The New York Baroque Dance Co.

Caroline Copeland has been described as a “dance-provacateur” by the Courier-Journal and “sublime” by the Wall Street Journal. Upon graduating from Goucher College in 1996, Ms. Copeland joined the New York Baroque Dance Company under the direction of Catherine Turocy. Highlights with the NYBDC include the Händel-Festspiele Göttingen production of Orlando (Drottningholm, 2009) and the title role in Handel’s Terpsicore with Wolfgang Katschner and the Lautten Compagney (Neues Palais, Sanssouci, 2005). Her other featured roles include Euridice in Gluck’s Orphée, and the Galant in Mozart’s Les Petits Riens, and Harlequin in Harlequin’s Capers.  Ms. Copeland has acted as assistant director to Ms. Turocy in her productions of Rousseau’s Le Devin du Village with Antoine Plante and the Mercury Baroque Ensemble, as well as Handel’s Atalanta with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra at the Deutches Theatre in Göttingen, Germany.  Ms. Copeland has also appeared with numerous groups, baroque and contemporary, such as the Metropolitan Opera, Bourbon Baroque, the New York Collegium, the Four Nations Ensemble, Company Rindfleisch, and the Bronx Opera.  She is a regular guest artist with the Boston Early Music Festival and has performed in their productions of Lully’s Thésée and Pysché , Conradi’s Ariadne, Blow’s Venus and Adonis, Charpentier’s Actéon, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe in which she also acted as co-choreographer.  Ms. Copeland has choreographed for the NYBDC, The Public Theater, Cornell University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Water Tower in Louisville, KY.  In May of 2010, Ms. Copeland made her directorial debut in Handel’s Alcina with Bourbon Baroque (Louisville, KY).  She has held workshops for singers, dancers, and actors as well as the general public, in period movement and dance and currently, she is pursuing a MFA in Dance at Sarah Lawrence College.