January 5, 2013 Dance of the Month with Ani Udovicki at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $15 per class
January 12, 2013 APAP SHOWING, TIME: 7 – 10:00 pm at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (Chapel) on West 55th Street, NYC.Come to a gala showcase featuring 6 of the finest world-class early music ensembles, produced by GEMS Live!
January 14-21, 2013 Catherine Turocy is Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at UCLA
January 20, 2013 Dance of the Month in San Diego with Catherine Turocy
January 28- March 1, 2013 Catherine Turocy directs the Magic Flute at the University of Miami
February 2, 2013 3-4:30pm Dance of the Month with Seth Williams at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $15 per class. Part I: Baroque Dance for Musicians taught by Seth Williams with Leah Gale Nelson, violin. This workshop is aimed at musicians especially, presupposes no existing dance skills, and will cover the basics of the baroque dance suite: the allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue. That said, all are welcome. We will discuss the distinctive movement qualities of each dance form, and while avoiding dogma, propose ways in which they might inform a musician’s choices when playing these musical forms.
February 17, 2013 Dance of the Month in San Diego with Glenda Norcross
March 2, 2013 3-4:30 Dance of the Month with Seth Williams at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $15 per class. Part II: Baroque Dance for Musicians taught by Seth Williams with Leah Gale Nelson, violin. This workshop is aimed at musicians especially, presupposes no existing dance skills, and will cover the basics of the baroque dance suite: the allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue. That said, all are welcome. We will discuss the distinctive movement qualities of each dance form, and while avoiding dogma, propose ways in which they might inform a musician’s choices when playing these musical forms.
March 17, 2013 Dance of the Month in San Diego with Catherine Turocy
April 13, 2013 Dance of the Month at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $15 per class
May 4, 2013 Dance of the Month at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $15 per class
May 10, 2013 Guest appearance at the Rose Gala for the French/American Chamber of Commerce in Dallas
May 19, 2013 Dance of the Month in San Diego with Glenda Norcross, sponsored by Musical Oratory: https://www.facebook.com/TheMusicalOratoryFoundation
May 25, 26 and 27 New York Botanical Garden: The Hungry Harlequin, a Pantomime in the Children’s Garden at 12pm and 2pm and Cultivating the Inner Courtier at Ross Hall, 1pm and 3pm. These dance performances are part of the May 18 – September 8, 2013, Wild Medicine: Healing Plants Around the World, Featuring The Italian Renaissance Garden.
June 1, 2013 Dance of the Month at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn with Meggi Sweeney Smith, New York, $15 per class
June 12-27, 2013 Catherine Turocy directs Dido and Aeneas for the Astoria Music Festival http://www.astoriamusicfestival.org/
June 28-July 2 Santa Barbara Historical Dance Workshops at UCSB https://nybaroquedance.org/santa-barbara-historical-dance-weekend/
July 4 and 5- New York Botanical Garden: The Hungry Harlequin, a Pantomime in the Children’s Garden at 12pm and 2pm. These dance performances are part of the May 18 – September 8, 2013, Wild Medicine: Healing Plants Around the World, Featuring The Italian Renaissance Garden.
July 6 and 7 – New York Botanical Garden: The Hungry Harlequin, a Pantomime in the Children’s Garden at 12pm and 2pm and Cultivating the Inner Courtier at Ross Hall, 1pm and 3pm. These dance performances are part of the May 18 – September 8, 2013, Wild Medicine: Healing Plants Around the World, Featuring The Italian Renaissance Garden.
July 13 & 14- New York Botanical Garden: Cultivating the Inner Courtier at Ross Hall, 1pm and 3pm. These dance performances are part of the May 18 – September 8, 2013, Wild Medicine: Healing Plants Around the World, Featuring The Italian Renaissance Garden.
July 7-29, 2013 Catherine Turocy teaches at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Baroque Opera Boot Camp and directs Dido and Aeneas. http://hawaiiperformingartsfestival.org/vocal-summer-program.html
July 13, 2013 Caroline Copeland and Junichi Fukuda at Hillwood Museum and Gardens for the French Festival
August 3, 2013 Dance of the Month at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $15 per class
August 20-29, 2013 New Baroque Workshop
Week 1/Part I: The Vitruvian Man Dances/Speaks. This 9 hour workshop over 3 days explores Da Vinci’s drawing and explanation of the microcosm/macrocosm in relation to the origins of theatrical dance as well as ballet’s roots in fencing and expressive gesture.
Week 2/Part II: Dance Theory from the Jesuits leading to the “New Baroque.” This 9 hour workshop over 3 days explores 17th and 18th century treatises defining the perfect ballet, many of them written by Jesuit priests.
See our website for a complete description of the 6 classes and the residency with Yanira Castro and her company, a canary torsi. https://nybaroquedance.org/2013/07/09/the-dna-of-theatrical-dance-at-dna/
Price: $115 for one week (three days of workshops); $180 for both weeks (six days of workshops).
Registration: Pre-registration recommended. Walk-ups for single week or double week enrollment welcome on August 20, space permitting, and single week enrollment on August 27, space permitting. NO option for single-day participation.
Check DNA website at https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/home.asp?studioid=5265 for information about how to register. Go to Calendar, click on Workshops and the information will appear.
August 31, September 1 and 2- New York Botanical Garden: The Hungry Harlequin, a Pantomime in the Children’s Garden at 12pm and 2pm and Cultivating the Inner Courtier at Ross Hall, 1pm and 3pm. These dance performances are part of the May 18 – September 8, 2013, Wild Medicine: Healing Plants Around the World, Featuring The Italian Renaissance Garden.
2012 PERFORMANCES AND CLASSES
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’sLes 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 Month at 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 Month at 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, 9, 10, 2012 Operation Sail in Norfolk, Virginia
Twelve dancers with the NYBDC perform as part of the festivities celebrating the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. Social and Comic dances of the era reconstructed by Caroline Copeland and Catherine Turocy as well as Ken Pierce, Ani Udovicki, Rachel List and creative contributions from Olsi Gjeci will be performed four times a day for three consecutive days.
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 9, 2012 Sanssouci, Germany
Commissioned especially for Frederick the Great’s 300th birthday at Sanssouci in Potsdam, Germany, Catherine Turocy”s work, a comic pantomime to the music of Carl Heinrich Graun’s “Pygmalion and his statue” from Adriano in Siria (Berlin, 1745) will be performed by Sarah Edgar in the role of Barbarina Campanini who played the Statue and Justin Coates in the the role of Pygmalion. L’ARTE DEL MONDO conducted by Werner Erhardt will play the music.
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.
July 14, 2012
Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Washington, DC : Caroline Copeland and Junichi Fukuda of The New York Baroque Dance Company revive the music and dance of 18th-century country and court life, including lessons in courtly manners for guests of all ages to join in. A pantomime and Baroque guitar performance by Kevin Shannon add delightful French flair. The Game of Graces and other pastimes enjoyed by French children will prove a challenge for visitors, while others apply their beauty patches—known as mouches—or enter the workshop to create their own work of art.
August 4, 2012 at 3-4:30pm
Dance of the Month at the Mark Morris Dance Center Brooklyn, New York, $14 per class
September 8, 2012, 3-3:45pm Open House for the Mark Morris Dance Center. Catherine Turocy will be taking students from Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man to the expressive Baroque Bubble which she considers to be at the basis of theatrical dance expression today. Would you like to read more about the class? See the Wall Street Journal Article: Stepping Through History by Corinna da Vonsecha-Wallheim.
Location : Directions
September 14, 2012
Dancing with the Dallas Bach Society, September 14, 8pm, Caruth Auditorium at SMU. The New York Baroque Dance Company joins the Dallas Bach Society in staged versions of the Ballo delle Ingrate and the Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda in settings premiered last season with Ars Lyrica Houston. Other madrigals with the Dallas Bach Chamber Singers and Baroque strings will complete the program. Link to tickets and more information: http//www.dallasbach.org
Second Performance September 17, 7pm
Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center in Alexandria, Louisiana. Links to tickets and more information:Madrigals of Love and War on the St. James Episcopal Church Concert Series.
Sept 24-Oct 5, 2012, C atherine Turocy in residence at The Ohio State University
Oct 5-10, 2012 Catherine Turocy in residence at Indiana University.
November 3-7, 2012 Catherine Turocy in residence at the University of Miami
November 17, 2012 NYBDC Baroque Evening at the 92nd Street Y
December 17 to 19th, 2012 Catherine Turocy is an invited speaker for La danse française et son rayonnement(1600-1800) Nouvelles sources, nouvelles perspectives at Versailles / Paris.
January 14-21, 2013 Catherine Turocy is Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at UCLA
January 28- February 3, 2013 Catherine Turocy directs the Magic Flute at the University of Miami
June, 2013, dates TBA UC Santa Barbara summer workshop
The New York Baroque Dance Co. 
Any other plans for DC concerts?