan interviewed by Christopher Cook and Monica Mason's demonstration of the Solo for the Chosen One from MacMillan's The Rite of Spring (1962) -- Matthew Bourne interviewed by David Leonard. Kenneth Archer and Millicent Hodson -- Ramsay Burt -- Lesley-Anne Sayers -- Carol A. Martin -- Nancy Reynolds -- Ann Hutchinson Guest -- Angela Kane -- Michele Braban -- Clare Lidbury -- Muriel Topaz -- Lesley Main -- Ann Thompson -- Helen Thomas -- Ann Whitley -- Alessandra Iyer -- Madeleine Inglehearn -- Moira Goff -- Nadine Meisner -- Giannandrea Poesio and Marian Smith -- Alastair Macaulay -- Sarah Rubidge -- Vida Midgelow -- Valerie A. Briginshaw --