Saturday 5th January
Location: University Library (Singel 425, Amsterdam; near Koningsplein and flower market). Room: Doelenzaal.
16.00 Roundtable discussion about Einstein on the Beach (Jack Henry Moore, Bojan Djordjev, Kyle Gann, Sander van Maas, Jelena Novak, Keith Potter and others)
17.15 Break
18.00 Einstein on the Beach, De Nederlandse Opera (premiere performance)
Sunday 6th January
Location: University Library (Singel 425, Amsterdam; near Koningsplein and flower market). Room: Doelenzaal.
10.30-11.30 Panel 1 EoB: Repetition, Representation, Reception
Kyle Gann, Bard College, USA
Intuition and Algorithm in Glass’s Einstein on the Beach
Frits van der Waa, music critic for national newspaper De Volkskrant
Einstein in the Press
11.30-12.00 Break
12.00-13.00
PHILIP GLASS in conversation with John Richardson
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Panel 2 EoB: Opera after Drama
Jelena Novak, ASCA/University of Amsterdam, CESEM/Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Will it get some wind for the sailboat? The Life and Times of Postopera
Avra Sidiropoulou, Open University of Cyprus
Einstein on the Beach: Robert Wilson’s Humanistic Formalism
Bojan Djordjev, DasArts Master of Theatre, de Theaterschool, Amsterdam School of the Arts
Performing Viewing, Emancipated Spectatorship or Usership of Einstein on the Beach
16.00-16.20 Break
16.20-17.50 Panel 3 EoB: New Media and Singing Spectacle
Pieter T'Jonck, art critic for newspaper De Morgen, Belgium
'Dance’ as ‘democratic baroque’
Zeynep Bulut, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
What Einstein Sings: A Voice and a Series of Sounds that Speaks
John Richardson, University of Turku, Finland
Einstein on the Beach as Neosurrealist Collage and Postheroic Drama
17.50 Closing remarks
18.00 End
