The Twenty-Eighth McElroy Shakespeare Celebration:
"Mischief and Modesty in Measure:
Making Much Ado about Movement in Shakespeare's Plays"
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
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
Photo Credit: Mary Lutze
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.