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Terpsicore vacations in Maine

September 15, 2006 by segovia

 Contributed by Rachel

After Armide had such a good time at the Bates Dance Festival last summer, Terpsicore decided to try it out, too. I was able to introduce her to the BDF community when I performed an excerpt from Catherine Turocy’s version of the Handel opera Terpsicore during the Faculty Gala on August 5.

The audience gasped audibly (don’t you just love that?) when the curtain went up revealing my beautiful new costume made by Deirdre McGuire and Lisa Marzolf. (Of course, it’s not too hard to make a splash when the rest of the concert is being performed in more pedestrian, modern dance attire…) Audience members who had seen Armide last year said they were pleased to see an “unmasked” dance this year, for contrast.

In the opera, Apollo and Erato ask Terpsicore to portray various states of love. For this performance, I danced three sections. The first, a sarabande, is supposed to portray “noble and compassionate” love. The second, a rather melodramatic pantomime, illustrates jealousy. The third, a gigue, is meant to show the joys and intoxication of young love.

It is, of course, a challenge to dance and act at the same time. Catherine and I had a great coaching session shortly before I went to Maine and Caroline Copeland, who has recently performed the entire role with the NYBDC, also gave me some extremely helpful advice and insights.

Performing the sarabande and gigue are lovely and fun, but, I have to say, performing the jealousy pantomime is very cathartic and almost therapeutic! I highly recommend going through a dance at least once a day where you get to rip down some virtual curtains, trash some imaginary furniture, tear off your make-believe jewelry, and curse your “former” boyfriend to you know where…

I hope everyone had as delightful a summer as Terpsicore did in Maine.

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  1. on October 18, 2006 at 10:01 am Anonymous

    Rachel,This picture of you as Terpsichore is simply gorgeous! Congrats!!Sarah



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