• Home
    • History
  • About Us
    • Directors and Staff
      • Directors
        • Catherine Turocy
          • Staged Operas/Ballets by Catherine Turocy and available to be re-staged in the future
          • Vitruvian Man, Baroque Dance and Fractals
          • Interpretation
        • Caroline Copeland
        • Sarah Edgar
        • Patricia Beaman, Advisor
        • James Richman, Music Director of The New York Baroque Dance Company
      • Dancers
        • Julia Bengtsson
        • Brynt Beitman
        • Caroline Copeland
        • Julian Donahue
        • Sarah Edgar
        • Carly Fox
        • Olsi Gjeci
        • Samuel Humphreys
        • Roberto Lara
        • Rachel List
        • Glenda Norcross
        • Patrick Pride
        • Alexis Silver
        • Meggi Sweeney Smith
        • Matthew Ting
        • Ani Udovicki
  • Historical Dance at Play: Welcome Home II
  • Zoom Classes and Workshops
    • Historical Dance at Play: Dance Through Time
      • Historical Dance at Play: Dance Through Time
      • 2019 DANCE WEEKEND: MYSTIC FOUNTAIN
        • 2018 Dance Weekend: Historical Dance at Play
        • Summer Dance Workshop 2017
          • 2017 Summer Workshop Handouts and Links
          • Video Index for Historical Dance Workshops on Vimeo
  • Calendar Highlights 2023
    • Calendar Highlights 2022
      • Calendar Highlights 2021
      • Calendar
        • Calendar Highlights 2019-2020
          • Calendar Highlights 2017-2018
          • Calendar Highlights 2018-2019 Season
        • Historical Dance at Play: Welcome Home!
          • Les Caractères Workshop! July 24-26, 2020 Moves to Zoom
  • Videos
  • Recent Activity
    • How We Revive Baroque Ballets
    • PRESS
      • Archived Press Quotes 1976-2011
      • 2017 Trip to Cuba!
        • Soirée Baroque en Haïti Project
  • Contact Us
  • Donate
    • Friends of Baroque Dance in New York
    • Friends of Baroque Dance in Chicago
  • Projects in Development
  • NYBDC Store
  • Off the Shelf Opera…

The New York Baroque Dance Co.

“A second facet of heaven.”– Mindy Aloff, danceviewtimes.com

Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Dance of the Month News and Videos of Interest

July 22, 2012 by cturocy

Marie-Madeleine Guimard

Dear Friends,

As the hot summer days of July slowly pass, we are looking at next year’s Dance of the Month. Responding to the feedback from students, The Dance of the Month will be a workshop of exploration into different aspects of 18th century dance. Subjects for study include contredanse notation, period gesture for dancers and actors and danceability in Bach French suites aimed towards musicians with questions of tempi and phrasing… to name just a few.

Teachers include Caroline Copeland, Meggi Sweeney Smith, Catherine Turocy, Ani Udovicki and Seth Williams. These teachers are not only dancers in our company but they hold (or will hold) advanced degrees from Sarah Lawrence, Columbia University and Barnard College. In the past we have had guest teachers Beatrice Massin, Thomas Baird and Carlos Fittante. We hope to continue with inviting guests this year.

Information is forthcoming on our website. We have kept the tuition down to only $15 per class and the time slot will remain 3-4:30pm.

I am very excited about the evolution of the Dance of the Month. Classes will continue to be open. It is vital to any form that a mixture of people participate. Professional performing artists and teachers from all fields are welcome as well as the passionate amateur dancer. Writers, visual artists, critics and social dancers from any era are encouraged to attend.

Ages 10 to 100 can take the class. If your movement capabilities are limited, please watch and enrich us by participating in the discussion.

Looking forward to seeing you on my dance card!

Catherine Turocy, Artistic Director

CAROLINE COPELAND TEACHES SATURDAY, AUGUST 4TH DANCE OF THE MONTH

La Chaine, a most beautiful contredanse, is the perfect metaphor for our workshops. Be a link in the chain of our cultural history and click this link to the Early Dance Network:

http://www.early-dance.de/en/content/6456-la-chaine

Download the dance on your Ipad or print out the pages and come to class.  Caroline will teach you how to decipher this published dance from 1706 which was imported from London to the French court of Louis XIV.  It has delighted both sides of the Channel for centuries. Perhaps one of our readers can answer this next question, is it possible this collection of dances was still in vogue when Mr. Darcy was dancing in Jane Austen’s book? The answer will be revealed at the class!
Details for the Dance of the Month
Saturday, August 4th from 3-4:30
Cost: $15, no need to register, just pay at the door
Location: Mark Morris Dance Center
3 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn
Directions: http://markmorrisdancegroup.org/contact/directions

MARK MORRIS DANCE CENTER OPEN HOUSE, SEPTEMBER 8th

AND DANCE OF THE MONTH

In the spirit of “tasting dance” for the Open House, CATHERINE TUROCY will bring the Dance of the Month to the open house.  She will teach concepts of the body and movement from Da Vinci to Cahusac to Austin, spanning 5 centuries of thought of the body in motion which are still in practice today. She will focus these principles through teaching a short comic dance for a Zani inspired by her work with Gregorio Lambranzi’s book, The New and Curious School of Theatrical Dancing (1716).

Videos of Interest

1. Mary Anthony: A life in Modern Dance, produced by Tonia Shimin

This video is available on the internet at Dance Horizons:

http://www.dancehorizons.com/store/product.asp?pID=802&cID=18. Y

You can email Tonia  Shimin at shimin@theaterdance.ucsb.edu and order a copy. It is incredibly inspiring and informative as the 65 minute award winning documentary takes you from 1917 to the present and one sees the world of Mary Anthony, a journey of a modern dance visionary spanning the 20th and 21st centuries who is still teaching and still offering scholarships to deserving young dancers.

2. Baroque Dance Unmasked: Workshop to Performance which is advertised on this website is still available for purchase from Dancetime Publications:

http://dancetimepublications.com/products/baroque-dance-unmasked/

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Like this:

Like Loading...

Related

Posted in General News | 1 Comment

One Response

  1. on January 6, 2013 at 6:07 pm January Events « The New York Baroque Dance Co.

    […] those students who joined Ani Udovicki at the Dance of the Month on January 5th,  you will have a fresh appreciation for watching the Minuet, Sarabande Tancrede, […]



Comments are closed.

  • Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 297 other subscribers
  • Facebook

    Facebook
  • Twitter Updates

      Follow @nybdc

    Blog at WordPress.com.

    WPThemes.


    • Follow Following
      • The New York Baroque Dance Co.
      • Join 166 other followers
      • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
      • The New York Baroque Dance Co.
      • Customize
      • Follow Following
      • Sign up
      • Log in
      • Copy shortlink
      • Report this content
      • View post in Reader
      • Manage subscriptions
      • Collapse this bar
     

    Loading Comments...
     

    You must be logged in to post a comment.

      %d bloggers like this: