Please join us for the second edition of The Eccles Centre Digital Salon, an online forum that showcases research outputs undertaken by Eccles Fellows and Award winners at the British Library.
The second Salon on Tuesday 2 May (16.30-17.30 UK time) will spotlight the work of Robert Hylton – choreographer, researcher and 2019 Eccles Visiting Fellow.
Robert will speak about his book Dancing in Time: The History of Moving And Shaking commissioned and published by the British Library. His talk will be followed by an informal audience discussion, facilitated by the Eccles Centre team.
Dancing in Time, published in 2022, uncovers the history of the visual imagery of dance. It includes 200 illustrations from the Library’s collections – an incredible array of photographs, cartoons, newspapers, magazines, musical scores and other periodicals and ephemera. The author explores the origins of popular dance styles and the amazing people and histories behind glitzy dance performances. The book features the legendary dancer Josephine Baker, the beginnings of the waltz in eighteenth-century Austria; the power of African-American influence on the jive and the Lindy hop; the transatlantic and Afro-Latino origins of Brazilian Samba and Argentinian Tango, and the early foundations of hip-hop in funk and disco styles. Hylton also depicts the incredible impact of dance on society, rebalancing gender dynamics, shattering expectations of class and embracing cross-cultural influences.
The Digital Salon is an opportunity for British Library colleagues, external researchers, and anyone interested to explore the ideas raised by the talk or to discuss the British Library’s Americas collections.
Robert Hylton is a London-based international choreographer, director, performer and teacher. He has worked with Netflix and Channel 4, and with institutions including The National Gallery and The Royal Opera House. He received the Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship in 2019.
For more information about the publication, please check the link: Dancing in Time: The History of Moving and Shaking – British Library Online Shop (bl.uk)
Please register for the event here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcofu6sqTIuGty41IMTTU_49ARQ8VSVponl
For more information about the Eccles Centre’s Coffee Breaks, please check the link: Eccles Centre Monthly Coffee Breaks| Events – The British Library | The British Library (bl.uk)
If you have any questions, please email the Eccles Centre at eccles-centre@bl.uk
