The New York Baroque Dance Co.

September 13, 14, 20, and 21: Julia Bengtsson, choreographer for Radamisto by G. F. Handel with Opera Essentia. Patrick Pride and Adelle Lorraine, NYBDC dancers https://www.operaessentia.org/

September 21, 5-7pm: An Uptown Ball – Dancing the Revolution Join The New York Baroque Dance Company for a costume ball at United Palace Theater! Celebrate American artists like African-American composer Francis Johnson. Enjoy community, live period music, dance, and costumes. Dances will be taught at the ball, with more opportunities at NYBDC workshops on September 6 and 13 via Zoom, and in person at The Morris-Jumel Mansion on September 20. (see our website: nybaroquedance.org). Whether dancing or watching, be part of a magical evening. This ball crowns the Crackalackin’ Festival. Tickets: $25 – $30. Location: United Palace Theater, 4140 Broadway at 175th St, New York, NY 10033.

October 16 – 18 EMA SUMMIT: Julia Bengtsson and Julie Andrijeski will explore R.A. Feuillet’s “Sarabande pour femme,” examining its components to show how the two art forms connect. They will analyze the music and dance movements, followed by a movement session for participants to engage with the gestures and phrases of the dance. The event will end with a demonstration featuring castanets! More info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GSEVfCucD5pXb39YPecZjSpMfXapA_sNOjGgm3DcMFI/edit?tab=t.0

Dec 11-12th, 2025: International Pierre Rameau Conference which will be held in Paris, Bibliothèque La Grange-Fleuret, on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 December. Catherine Turocy is invited to speak about her work with Rameau’s treatises and how she employs his principles in her reconstructions.

December 18: Ballerinas of the Baroque at 1:15pm Gotham Early Music Scene, Inc. and The New York Baroque Dance Company at St. Malachy’s Church – The Actors’ Chapel (239 West 49th Street, New York, NY 10019) More information click here.

Feb 18:  Julia Bengtsson invited to hold a presentation with Alan Jones at Centre Nationale de Danse. They were awarded a grant from the French Ministry of Culture through The Centre National de la Danse which supported their research celebrating Lafayette and the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States.

Saturday, March 14, 2026  at 7:30pm The New York Baroque Dance Company joins Dallas Bach Society for a splendid evening of opera-ballet featuring the one-act Apollon, La Nuit, et Comus by Nicolas Bernier. Haley Sicking as La Nuit (Night) and Matthieu Peyregne as Apollo, sing in this paean to the patroness of the “Nights at Sceaux”, the Duchesse de Guise, perhaps the richest lady in France. She was renowned as an insomniac, and thus is portrayed as Night, contrasted with Apollo, the sun or Day – their conflict is resolved by Comus, god of festivals, who resolves the issue by offering the eternal celebrations of the modern-day Minerva, as the dutchess is called in the ballet. https://www.dallasbach.org/masterworks-series

May 16 in Philadelphia: NYBDC with Tempesta de Mare, The Most Favourite Music.  European-trained musicians, American political elites, theater performers, and denizens of the French colonies all performed shoulder to shoulder in an 18th-century Philadelphia that saw a lively and burgeoning music scene after the relaxation of cultural restrictions enforced during the Revolutionary War. From familiar Scottish Airs to dance-numbers and chamber music, this re-creation of a “City Concert” offers an immersive experience of living history, featuring music from Philadelphia’s stages and ballrooms popular at the time. Part of Soundtrack of Independence, a collaborative celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. https://tempestadimare.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SVQ000002w0bB2AQ

May 17 in Philadelphia: Frank’s Bugle pays homage to the music and dances composed and performed by Francis Johnson. Hailed as the “best musicians the city can furnish,” (The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 12, 1822), Johnson was  a monumental figure in American musical life from the 1820s through the 1840s. A free Black man, the Philadelphia native witnessed the near eradication of legal slavery and mass emigration to Philadelphia from St. Domingue (modern Haiti) as a consequence of the Haitian Revolution. Part of Soundtrack of Independence, a collaborative celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. https://tempestadimare.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SVQ000002w10z2AA

May TBD Dallas Bach Society and the Lafayette Musicians with The New York Baroque Dance Company present Dances of Lafayette.

May 29 and 30: Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi with eight dancers of the NYBDC and Ars Lyrica Houston. Conductor: Matthew Dirst. Catherine Turocy, stage director/choreographer, conceives the action in the time period when the opera was first revived in Paris on stage in 1911 and then presented in NYC in 1912 with World War I on the horizon. https://www.arslyricahouston.org/orfeo

July: Historical Movement Archive project and workshop. More details to come

August Historical Dance at Play, TBA

September 21:  Edinburgh workshop/ball  with Catherine Turocy as guest teacher and the Historical Dance Society

Highlights from the Beginning of 2025

February 22, 2025: Workshop at Ballet Hispanico, 167 West 89th Street, NYC. Caroline Copeland will share her research and teach dances of Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780), a British composer, writer and abolitionist from London who signed his music, “African composer.”  Julia Bengtsson who was recently in Paris with Alan Jones under the auspices of the Centre Nationale de Danse, will teach and share their work on the dances of Francis Johnson (1792-1844), perhaps the first African American composer to ever publish his music and tour with his dance band in Europe. An Afternoon of Dancing Workshop

March 9, 2025: Good Shepherd Church, 152 West 66th Street, NYC (near Lincoln Center) 4:30 to 6:30pm, Costumes admired but not required. An afternoon of refreshments, diversions, and entertainment with live music from Music of the Regiment, with : Dominic Giardino, clarinet, Shelby Yamin, violin, Nathan Whittaker, cello. Dancing, and demonstrations from the NYBDC members include Julia Bengtsson, Claudio Caverni, Julian Donahue, Sam Humphreys, Adelle Lorraine, Irenie Melin-Gommper, Patrick Pride and Alexis Silver. This special event features dance music by two African composers of the 18th and 19th centuries, Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) and Francis Johnson (1792-1844). Be an observer or participate! An Afternoon of Dancing

March 16, 2025:  at 3pm, Moody Performance Hall in Dallas, Texas

The Baroque – Carnatic Connection. This unique artistic conversation bridging eastern and western classical dance and music from the Baroque era comes to Dallas. The Indian dance company Silambam Houston joins the Dallas Bach Society and the New York Baroque Dance Company in a program of cross-cultural exploration of the commonalities and distinct flavors of Western baroque and South Indian classical music and dance traditions. Tickets: Buy Tickets

March 30, 2025: Bach Figures by Catherine Turocy to be performed by students of the Dance Academy from the Colburn School in Los Angeles at LA Dance Project, Benjamin Millepied, director. Instagram Post

May 23, 24. 30 and June 1: Julia Bengtsson is choreographing Opera Essentia’s New One-Hour Distillation of Handel’s Radamisto from 1720 entitled, The Queen’s Heart. Produced by Opera Essentia, Patrick Pride and Adelle Lorraine will be dancing. Buy Tickets

May 27, 2025 Bloomington Early Music Festival: LINK There will be a screening of Francis Johnson’s New Cotillions, in Honor of Our Illustrious Guest General Lafayette plus a pre-talk discussion with Julia Bengtsson at 5pm.The program is available virtually for a couple weeks.

.June 6-8, 2025: Emperor of the Moon in San Francisco with Dance Through Time and Nash Baroque Ensemble featuring Julia Bengtsson! Buy Tickets

June 8-15, 2025 The Boston Early Music Festival: Catch our dancers Julian Donahue, Junichi Fukuda Irenie Melin-Gompper and Alexis Silver dancing in the opera! Tell Me More!

June 26-28, 2025: The Francis Johnson/ Lafayette project comes to Hillwood Museum and Gardens in Washington D.C. ! Francis Johnson’s New Cotillions In Honour of Our Illustrious Guest General Lafayette More Information