Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance
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Janet Roseman’s book is a collection of conversational interviews with seven well-known dancers and choreographers: Edward Villela, Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris, Catherine Turocy, Alonzo King, Danny Grossman and Michael Smuin. Featuring biographies, interviews and photographs, it offers insight into the life of each choreographer, exploring their professional development, relationships with mentors and audiences, their creative process, the effects of dancing on the body, and what it simply feels like to dance.Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Routledge (March 1, 2001)
ISBN: 0415929520
Product Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 0.5 inches
Voltaire’s Temple of Glory
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Based on the writings of Voltaire, this baroque ballet by Catherine Turocy takes place in Voltaire’s home while he is writing the libretto for a court celebration (Temple de la Gloire) concerned with the nature of royalty. There is an Air for Heroes and Demons, Air for the Muses (Passepied), a Minuet, a Loure, Air for Bacchus, Air for Followers of Bacchus, Gavotte I and II for Venus and Mars, and Final Contradanze. Filmed at the Jarvis Conservatory, Napa, California. Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Performed by the Concert Royal and 18 dancers and workshop students in period costume. 1998, 27 mins.
The Pleasures of the Dance
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Written, directed and choreographed by Catherine Turocy. Music by Rameau, Lully, Leclair. Performed by the Concert Royal. Filmed at the Jarvis Conservatory with Catherine Turocy, Deda Christina Colonna, and 13 dancers and workshop students in period costume.
Eighteenth century Paris is the setting for this Baroque dance video in which the aristocratic Madame Montaigue brings to life a salon gathering where a menuet ‘deux, a gigue’ deux (choreography by Feuillet) , and a menuet ‘quatre (choreography by Gaudrau) are danced. Next, at the dancing master’s house, after a fencing lesson and a sarabande lesson, a forlana and the Rigaudon from La Bretagne (all choreographed by Picour) are performed. Then players from a Commedia troupe perform The Peasant in a Basket and The Three Legged Dance. Finally, onstage at the Paris Opera, Terpsicore, her attendants, faun, and sylvans perform a gavotte, musette, and tambourin.
Baroque Dance Unmasked
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“Baroque Dance Unmasked: Workshop to Performance” is a vivid Baroque dance documentary produced by Dancetime Publications in association with Catherine Turocy, the renowned Artistic Director of The New York Baroque Dance Company. The DVD provides a rare look at the artistic process in re-creating dance and dance-theater, from studio to stage. Included, there is information about Baroque music, fencing, mask work, notation, costumes, and the inner life of dance performers working in this dance style. Preview:
