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The New York Baroque Dance Company Presents: NIJINSKY’S JEUX
Saturday, October 7th at Mark Morris Dance Center
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Special Workshop by Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer
Dance and design team from London and reconstructors of this lost ballet
Where: Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette in Brooklyn
When: Part I, 3:30-4:30 Power Point Lecture on dance and design elements of Jeux by Kenneth Archer, followed by cultural context of Jeux by Millicent Hodson.
Part II, 4:45-6:30 in STUDIO B, Practical class learning choreography re-imagined by Hodson
DESCRIPTION: Nijinsky’s 1913 ballet, Jeux, is credited as the first ballet performed in modern dress, the first to use the language of sport, the first to explore same sex attraction, and the first to protest war.
It depicts athletic and amorous games under threat by premonitions of World War I and it is a ballet of manners that, not unlike its Baroque predecessors, reveals social mores through codified gestures. After working with Hodson at the NYBDC summer workshop, Turocy feels experiencing Hodson’s approach to reconstruction could be a revelation to students of Baroque dance which is why Hodson has been invited to October’s Dance of the Month.
Nijinsky started Jeux in London in the summer of 1912 while on tour with the Ballets Russes. Observing artists and intellectuals in Bloomsbury Square, a pleasure garden, he developed the idea of a tennis game. The scenario is based on the artist Duncan Grant and two young women, the Stephens sisters, who were soon to be known as the writer, Virginia Woolf, and the modernist painter, Vanessa Bell.
Participants can attend both the Power Point Presentation and the Class where they will be dancing Jeux excerpts or choose to do one or the other. Participants from Part I will be able to watch Part II if they do not wish to dance.
Must Pre- Register for Class: Please email cturocy@gmail.com to register for the class.The class size is limited to 30 students.
Tuition is a flat rate of $30 whether you take one or both classes. Instructions on payment will be given after you have registered.
Please call Catherine Turocy at 214-563-8978 if you have any questions.
We are grateful to The New York Baroque Dance Company and to Mark Morris Dance Center for sponsoring this special event and rare opportunity.
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Cannot attend, but you would like to support more workshops like this? Donate $30 to The New York Baroque Dance Company by clicking HERE.
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