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WEDNESDAY 18th: QUEER CULTURES RESEARCH SEMINAR

Prof. Pascale Aebischer from the University of Exeter will be speaking
on 'Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio (1978-86)'. All welcome.

There will be a free film showing of 'Caravaggio' on Monday the 16th for
any who have not seen the film (or have and wish to rewatch it!) in
preparation for the seminar. This will be held at 7pm in GR05, in the
English Faculty.

The seminar itself will be on the 18th November, in the English Faculty
Boardroom, 4.30-6.00.

After the seminar, please feel free to join us for drinks and dinner.

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Queer Cultures Research Seminar:
https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/seminars/queercultures.html

As part of the Festival of Ideas, a dazzling 24-hour montage of Arena
documentaries made over the past four decades will be shown at various
sites across the City from Friday 23rd October at noon. This can also be
accessed through the following link, should people wish to stream it via
their computers:

http://nightandday.arenahotel.tv/player

A discussion on the subject of public service broadcasting featuring
Arena's Series Producer, Anthony Wall, the BBC's Creative Director, Alan
Yentob, & Professor Georgina Born of Oxford University will be held at
5.00 PM on Saturday 24th October at Lady Mitchell Hall. Everyone is most
welcome to attend.

Further details of both events are available via the Centre for Film and
Screen news page:

http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/film/news/arena-night-and-day

http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/film/news/bbc-arena-at-40

Or contact Michael Hrebeniak

mh433@cam.ac.uk

Pop up talks at the Southbank Centre until Monday 12th October

Next week's Drama and Performance Seminar takes place in the Judith E
Wilson Studio, English Faculty on Monday 17th Feb at 5pm. The week’s
theme is ‘Entropy’ and Michael Byrne will be kick-starting our
conversation with a presentation titled: Revisiting Helpmann's Lost
Dance-Dramas.

The history of classical ballet could be contextualised as a history of
'lost works', enforcing a belief that dance is unlike the other arts
through its inability to leave a record in the form of a tangible object
such as a painting, a script or a musical score. This was evidenced by
the disappearance of Robert Helpmann’s allegorical dance-dramas 'Miracle
in the Gorbals' (1944) and 'Adam Zero' (1946), where the closing
revivals at the Royal Opera House in London rendered the productions’
choreographical imprints traceless. Through an initiative conceived and
championed by David Drew (a long-serving member of the Royal Ballet for
over fifty years) these 1940s productions are being ‘reawakened’ using
the memories of surviving cast members aged between seventy-five and
ninety. This presentation therefore aims to display filmed extracts from
the rehearsal/workshops completed thus far, and encourage further
discussion on how the mature dancer’s transmission of historical and
embodied knowledge provides an opportunity to problematise the
relationships between dance and drama during (re)performance.

Michael Byrne is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge,
investigating the role of the senior performer and creativity in dance,
with a particular focus on the regenerative processes involved in
British narrative ballet. Having completed his undergraduate degree in
South Africa, Michael furthered his work in performance studies at the
Royal Academy of Music, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and King's College
London. He continues to perform as an actor with the Royal Ballet.