The New York Baroque Dance Co.

September 10   3-3:45pm

Open House at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York

September 17 3-5pm Master Class: Find Your Baroque Body

  Join Master Teachers and Choreographers Beatrice Massin and Catherine Turocy as they take you through a movement class to “find your Baroque body.”   Separately they have developed their own methods involving improvisation and spatial concepts which gives a 21st century dancer a window looking into the complexities of motion and expression from the Baroque period.  Beatrice will teach for 50 minutes and Catherine will teach during the second half of the class. This will be followed by a 20 minute discussion period.  Dancers from Beatrice’s company, Fetes Galantes, and from Catherine’s company, The New York Baroque Dance Company, will also be in attendance.  Tuition is $20. Location: Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Sunday September 18 at 7:30pm

Baroque Dance Then and Now: Part I

Directions to Carnegie Room in Nyack

Carnegie Room Concerts presents world renowned Baroque musician, Anthony Newman, in three concerts featuring both new and old dances composed in the Baroque style. Each concert will include appearances by dancers from the NY Baroque Dance Company, who will demonstrate various Baroque Dances while sharing the social customs that go with it. Performers: Danielle Farina, viola; Anthony Newman, piano and Featuring NY Baroque Dancers: Alexis Silver and Joy Havens.

September 24, 2011 at 7pm and 9:30pm

French Opera-Ballet Project at the Buttenweiser Hall at 92nd Street Y in NYC, live music played on period instruments by Concert Royal directed by James Richman on harpsichord with Cynthia Roberts, Baroque violin; Sandra Miller, Baroque flute and Brent Wissick, viola da gamba. Dancers: Carly Fox, Rachel List, Meggi Sweeney Smith, Alexis Silver, Justin Coates, Olsi Gjeci and Gregory Youdan.

Join us for an hour of French opera-ballet in concert followed by an hour of social dance from the 18th century where the audience is invited to join the dancers of the company in learning Le Menuet de la Reine, a contredanse from 1706.  This evening promises to be a pleasure not to be missed with music by Lully, Rameau and Clérambault played on period instruments featuring 7 dancers in Baroque costume and soprano Lianne Coble,

The program will be offered twice: 7pm and again at 9:30pm

Coffee and cookies will be served during the social dance hour when you are dancing or just staying to chat and watch the fun!

Tickets are $40       For tickets see: www.92y.org

Sunday September 25 at 7:30pm

Baroque Dances, Then And Now, Part II

Directions to Carnegie Room in Nyack

Carnegie Room Concerts presents world renowned Baroque musician, Anthony Newman, in three concerts featuring both new and old dances composed in the Baroque style. Each concert will include appearances by dancers from the NY Baroque Dance Company, who will demonstrate various Baroque Dances while sharing the social customs that go with it.  Performers: Neos Quartet, Anthony Newman, piano and Featuring NY Baroque Dancers: Carly Fox and Justin Coates.

October 1, 2011 3-4:30pm

Dance of the Month at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York,  $14 per class

October 9, 2011 at 3:30pm

Dancing with Bach  with Catherine Turocy, director of the New York Baroque Dance Company, and dancer Meggi Sweeney Smith. J.S. Bach’s dances, such as the Minuet, Sarabande, Bourée, etc. vividly brought to life with historical steps. With music from Bach’s Partitas and Suites for solo instruments played by Cynthia Roberts, violin, and Allen Whear, cello. Presented by Musica Pro Rara directed by Allen Whear in Baltimore, Maryland at Towson Center for the Arts. See  www.promusicarara.org  for more information.

November 5,  3-4:30pm

Dance of the Month at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $14 per class.  Learn the Sarabande with Meggi Sweeney Smith.  Christine Gummere on cello.

November 13, 7:30pm

BAROQUE DANCES, THEN AND NOW: : PART III with Zara Lawler, flute; Anthony Newman, piano and Featuring NY Baroque Dancers: Meggi Sweeney Smith and Olsi Gjeci.

Bach: Suite for solo flute; Newman: Suite for solo flute; Bach: Sonata in B minor for flute and piano, BWV 1030; Newman: Sonata Populare for flute and piano.

This is part of the Carnegie Room Concerts in Nyack, New York, LINK:

http://www.carnegieroom.org/index.php/directions

November 16 beginning with cocktails at 7pm

Guest appearance at the French Heritage Society Black Tie Gala held at the distinguished Metropolitan Club on Fifth Avenue. There will be a live auction of a Grand Prize trip for two for very special visits of the Chateaux and Gardens in the Loire Valley.  Celebrating almost 30 years of French Heritage Society’s achievements, this year’s theme, The Royal Families of Fontainebleau, will honor the Kings and Queens of France. A thematic meal relating to this legendary Palace will be served. This event is held under the High Patronage of the Ambassador of France to the United States, François Delattre; Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, Ambassador Gérard Araud; and Consul General of France in New York, Philippe Lalliot .

This event will raise funds for restoration grants for historical monuments and buildings in France and the U.S. and for the French Historical Society transatlantic educational program for students in the preservation field.

For further information contact Greg Joye, Executive Director at greg@frenchheritagesociety.org.  Tel: 212-759-6846

December 3, 2011 3-4:30pm

Dance of the Month at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $14 per class

January 7, 2012, 3-4:30pm

Dance of the Month at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $14 per class

February 4, 2012 3-4:30pm

Dance of the Month at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $14 per class.  Taught by Meggie Sweeney Smith, L’Aimable Vainqueur.  Loure

February 12, 2012 at 7pm

Chamber Music and Dance from Versailles and London the Dallas Bach Society at SMU”s Caruth Auditorium .  Follow this link for more information and tickets: http://www.dallasbach.org/concerts/Chamber-Music-Dance  Dancers include Glenda Norcross,  Catherine Turocy,  Meggi Sweeney Smith,  Carly Fox, Junichi Fukuda, Olsi Gjeci and Gregory Youdan.  The concert will begin with a demonstration of Mr. Priest’s Minuet published in London in 1711 and will be danced by 12  young girls who have been selected from an audition in the Dallas Metroplex.  The Diana,  choreographed for the first Lady Di, will be among the fascinating ball dances from London.  A dance which was connected with Louis XIV of France, known as the Sun King, will be performed by Junichi Fukuda.  Excerpts from Jean Philippe Rameau’s Les Fetes de Ramire as well as Les Folies d’Espagne will complete the dance program.

February 17, 2012 in Le Touquet, France

Chamber Music and Dance from Versailles and London:  Le Touquet, founded in 1912 and celebrating their 100th anniversay,  has invited  us to perform dances from Jean Philippe Rameau’s Les Fetes de Ramire, among other works, with James Richman leading an international group of early music chamber music players.  Follow this link for details :  http://www.lesmalinsplaisirs.com/Les-Malins-Plaisirs.php?page=programme&NB=Jour1

March 3, 2012 3-4:30pm

Dance of the Monthat the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $14 per class

Seth Williams teaches the Bouree d’Achille accompanied on violin by Paul Friedman.

March 4-11, 2012

Residency at Cornell University

April 7, 2012, 3-4:30pm

Dance of the Monthat the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $14 per class.

Ani Udovicki teaches the Passacaille d’Armide.

April 15-22, 2012

Residency at Indiana University

May 7, 2012 at 3-4:30pm

Dance of the Monthat the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $14 per class.

Caroline Copeland teaches the Chaconne .

June 4, 2012 at 3-4:30pm

Dance of the Monthat the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $14 per class.

Caroline Copeland teaches Le Devin du Village Allemande by Jean Jacques Rousseau.

June 8 and June 10, 2012

Music by Claudio Monteverdi: Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda,  Ballo delle Ingrate and other works from his 1638 Madrigals of Love and War with Ars Lyrica Houston directed by Matthew Dirst. For more information and tickets see  http://www.arslyricahouston.org/

June 29-30,  July 1, 2012

Santa Barbara Historical Dance Weekend at UC Santa Barbara with Sandra Noll Hammond, Richard Powers and Catherine Turocy.  See special post on website.

August 4, 2012 at 3-4:30pm

Dance of the Month at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $14 per class