Seven Awards in 2017!

December 14, 2017 by cturocy

Cast and Crew for Le Temple de la Gloire not including orchestra and chorus.

photo by Frank Wing

Dear Friends,

This has been an amazing year of accomplishments for The New York Baroque Dance Company.

Seven Awards in Recognition of Artistic Excellence

We won 3 prizes and we are waiting on another nomination. This recognition is for a stellar production of the modern day premiere of Le Temple de la Gloire by Jean Philippe Rameau, in competion with all styles of music and dance for these awards.

1. and 2. First prizes in categories of Choreography and Opera from Best of the Bay https://nybaroquedance.org/2017/09/27/won-first-prize-for-opera-and-for-dance/

3. Bachtrack International prize https://nybaroquedance.org/2017/07/17/bachtrack-international-opera-prize-from-the-uk-we-won/

4. National Endowment for the Arts Award to support our summer workshop in Seattle, June of 2017.

5. The Artistic Excellence Programming grant from San Jose State University was awarded to our company last month for pre-workshop costs associated with our summer workshop planning and development. Click here for more information on our workshop, Historical Dance at Play: https://nybaroquedance.org/san-jose-summer-historical-dance-weekend-august-2-5-2018/

6. Mariel McEwen, our producer and dance camera director for Harmony of the Spheres, received a grant award from New Mexico Women in Film this past fall to attend the 2017 Pleiades National Planetarium Conference in St. Louis.

7. Supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Howard Gilman Foundation, the New York Baroque Dance Company was the first historical dance company invited to perform and teach in Cuba when political relations were good in February, 2017.

Historical Trip to Cuba

Thank you to those individuals who donated to our GiveGab campaign to help us close the gap between government funding and actual costs. We performed at the Esteban Salas Early Music Festival in Havana and taught a 3 day workshop at Acosta Danza.

From Carlos Acosta: “The joy with which the dancers have assumed your teachings will help us in our effort to create a company that embraces the whole dance, without distinction of epochs and styles, in search for a unique and beautiful result.”

Groundbreaking Workshops

With support from fundraising, tuition and the NEA Art Works, Millicent Hodson and Catherine Turocy conducted a summer workshop exploring Nijinsky’s notations for a sarabande to music of Bach. The exploration began in Seattle then continued at the NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts.

Millicent Hodson and Catherine Turocy: Conversation on video with illustrations, by Mariel McEwan https://vimeo.com/channels/nybaroquedancesbhd/241610577

Nijinsky’s Abandoned Saraband workshop at CBA consisted of volunteer dancers helping our team (Catherine Turocy, Millicent Hodson, Kenneth Archer and Claudia Jeschke with assistance by Doug Fullington) to sketch out the choreography. These dancers included: Molissa Fenley, Holly Farmer, Tyler Gilstrap, Nicole Duffy Robertson, Julia Bengsston, Julian Donahue, Caroline Copeland, Rachel List, Carly Fox Horton, Meggi Sweeney Smith, Patricia Beaman, Andrew Trego, Matthew Ting, Kaz Hiruma, Kristin Foote, Kyle Bukhari.

New Video Page on Website

We updated our website and now have a Video Page. See our NYBDC trailer, The Making of a Modern Day Premiere, Artist Spotlight on Catherine Turocy (Artistic Director) and more: https://nybaroquedance.org/videos/

Our teaching videos from our summer workshops 2012 until the present, recorded and edited by Mariel McEwen. NYBDC is first in the field of historical dance to offer documentation of class explorations into areas of interest rarely explored and now offered free to the public on our online vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/channels/nybaroquedancesbhd/videos

Pajarito Environmental Education Center and Planetarium, Los Alamos

… and The New York Baroque Dance Company are partners in creating a dome show, Harmony of the Spheres: Dance, Astronomy, Music and Mathematics. Click here for the full story and our online campaign:https://www.givegab.com/nonprofits/the-new-york-baroque-dance-company/campaigns/harmony-of-the-spheres

“Mind the Gap!” …as they say in the London metro system.

The greatest challenge to our company is finding money for general operating support. Administration, marketing and development, maintenance /updates to websites and mailing lists, costume maintenance, etc.…all these costs are partially paid by project budgets but there is a gap of $10,000. Please support our important work in Dance and help us close the gap by donating with an end of year tax deductible contribution. 2016/2017 was our 40^th anniversary season. A contribution of $40 or more would be deeply appreciated. If you have already donated this fall to the NYBDC, thank you for supporting us! Donate

Our Associate Directors, Caroline Copeland and Sarah Edgar, joined the company in the late 90’s as young dancers. Thank you so much for all you have done and thank you James Richman, our music director, for being by my side since the beginning!

Catherine Turocy, co-founder and Artistic Director