August 8-11 Dance Studies Association Conference in Chicago
Catherine Turocy, Jane Peck, Marcea Daiter, and Sarah Edgar offer a joint workshop. Participants will physically experience the changes to popular French Contradances (longways and quadrilles) as they first entered the USA, then traveled to the Creole people of French Haiti, next the French Indian Metis of the Red River Valley of Minnesota and Canada, and finally to contemporary U.S. social life. Dances will include a French 18th c. contredanse with baroque steps, the Haitian Affranchi, a Metis Jigged Quadrille, and the most recent version of contradance in American nightclubs. This experience is open to conference attendees on August 10 at 2:30 in the Ballroom.
September 7, Saturday, 3:30-5:30 at Mark Morris Dance Center: Dance of the Month with Catherine Turocy and Isaac Hutton on violin. Celebrating our trip to Versailles in 2020, we will be dancing a tambourin from Jean Marie Leclair’s Scylla et Glaucus (Act V).
Sept 20, Friday in Houston with Ars Lyrica Houston. A program of instrumental suites from two vibrantly colorful French Baroque operas, both first seen at the Palais-Royal in Paris. Period choreography and period instruments recreate a refined artform that was de rigueur throughout Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. André Campra, Suite from Hésione (ed. John Powell) and Jean-Philippe Rameau, Suites from Les Indes Galantes More information: https://my.thehobbycenter.org/single/PSDetail.aspx?psn=3561
October 5, Saturday Ani Udovicki continues Dance of the Month with tambourin the Tambourin, Isaac Hutton on violin.
October 25-26 and 27 Martial Prowess: Masculinity as expressed through movement in dance and martial arts. (more info on schedule and location coming soon)
The Historical Movement Archive presents a conference on the exploration of cultural movement arts. A unique cross-section of the old and new worlds, examined through an interdisciplinary look at the culture of masculinity through the disciplines of dance and marital arts. Beginning with a 16 th century Italian fencing treatise, the analysis and reconstruction of movement from this text will be presented. This will include the considerations and problems encountered in attempting to comprehend cultural movement from that historical period. This particular work was selected as it allowed a comparison between an contemporary English translation published 24 years later and the original Italian text. A further analysis into a sword dance from a dance treatise of that era which incorporates martial movement via cutting technique adds to our compression of the importance of the physical self-control required in the performance of masculinity. In contrast, traditional Native American dance will also be included in this examination of cultural movement arts, which are a window into masculine roles expressed through martial movement. Details to follow closer to the date.
November 2, Saturday, Mark Morris Dance Center Dance of the Month. Alexis Silver teaches the Passacaille from Rameau’s Le Temple de la Gloire. Live music.
November 21 and 23, John Blow’s Venus and Adonis at The Corcoran Gallery, in Washington, DC and November 22, 2019 at Museo del Barrio, New York City. As part of the Young Artists Program, NYBDC dancer Julia Bengtsson will choreograph this charming work. NYBDC dancer Roberto Lara will join her! See Opera Lafayette (http://operalafayette.org/) for more details:
December 7 Saturday, Mark Morris Dance Center Dance of the Month Meggi Sweeney Smith continues with the Passacaille.
January 4 , Saturday, Mark Morris Dance Center Dance of the Month Ani Udovicki teaches the Sarabande from Issee, music by Destouches.
February 1, Saturday, Mark Morris Dance Center Dance of the Month Ani Udovicki continues with the Sarabande from Issee, music by Destouches.
March 7, Saturday, Mark Morris Dance Center Dance of the Month Caroline Copeland teaches the forlana from Andre Campra’s (1660-1744) opera, Le Carnival de Venise.
April 4 Dance of the Month TBA
April: Scylla et Glaucus by Jean Marie Leclair
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE, All performances to be held at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
Wednesday April 15 @ 7 pm | Herst Theatre, San Francisco
Friday April 17 @ 7 pm | Herbst Theatre, San Francisco*
Saturday April 18 @ 7 pm | Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
Sunday April 19 @ 3 pm | Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
https://philharmonia.org/2019-2020-season/scylla-et-glaucus/
At Versailles on April 25 and 26! More information
May 2 Saturday, Mark Morris Dance Center Dance of the Month. Meggi Sweeney Smith teaches the Passacaille from Jean Marie Leclair’s Scylla et Glaucus.
June 6 Saturday, Mark Morris Dance Center Dance of the Month) Meggi continues with the Passacaille.
June 25-28: The Characters/ Diversity and Transformation (Location in NYC TBA) Exploring A master work of historical significance, Les Caractères de la Danse (1715) Postponed for NYC
July 4: Dance of the Month on ZOOM, contact cturocy@gmail.com for the link and more information
July 11: Hillwood French Festival! CANCELED
July 24-26 Les Caracteres in Dallas July 24-26 an in studio experience!
August 1: Dance of the Month on ZOOM, contact cturocy@gmail.com for the link and more information. The class is from 5-6pm Eastern Time.
August First and Second Weekends: Historical Dance at Play: Welcome Home
August 6-9: Historical Dance at Play: Crossing Borders, a workshop presented in collaboration with ODC in San Francisco! Postponed until 2021.
The New York Baroque Dance Co. 