International conference Ballet in Musical Theater: History and Present Time

Center for Musical Theater Studies at Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (https://gnesin-academy.ru) in cooperation with Zhiganov Kazan State Conservatoire (https://kazancons.ru/), Saint Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory (https://www.conservatory.ru/), The Bolshoi Ballet Academy (https://balletacademy.ru/), Vaganova Ballet Academy (https://vaganovaacademy.ru/), State Institute of Art Studies (http://sias.ru), and Russian Institute of Art History (https://artcenter.ru) invite to an international conference «Ballet in Musical Theater: History and Present Time» in Moscow, Russia, November 21-25, 2022.

Call for Papers

The conference «Ballet in Musical Theater: History and Present Time» is dedicated to ballet as a synthetic art and its place in the musical theater. It will be held on November 21-25, 2022 in a hybrid format, ensuring online access to presentations. The aim of this project: evaluation of present-day ballet in musical theater and its research, сonsideration of ballet as a theatrical phenomenon. The theme of the conference relates to the following areas:

• Ballet as a synthetic art
• Music-gesture-dance: coordination and dialogue
• History of ballet
• Sources, reconstruction of scores and performances
• Choreographer and composer
• Ballet music in the works of composers
• Poetics of composition in dance and music
• Conductor and ballet score
• Plots, librettos and their literary sources
• Decorative art and staging in ballet
• Dance at the opera
• National choreographic schools: general and special
• Ethnochoreology
• music in ballet pedagogy
• Choreographic experiments of the 21^st century
• Ballet art in a socio-cultural context (criticism, reception)

We encourage applications from within the academies at all levels as well as independent researchers, writers and artists.

We have the intention to sel ect papers for a conference. Please send each abstract both in anonymized and unanonymized forms.

Participation with a poster presentation is possible.

Submission process

Please send proposals to kam@gnesin-academy.ru no late then September 15, 2022

Emails should include:

• photo close-up in TIFF or JPG format (fr om 300 to 600 dpi);
• brief CV of each participant, including academic degree, academic title, place of work (position) or study, contact information (phone, e-mail).
• title of presentation.
• Abstracts should be 300-400 words long (without any subheadings) and clearly present a research question/aim, critical review of the literature, results and conclusions. Abstracts should be submitted in pdf and docх.

Presentations should be 20 minutes in length, and will be followed by an additional 5 minutes for questions and discussion.

Official languages: Russian, English, German, French

Full audiovisual support will be offered. For all enquiries please contact the organizing team at kam@gnesin-academy.ru

Registration: Free. Рarticipants pay their own travel and accommodation expenses.

Proceedings:

Abstracts of the accepted papers and posters will be published online.

Selected revised papers will be published in E-Book Proceedings of the International Conference ‘Ballet in Musical Theater: History and Present Time’

Important dates:

Submission deadline: September 15, 2022

Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2022

Conference: November 21-25, 2022