2019 Celebration | loyolauniversity

The Twenty-Eighth McElroy Shakespeare Celebration:

"Mischief and Modesty in Measure:

Making Much Ado about Movement in Shakespeare's Plays"

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Pictures from the 2019 Celebration

Photo Credit: Mary Grace Ritter

Photo Credit: Mary Grace Ritter

Photo Credit: Mary Grace Ritter

Photo Credit: Mary Grace Ritter

Photo Credit: Mary Grace Ritter

Photo Credit: Mary Grace Ritter

Photo Credit: Mary Lutze

Photo Credit: Mary Lutze

Guest Lecturer: Dr. Emily Winerock

EMILY WINEROCK is a visiting scholar at the Women’s Institute at Chatham University and co-director and co-founder of the Shakespeare and Dance Project (http://shakespeareandance.com). Her research focuses on the practices and politics of dance in 16th- and 17th-century England and Europe, while her teaching encompasses the history of dance from the Renaissance to the modern era.

Dr. Winerock’s scholarly articles have appeared in Borrowers and Lenders: A Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation and Dance Chronicle, and in essay collections, including The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance, edited by Lynsey McCulloch and Brandon Shaw (2019), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, edited by Sherril Dodd (2018), and Playthings in Early Modernity: Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games, edited by Allison Levy (2017). A scholar-practitioner, she teaches Renaissance dance workshops and also choreographs and consults for theatrical productions.

Currently, Dr. Winerock is working on a book project with Amy Rodgers and Linda McJannet entitled Shakespeare and Dance: History, Tradition, and Adaptation.

The Participants

SARAH GABEL, Ph.D. (Director of Scenes) is Professor of Theatre and chairperson of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts (DFPA) at Loyola University Chicago. She teaches various courses in acting and theatre pedagogy and was the director of the DFPA’s production of Much Ado About Nothing. Dr. Gabel has long been interested in Historical Dance and recently participated in two, week long workshops in Historical Dance at both Stanford University and the University of California in Santa Barbara. Loyola directing credits include last year’s production of Domestic: three Plays by Women and Cabaret as well as She Loves Me, fml: or How Carson McCullers Saved My Life, Hot Mikado, Illuminating Voices, Into the Woods, Little Women the Musical, Misalliance, Cinderella, Sweeney Todd, Assassins, A Little Night Music, Into the Woods (a second time), West Side Story, Three Penny Opera, A Chorus Line and Baby. Professional credits include direction of Third for Apple Tree Theatre, Bleach for 13Carrat Productions, The Fantasticks, for Touchstone Theatre, The Infernal Machine, for The Eclipse Theatre, Climbing the Volcano, for Piccolo Theatre and Absurdopera composed by music colleague Gustavo Leone.

Much Ado About Nothing

STUDENT CAST

BALTHASAR Brian Warner

MESSENGER TO LEONATO Maxwell Dziabis

LEONATO Alejandro Shydlowski

INNOGEN Samantha Satay

HERO Mia Triantafillou

BEATRICE Ella Heider

MARGARET Gina Saglimbeni

URSULA Isabella Van Houzen

DON PEDRO Eric Guy

COUNT CLAUDIO Garvin van Dernoot

SIGNOR BENEDICK John Drea

DON JOHN William Cheeseman

BORACHIO Aaron Coffey

CONRADE Kennedy Bohm

DOGBERRY Jason Krause

VERGES Zachary Koptik

GEORGE SEACOAL/ATTENDANT J. Carlin Decker

1st WATCHMAN-HUGE OATCAKE/ATTENDANT James O'Hara

2nd WATCHMAN/FRIAR FRANCIS Jack Rimar

SEXTON/ATTENDANT Nicholas Lulloff

ATTENDANTS Claire Dillon

Samantha Harvey

Maggie Smith

Media and Program

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"Medieval and Early Modern Dance in the Book"

In anticipation of the 28th Annual McElroy Shakespeare Celebration, consider attending the Newberry Library's symposium on April 5th, which focuses on the theme of early modern dance and music in the book. This symposium will serve as a perfect compliment to the McElroy Celebration as the event page promises "lectures, a session with rare books, a demonstration of Baroque dance, and a performance by the Newberry Consort." For more information regarding registration for the Newberry's symposium, click on the linked photo above.