The New York Baroque Dance Co.

Thoughts from Sarah Edgar

Sarah Edgar to dance a new interpretation of Venus

“I’ve been dancing my reconstruction of Anthony L’Abbé’s “Passacaglia of Venüs &Adonis” (1725) for three years, and I’ve developed an intimate relationship to the choreography. After performing it many times in a more “authentic” form with the original music played on period instruments, I decided to find out what would happen to the choreography if I took it out of its original musical context. I asked the new music and jazz composer Florian Rynkowski to work with me to create a new composition to accompany the dance. Florian worked closely with the structure of the original music as well as with the emotional landscape that I created for this dance. This is an experiment and an effort to discover more within choreography and to hopefully encourage the audience to look at baroque dance in a new way.”        Link to tickets: http://www.92y.org/Uptown/Event/Baroque-Ball.aspx

Dancers from Hofstra University to appear on Baroque Ball Potpourri in new choreography by Rachel List conceived in the Baroque style to music by Bach and Handel