Here Today, Gone Tomorrow ? Ephemerality and Materiality in France in the Long 18th- Century : Arts, Theatre, and Spectacle (Venise)
Organization :
Elisa Cazzato (Università Ca’ Foscari), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow
Scientific Committee :
Renaud Bret-Vitoz (Sorbonne Université)
Elisa Cazzato (Università Ca’ Foscari)
Emanuele De Luca (Université Côte d’Azur)
Meredith Martin (NYU)
Barbara Nestola (CMBV)
Gerardo Tocchini (Università Ca’ Foscari)
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Tuesday 27
10.00 – 10.15
Welcome
10.15 – 10.30
Greetings and conference introduction
Elisa Cazzato (Università Ca’ Foscari)
Nicoletta Bortoluzzi (Università Ca’ Foscari - research advisor)
Barbara Nestola (CMBV)
10.30 – 12.00
Session 1
Ephemerality in French Theater
Chair: Paola Perazzolo (Università degli Studi di Verona)
Renaud Bret-Vitoz (Sorbonne Université), L’expérience éphémère d’Ériphyle (Voltaire, 1732) à la scène: matériaux tangibles d’une dramaturgie avant reprises et réécritures
Pierre Frantz (Sorbonne Université), L’éphémère et la circonstance, réflexion sur le théâtre de la Révolution française
Ilaria Lepore (Università degli Studi La Sapienza), L’art du comédien au tournant des Lumières. Souci d’éphémère et sensibilité mémorielle
12.00-13.00
Session 2
Architectures and Urban Settings
Chair: Emanuele De Luca (Univeristé Côte D’Azur)
Alessandra Mignatti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), Tra utopia e ricerca del consenso: gli apparati effimeri di epoca napoleonica a Milano
Annamaria Testaverde (Università degli Studi di Bergamo), Una via triumphalis per «Florence la belle ville»: dall’apparato effimero al progetto stabile (1608-1810)
15.00-16.00
Session 3
Ephemerality in Dance
Chair and discussant: Stefania Onesti (Università degli Studi di Padova/Università Aldo Moro Bari)
Olivia Sabee (Swarthmore College), Noverre on Eighteenth-Century Dance Theory and Ephemerality
Cornelis Vanistendal (Independent Scholar), Ephemerality on the Fringe. Power Quadrilles in Brussels on the Eve of Waterloo
16.00-17.30
Session 4
Researching Ephemerality in Arts and Costumes
Chair: Carlotta Sorba (Università degli Studi di Padova)
Daniella Berman (New York University), “…even in the midst of the terrible movements and variables of the Revolution”: Jacques-Louis David’s Joseph Bara and the unrealized fête of the 10th of Thermidor
Brontë Hebdon (New York University), ‘The Right to Dress Plainly’: Embroidery and the Ephemeral in Napoleonic Court Costumes
Petra Dotlačilová (Stockholm University / CMBV), Witnesses of the Past: Studying Costumes as Material Evidence of the Ephemeral Performance
Wednesday 28
9.30-11.00
Session 5
Reconstructing Feasts, Settings, and Special Effects
Chair: Barbara Nestola (CMBV)
Christine Jeanneret (University of Copenhagen), Ephemeral spaces, ephemeral costumes, and ephemeral arts: The Bal des Ifs at Versailles in 1745
Gerardo Tocchini (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), Lorsqu’une scénographie devient ‘la’ preuve: « Orfeo ed Euridice » de Ch. W. Gluck, opéra maçonnique
Emanuele De Luca (Univeristé Côte d’Azur), Poudres, feux, couleurs: les artifices des Ruggieri à Paris au XVIIIe siècle
11.00-12.00
Session 6
The Specter of Race
Chair and discussant: Michele Matteini (New York University)
Noémie Etienne (University of Vienna), Meredith Martin (New York University), The Comte d’Artois and the Spectacle of Otherness in Pre-Revolutionary Paris
12.00 – 13.00
Keynote lecture and discussion
Mark Ledbury (The University of Sydney), “Et le lendemain matin… Afterlives of the Ephemeral”